there is no paywall. Just an account wall

source: I've been reading the comic for a year or so now

Definitely hoping that in whatever Movie/Anime/TV series they make of this, that they get Jim Carrey to voice the AI

They didn't even let me look at the first panel in the first chapter before I hit the paywall.

Edit: Maybe that's a little unfair, you can't read the book or listen to the audiobook without paying, either. There isn't really an expectation that content should be completely free. So I should have expected something like that, but maybe it could have let me see some of it before prompting me to log in/make an account? Still, it's annoying.

Why does Carl look like he is about 17 years old in this though......

How does the scrolling nature of the webtoon translate to the page? Like this panel is really tall and skinny, is there a lot of white page left over or what?

ew, longstrip.

its either paged comics or nothing for me.

Just bought volume one of the graphic novel. Hoping to have it signed at an upcoming con!

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Bouncing off your first idea and last sentence, I wonder if the first 10 books would be Dungeon Crawler Carl and the next however-many books would be Dungeon Crawler Donut (or similar). The fans would be there for it.

Doesn't have to be Donut, could be an entire other species. I just listened to a part where they said the fantasy dungeon they are in now is not the only kind, they have had sci-fi so that may be a direction for a spinoff to go.

Depends on the kind of watch. Like you said, smartwatches aren't necessarily going to be reliable. Most analogue watches don't keep date. Those that do, might be affected by the stasis between floors. It doesn't seem like most people wait until last minute to cross to different floors. Watches could also break, there's lots of fighting, so I think people have more important things to focus on, other than dates.

I'm not so far ahead of you that I can say anything you don't already know. But regarding your theories:

Carl killed

I had this one guessed since about book 3. Before Book 1 Donut was just a cat. Now she's fully capable of being a citizen of the universe. My take on this theory is the whole point is for her to see that she doesn't need a human (Bea or Carl or anyone). I think Dinniman hinted at this by making her stronger in a few ways.

The Deal

I feel like this is the real copout here. Dinniman wants to call it quits after book 10 so he has them take a deal. There's something that happens in Book 6 that hints to that (Dinniman burnout) but I don't want to believe it. I'll spoiler tag it. If you click it, you'll see it's a weak connection. But some people prefer to read blind, so, take my word it's a weak connection or click, up to you.

Borant collapse

I won't really comment on this one, mainly because I don't like it. So, what, they just kinda end the crawl? I don't think anybody would like that. Plus, if a big company is about to go under, another company can just buy it up. I don't see why that wouldn't happen.

Bouncing off your first idea and last sentence, I wonder if the first 10 books would be Dungeon Crawler Carl and the next however-many books would be Dungeon Crawler Donut (or similar). The fans would be there for it.

So the second one just plays into the watch thing. If somebody had a watch, they could set the record straight.

You could be onto something with time zones. Carl and Donut were in Seattle when they went down the stairs. But, where was Floor 1 physically? It could have been under Africa for all we know. Since each previous floor collapses, the "floors" could be all over the place. GPS wouldn't work in the dungeon, so it's not like an iPhone would say "hey you're in Africa now, would you like to update your time/date settings?" (Or rather I think it would do that automatically.)

As far as the rate of travel through floors, there's no rule saying that there has to be a consistent 1-2 floors per book. There's also no rule that they have to progress through each one in order.

I am on book 5 and I see it going 3 ways.

The copout : Carl is killed. Worst ending. Maybe Donuts goes out with him but with Carl dead her world shatters.

The Deal: Carl and Donut take a deal like it seems many people do on lower floors.

The next collapse: We know the current show runner is in dire straights and they fully collapse before the crawl finishes. With Carl's interactions with the Skull Empire and what Donut is up to the wider galactic community seems less stable then we are lead to believe.

I see the second one happening to close out the book cleanly and allow for a new series should Matt decide on an offshoot.

First thing that comes to mind to me is the whole stasis thing that can happen if you cross the stairs too early. There are also a lot of crawlers from across the world, so if we go by regular Earth timekeeping standards, time zones throw a wrench in the spokes.

Then there’s the overall stress and trauma of it all. By the time someone felt stable enough to start keeping time, they may have already forgotten what time it was when it all started. Likely, there’d be many different accounts of what the time actually is, so the “real” date is probably not fully known to the crawlers.

I had never even heard of this series, until I stayed at my sister's last week, where I discovered and binged the first 5 books across 7 days.

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This is great lol!

Thank you. I was inspired by the memes at TenForward

Ooooh, this is a great answer.

John de Lancie

Personally, I kind of love the idea of Eugene Levy. He'd just be so delightfully out of place but also absolutely perfect for a Mordecai... Or, on the other end of the spectrum, Tommy Chong.

Ohhhh, disgusting

sorry. I meant big red is a red colored cream soda. yoohoo is indeed chocolate.

Yoohoo? That was chocolate