This book was awesome! It follows the last campaign of a group of friends who bond after what they thought would be a meeting of their school's GSA turns into a D&D group. Snippets of each friend's life are interspersed with the culmination of their final adventure, where they must not only face a powerful foe, but also learn how to open their group to a new member and face their own futures.

I loved everything about this book - the LGBTQ+ nerd representation, the lovely art, the whimsy of the campaign, the heartwarming story about friendship and growing up. It's sure to be relatable to a wide swathe of readers, and it's charming even if it's not personally relatable. I smiled all through reading it!

Thank you to Netgalley and Mad Cave for this ARC.

Look. This is one of those books where it might not be perfect, but to me, as a very specific individual, it cuts home in a way that is so close that I can't help but love it.

It somehow managed to perfectly capture my highschool experience of having the messy and a bit complicated queer friend group!! It knows how important RP characters are, and the joy of TTRPG culture! The art was so incredibly in the style I love, in a soft and expressive style. It genuinely saw right into a lot of things I grew up with, and wrote about them in a way that felt a lot like coming home.

Which was honestly something I loved about it. It captured characters from a range of backgrounds and experiences, and in a few deft strokes really helped you know who they are and the emotional and cultural context they came from. They all felt like adults, in the weird post-college liminal sense, and nothing about them or their lives felt "twee" in a way that often grates on me with stories like this one. It felt so genuine and so earnest and so realistic in terms of capturing the messiness of growing up and figuring yourself out, especially in relation to other people.

I'm genuinely so so fond of this book, and it's a fairly quick read too, so I would def recommend it to other people as a quick nice read.

I adored this story and these characters. This is a cozy story following a group of friends who began a D&D like roleplay campaign in high school, and meet up to finish before they all graduate college. I loved the diversity in the characters, and enjoyed how we got to see a snippet into each character's life outside of the game. The art was beautiful, and the campaign itself was full of fun and adventure. I am looking forward to picking up the next instalment in this series, and I would definitely recommend this book!

A super cute D&D story about a group of friend who started a campaign in high school and are now getting together as adults to finish it. The story was fast paced, but pleasant and the art was extremely well done!

Thank you, Diamond Book Distributors, for allowing me to read The Last Session Vol. 1: Roll for Initiative early!

I really enjoyed this queer graphic novel. The art was beautiful, the plot simple, but engaging, the characters were well fleshed-out and mostly likeable. Cassandra was definitely a stand-out for me!

I loved this more than I can form into words!
As someone who has always been interested in DND and is finally getting to play (plus enjoying watching Dimension 20 and Critical Role), this graphic novel was everything and more. I adored seeing the flashbacks to their high school life and becoming the group and their lives forming.
Honestly, the fantasy roleplaying and real-life living was the most satisfying balance, and I cannot wait for more. I just preordered, and I cannot wait to handsell this beauty!

Switching between "real life" and the DnD sessions, this graphic novel is about friends from high school who are finally going to finish their first campaign! Jay, Drew, Shen, Walter, and Lana met at a GSA meeting that turned out to be a bust. However, they discovered their common desire of creating a role-playing game together. Fast forward a few years, and Jay's partner is joining the campaign. However, as a new player, things just feel different with her there.

This was so, so cute. I loved the characters. There is great LGBTQ+ representation as well as characters with different aspirations in life. The DnD story was also great! Plus beautiful illustrations. Definitely would recommend!