It feels oddly privileged to be a fan of Dungeon Crawler Carl right now. The series is really on the rise: numerous people have talked to me about it out of nowhere recently, and apparently they’re making a TV show. My wife is keen to point out that everyone in my circle is on her down line, including me, and I can’t argue with that. The important thing is that I’m now on book five, and they continue to be awesome. Carl and Donut have […]

Another short one here primarily because the parts I most want to talk about in this story are spoilers. Book three of Dungeon Crawler Carl is top notch. The world continues to expand, the action gets more intense, and Donut and Carl’s relationship (the driving heart of the story) continues to deepen. In book 3 we have an additional confound: Mordecai is temporarily whisked away. Here we get an option for Carl’s role to strengthen, as he’s forced into the adult role keeping his garbage […]

Carl’s Doomsday Scenario continues the saga of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Let’s get the important stuff out of the way: if you liked the first book, you’ll like the second. There’s more of the same stuff featuring Carl and the adorable Princess Donut as they make their way through the complex world of the dungeon. The emotions continue to build, the story matures, and the characters get deeper and continue to move away from the tropes that tend to plague an Isekai-esque thing like this. In […]

I was first introduced to Dungeon Crawler Carl by my wife, squealing with delight and laughter at a dozen hilarious things in the first couple chapters. I was a little hard of a sell for her as I think that a lot of these “normal white redditor-style human gets transferred to video game irl” tend to be very fappy and poorly written. Add in that it’s self-published and that’s a recipe for disaster in my book. The first few chapters of DCC seemed to support this: Carl […]