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  • Published: 31 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9781506723785
  • Imprint: Dark Horse Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 56
  • RRP: $32.99

Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins--Nott the Brave



Veth Brenatto doesn’t have an exciting life, but she likes it that way. Unlike her childhood, it’s safe. Predictable. And her husband and son love her almost as fiercely as she loves them. But Veth’s cozy existence is turned on its head when she and her family are captured by raiders. In order to save them, Veth will commit an atrocity that will sever her from all that she loves––maybe forever––and lead her to become Nott the Brave of the Mighty Nein.

Celebrated writer Sam Maggs (Captain Marvel, The Unstoppable Wasp) is joined by Critical Role cast members Matthew Mercer and Sam Riegel, with the expert art of William Kirkby (Rat Queens) and colors by Eren Angliolini (Justice League: Last Ride), with letters from Ariana Maher (Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins) for a heartbreaking look at a halfling’s end and a goblin’s beginning.

When you become that which you fear most, how do you carry on?

Veth Brenatto doesn’t have an exciting life, but she likes it that way. Unlike her childhood, it’s safe. Predictable. And her husband and son love her almost as fiercely as she loves them. But Veth’s cozy existence is turned on its head when she and her family are captured by raiders. In order to save them, Veth will commit an atrocity that will sever her from all that she loves––maybe forever––and lead her to become Nott the Brave of the Mighty Nein.

Celebrated writer Sam Maggs (Captain Marvel, The Unstoppable Wasp) is joined by Critical Role cast members Matthew Mercer and Sam Riegel, with the expert art of William Kirkby (Rat Queens) and colors by Eren Angliolini (Justice League: Last Ride), with letters from Ariana Maher (Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins) for a heartbreaking look at a halfling’s end and a goblin’s beginning.

  • Published: 31 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9781506723785
  • Imprint: Dark Horse Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 56
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Sam Maggs

Sam Maggs is a bestselling writer of books, comics, and video games, including Marvel Action: Captain Marvel, The Unstoppable Wasp: Built On Hope, Tell No Tales, and Marvel's Spider-Man. You can usually find her as host at comic conventions and for geeky networks like the Nerdist. A Canadian in Los Angeles, she misses Coffee Crisp and bagged milk.

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Praise for Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins--Nott the Brave

“Over the course of my work as a critic, I often have to write about unpleasant things, be they creators who step over the line, companies who fail marginalized communities, or, more simply, sometimes just bad comics. Sometimes, though, I get to write about things like this; artifacts of comics creation that are lavished with care and aimed at a niche audience out of nothing more than love of the work therein and the craft of making them. Reading these comics for the first time in a book like this has fundamentally added to my experience of them; the weight of it in my hands, the feel of those pages against my fingers, all of it.”–WomenWriteAboutComics, re: Critical Role Vox Machina Origins Library Edition HC