Dork Tower
Dork Tower is a webcomic by the British-American cartoonist John Kovalic . The comic is set in the fictional city of Mud Bay, Wisconsin , and revolves around characters whose hobbies are in the fan and geek sectors. Dork Tower anthologies are published in Germany by Feder & Schwert publishing house. The name is based on a Dungeons & Dragons adventure by Judges Guild called "Dark Tower" and its successor "The Legendary Duck Tower" by Paul Jaquays .
content
Recurring topics include role-playing games , LARP and board games , especially Dungeons & Dragons or d20 , comics, trading card games , films, series and books from the fields of fantasy and science fiction as well as computer games and game consoles , especially sports games and PlayStation 2 .
In addition to numerous smaller strips about these topics, there is a framework story that focuses on the relationship between Matt and Gilly.
Characters
Matt McLimore is the main identifier for most of the stories. His favorite game is Warhamster (a reference to the game Warhammer ). After dropping out of his studies and working as a commercial artist, he is currently unemployed. In his spare time he works as a draftsman for his comic The Girl . In the role-playing game of the Mud Bay characters, he is the game master and plans large campaigns that usually come to a quick end due to Igor's style of play. Matt is with Kayleigh, but they are an unequal couple. Matt has two cats.
Igor Olman is a fanboy through and through. He increases in every game and every collecting mania up to self-abandonment. Igor's favorite game is vampires , he usually plays a paladin in the role-playing group. He's corpulent and hates Kayleigh. Plus, he's what is commonly referred to as a munchkin . He owns a gerbil named Wolfgang.
Ken Mills is a software developer and probably the most serious of the chaotic troops. He likes miniatures . In the role play group he plays a cleric. At the moment he is with Sujata, Kayleigh's roommate.
Carson is a muskrat . He loves video games on consoles, but also computer games on his Mac. He has a variety of jobs, including working in an internet café. In the role-playing games he usually plays a thief.
Bill Blyden is the owner of Pegasaurus Games, the local game store. He is the source of all the geek madness in the Mud Bay community.
Gilly Woods can be found in the Gothic sector, but to the disgrace of her brother Walden, she also likes sweet and happy things. She knows Matt through Igor, who wants to pair them up.
Walden Woods is Gilly's brother and the head of the Gothic community in Mud Bay.
Kayleigh works as a journalist in Mud Bay. She's dating Matt, with whom she went to college and elementary school, but doesn't share any of his hobbies other than a penchant for Buffy the Vampire Slayer . She comes from a good family and is rather conservative.
Sujata is Kayleigh's roommate, who is currently with Ken. She has known Kayleigh, Matt and Igor since elementary school.
Maxwell and his wife Claire are fanatical role-players. It is not entirely clear how exactly they relate to the others. Your young son is also developing into an avid gamer, with generation conflicts arising (e.g. AD&D versus D&D ).
Awards
The comic won several Origins Awards in 2001, 2002 and 2003 , including for best game-related regular release and best game-related fictional work.
Web links
- Official website , several times a week with new cartoons (English)