Die Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker

Words can't describe how much I love this comic series. I was hooked after just a few pages due to the beautiful art and unique page layout. If you are a fan of fantasy (especially D&D) you will LOVE this book. Not only is Stephanie Hans' art mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful, but Kieron Gillen's writing is brilliant. There are so many layers to the story. The unique character classes are so fresh and portrayed masterfully. Read this book!!!

Excellent graphic novel. I was initially concerned about adding this to my classroom collection because of the title and some content but after pre-reading it, I believe it is absolutely appropriate for my liberal-minded high school students (maybe grade 10+). Some mentions of sex but no actual sex scenes or nudity, a lot of f-bombs but in ways students use them themselves, and the title is not die-death but die-dice. Violence is actually pretty minimal, surprisingly. Most of the baddies are monsters and there's really not that much gore at all. Maybe a 3/10 as there is blood but no actual images of carving up monsters just the spray around the character doing the slaying. A LGBT friendly graphic novel with POC well represented.

As someone who hasn’t played many RPGs it took a minute to adjust to this story. Many things were happening but I didn’t feel the weight of it until chapter 3, and that’s when it started to come together. This book is definitely something you would enjoy all the way through the second time. Kieron Gillen touches on many themes and develops each character wonderfully. The art is also a big standout. Stephanie Hans creates beautiful images and really helps immerse the reader into the story. 9/10 👍🏽

Amazing comic, very dark. This is the first of four collections. I believe the fourth is the last or at least the most current. Just got the second and planning on getting the rest as well.

This series is amazing. It's dark and gritty. The pain the characters experience at the things they did as kids and carried with them is well portrayed. The art is amazing. Several times I stopped reading just to look at the amazing pages. Can't wait to read the rest have already pre-ordered all the ones I don't have.

Picked this up on a whim and immediately became obsessed. The story and the artwork is 10/10. Very sad to find out it’s only 4 books though but ordered all of them immediately after finishing this one.

This graphic novel takes the trope of modern characters entering a fantasy world and turns it on its head, in a good way. Mature, dark and gritty characters that really capture the transition from teenage gamer to adults who are various levels of broken; great nods to some well known fantasy standards and very interesting worldbuilding. Highly recommend for any gamer or any fan of great writing and art.

I want to preface this- the comic itself is more than deserving of five stars. A wonderful critique of edgelordism illustrated beautifully. Really hope to get a lot more of this eventually However, a brand new graphic novel shouldn’t be falling out of its binding. A problem I’ve had a few times with image

Kieron Gillen frappe encore! Pour faire simple, DIE, c'est Jumanji, Donjons et Dragons et un soupçon de "Ca" (pour le côté "on doit refaire en tant qu'adultes ce qu'on a fait gamins) mixé dans le respect des ingrédients pour avoir un plat de qualité supérieure. Les illustrations de Stephanie Hans sont magnifiques et subliment totalement l'histoire. N'oubliez pas : Un dragon, c'est cool, jusqu'à ce qu'on en rencontre un.

I heard about this through Kinda Funny's We Have Cool Friends where Greg talks to the author about this and his other projects. I don't normally read comics, but the pitch in the episode was great and I knew I had to see how they blended a more darker and mature Jumanji with Dungeons and Dragons. I'll definitely will be purchasing future volumes to see where this adventure takes us.

Eine sehr düstere fast schon nihilistische Story, die mal nicht die klassischen Helden von Marvel oder DC zeigt.

Everyone who's a fan of role play shoul read this

Uma história não desconhecida para nós que nascemos na década de oitenta, ou mesmo os mais novos que encontram um paralelo desse tipo de aventura em filmes como Jumanji. Die é uma história que prima emoções conflitantes e faz um excelente trabalho em dar vida a cada um de seus protagonistas de forma única.