Thank you Netgalley for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was an enjoyable read if you’re someone who appreciates an engaging, quick paced story built around Dungeons and Dragons. I’m familiar with D&D, but not the Ravenloft setting and this was an enjoyable introduction! I’m excited to see a second instalment and follow Miranda as she becomes an adventurer all her own!

4stars for fantastic art and a page turner of a story!

Very Frankenstein! If you like Frankenstein, Dungeons & Dragons, or M is for Monster by Talia Dutton, you are sure to like this!

Miranda wakes up in a Gothic castle with no memory of who she is or what happened to get her there. Viktra is the doctor who claims to have healed her, and promises to care for her until she is fully healed. She has conditions however: Miranda must not try to regain her memories, and she ABSOLUTELY must not look under her bandages.

Viktra makes for a good example of a classic abuser. She keeps Miranda confined and in the dark all in the name of protecting her, and when Miranda becomes curious and starts asking questions, Viktra manipulates Miranda into feeling guilty for not appreciating the care and protection Viktra gives her. It's very very yucky to see.

I'm very interested in the mysterious Elise and very much look forward to seeing her in the future.

First comic book I’ve read. Never really found intrested in them til now. Very intresting. I enjoyed. Glad I picked it. Can’t wait to read more.

This book was amazing. Curse of Strahd is my favorite campaign and this is such an expansion to the Ravenloft world itself. To see more domain of dreads was inspiring in ways I can use it in my future campaigns. The story was compelling and artwork amazing to picture emotion. And I love the character development in each character.

A compelling book of woven stories, told through beautiful artwork... Orphan of Agony Isle has mystery, horrors, magic, and science all wrapped up together. I enjoyed this one a good deal and I hope to see more!

Such a thrilling and enticing add-on to the Ravenloft campaign playable through DnD. If you want something to sate the mood of monster madness, spooky thrills, and insatiable horror-filled fantasy this is definitely right up your alley. The artwork was a pleasure to see if not for the hard-to-read text at times that could and most likely will be remedied. I don't think you have to have a previous understanding of the game to be able to read this or any of the ones after. I sure don't have much knowledge of it beyond the basics. And I most definitely enjoyed it.

Plot was a tad predictable and thin, but it was interesting seeing the new Ravenloft in graphic novel form, even if for kids. Would still recommend

Overall, a fun read and the art work was incredible. I enjoyed this storyline and wish there was more!


I received a complimentary copy of this book through NetGalley. The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Thank you to NetGalley, IDW Publishing, and Casey Gilly for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

This graphic novel is a one-off tie-in to the Dungeons & Dragons Ravenloft campaign.

The art isn't really my favorite, and I had a hard time getting into the story, but once I realized how the stories within the story were connected, man this is one creepy book! I love the creep-factor and how each story is linked to the injured girl, "Miranda."

There are a number of stories about how this person or that person dies, seemingly unrelated, dreams or stories from a book, perhaps, but the connection is awesome and I don't want to spoil the multitudes that is this stand-alone graphic novel. Excellent for Dungeons and Dragons fans for certain, as well a horror-seekers.

Having not read the manual I didn't know what I was going to expect for this, but the art is brilliant, the characters are compelling, and the story is pretty good. I'm excited for the next issue to find out what monster is going to be released into the world.

This one wasn’t for me. I was lost at the very beginning. It might be because I am not familiar with Dungeons and Dragons. The main story is interwoven with mini stories and this was confusing. The artwork wasn’t helped by the big watermark in the middle of the pages. This is obviously to prevent the arcs being shared but why not put the watermark on the edge. In any case this simply wasn’t one for me.

This book will definitely appeal to fans of Dungeon and Dragon. The beginning confused me a lot but the story did get better.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!

(Rating is 4.5!) I just want to preface this with the fact that I know pretty much NOTHING about any Dungeon and Dragons stories, and I know nothing about Ravenloft. Which I think is a campaign or something? Really, I know nothing. This felt like a very Frankenstein-inspired novel but set in a Dungeons and Dragons universe. Miranda, is a mystery girl covered in wounds with no memory of who she was before waking up in Dr. Viktra's lab. Miranda wonders who she was before and why Viktra is bothering to help her at all. Some of Dr. Viktra's and Miranda's interactions are pretty bizarre to me. Dr. Viktra flies into a rage for one second and then instantly goes calm again. Miranda tries to stand up to Dr. Viktra, only to instantly chicken out and go "Forgive me for my indolence!". Like...huh? Those interactions are minor and only happen a few times, but enough for me to notice. The overarching storyline that slowly has Miranda find out how and why she came to be in Dr. Viktra's lab was pretty good. Each chapter has a very small side story, before switching back to the main plot line. I think those side stories are actually interconnected with the main plotline, but I didn't really understand that until about the third chapter. I'm still not one hundred percent they are interconnected, but I assume. The art style is so good! Some of the page spreads are absolutely gorgeous, and the color schemes are beautiful. The page flow is good, and I never got confused about what was happening or who said what dialogue. There's also a good balance of dialogue and action, never too much of one or the other. I dunno, if this is going to just be a stand-alone novel or if there, will be more, but I hope so! I would love to see a novel fully focused on Miranda and a certain side character introduced in this novel.

Thank you to NetGalley and IDW publishing for granting me access to this ARC in return for a fair and honest review. First of all the art in this graphic novel perfectly captured the feel and horror of Ravenloft. As a long time DnD player i think this is a great graphic novel to expand the knowledge of Ravenloft and give Dm's and players ideas for a Ravenloft campaign. My only hesitation to recommend this work is the text can be hard to read because of the font.

"You see, dear, when a doctor and science love each other very much, they decide they want to make a new life."

THis is an EXTREMELY good take on the Frankenstein story, and the fact that it's put through the lens of the Ravenloft setting actually only improves it. The writing is fantastic and the art is incredible. The arc I got to read was extremely difficult to read (the enormous watermark faded out about half the text and art to be unreadable, and the format for download wasn't designed to be resized in Adobe Digital Editions) so I had to read it on my phone instead of full size on my computer but despite that I was INCREDIBLY impressed by the quality of the writing, art, and storytelling. The frame narrative as Miranda began to recover her memories was extremely well done, and Viktra's instability was very compelling. Excited for Miranda to meet Elsie properly, and just -- yeah, this is also queer as hell, by the way. Thank you for this gift of a butch mad scientist lady version of Mordenheim.

I'll definitely be buying the physical edition of this comic when it's available so that I can read it properly when I revisit it.