Joshua Malbin

The Guild, Felicia Day’s Web series about online gamers, has proved deservedly popular, so it only makes sense to bring it to comics. Day is in the Joss Whedon orbit (having starred in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog plus a couple of episodes of Dollhouse), Whedon has been doing at least as many comics as TV shows lately—certainly more comics in the years between Serenity and Dollhouse—and The Guild the comic book is edited by Whedon’s long-time editor at Dark Horse. Plus there must be some overlap between comic-book buyers and fans of Web series about online gamers. Right?

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I hope so. I was the first person to buy a copy when I went to the comic book store yesterday, and the owner didn’t seem optimistic that anyone else would want one.

Day isn’t just reiterating the plots of the Web series in comic book form, incidentally. The comic is starting as a kind of origin story, in which Cyd discovers the joy of gaming and the Knights of Good begin to form. Her understated humor doesn’t quite translate to the static page yet, but it’s enjoyable enough, and I want her to succeed.

Preview below.

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