Vault Comics Unleashes Webnovel Powerhouses, Time-Travel Bounty Hunters, and a "Meth War" for September 2026

Vault Comics is dropping a September 2026 slate packed with fan-favorite returns and intriguing new ventures, leaning heavily into the booming web-serial adaptation trend. Headlining the month is the highly anticipated Dungeon Crawler Carl Volume 2 graphic novel. This New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher's Weekly bestseller continues Carl and Princess Donut's wild, often unhinged, ride through a sadistic alien game show. Get ready for the birth of the Goblin Copper Chopper and an all-out meth war between Goblins and Llamas. If you thought Volume 1 was a chaotic masterpiece, buckle up for more floors, more danger, and certainly more absurdity. Matt Dinniman's original series has a rabid following, and this graphic novel adaptation by Tevagah and Laurel Pursuit Studio clearly understands the assignment.

Meanwhile, a brand-new series, Project Perseus #1, launches to capture the current zeitgeist for time-traveling bounty hunters. Creators Jack Mulqueen (Nightlife Noir) and Edison Neo (TMNT, Godzilla) introduce Slug Stephens, a disgraced cryptid hunter. He's got to sober up from a decade-long bender and track down an all-too-familiar friend-turned-foe who vanished with a time-traveling apparatus. Imagine a buddy cop movie where one buddy is wasted and the other is a fugitive jumping through time. With legendary cover artists like Esad Ribíc, Brett Bean, and Jorge Corona lending their talent, this looks like a stylish, hilarious, and action-packed adventure across treacherous jungles, frozen oceans, and deadly dive bars.

Vault also continues its strong push into adapting massive online hits. The Primal Hunter returns with Volume 2 of its graphic novel adaptation, building on over 30 million Webtoon reads. Fans will follow Jake, an average office worker turned survivor, through an alchemical Dungeon Challenge, racing against poison. He Who Fights With Monsters Novel HC Volume 3 arrives, a multi-million copy bestselling LitRPG epic lauded by none other than Dungeon Crawler Carl author Matt Dinniman himself. And Shadow Slave Novel HC Volume 1, "Child of Shadows," brings one of the most popular web-serials ever to print, boasting over 280 million reads and listens across Webnovel and PocketFM. These series arrive with built-in, massive fanbases, and Vault is clearly betting big on their proven success in the digital space translating to print. This trend of translating popular web-serials into physical comics is a significant one in the industry right now, showing a smart way to tap into existing communities.