CD Projekt and Dark Horse have been publishing Witcher comics for years, and the best of them are excellent tales of grumpy monster-hunting and moral-quandarising.
In one of the collections of Witcher comics there's an interview with Borys Pugacz-Muraszkiewicz, a lead writer at CD Projekt Red, where he talks about the influence comics had on the videogames. When the team were coming up with their bible for the first Witcher game, setting down the basics of tone and so on, they decided to give Geralt the abrupt speech patterns of a comic book character. Borys doesn't name names, but Game Geralt always made me think of Wolverine.
The scenes where the therapy witches talk in a mix of esoterica and psychology jargon about"breakthroughs" and"process", applauding as their patients"open up, emotionally", are kind of amusing, though the knotty, sketchy art feels mismatched. A 10-pager packaged into one of Dark Horse's 2023 Free Comic Book Day anthologies, this take on The Princess and the Frog might have made a decent Novigrad sidequest, but doesn't have enough space here.
As well as flirting with the local sorceress, of course, and enduring Dandelion's attempts to drum up business by painting his grubby, squalid work in a more flattering light, papering over the fact everyone's dark secrets come out along the way. What makes The Ballad of Two Wolves better than the comics it follows on from is that Geralt's at his best when his grumpalump outsider act is contrasted with the supporting cast who love him.
Mike Mignola's art graces the covers of a few Witcher comics, though sadly not the interiors. The Hellboy art style would be a perfect fit, and sometimes the internal artists of Witcher comics do sneak in a few Mignola mannerisms. That's especially true of House of Glass, which uses frequent silent panels and close-ups of dead faces as pacing.
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