Using Your Favorite Comic Books for your Next RPG Campaign

The Untrodden Ways is built upon the Ironsworn game-engine giving it the flexiblity to create a campaign based on a variety of Urban Fantasy sources. The Urban Fantasy genre has many comic and graphic novels that can provide you with basic stories and characters for your next campaign. Using the moves outlined in the Players Guide, consider one of these comics to provide you with fiction, milestones, and NPCs.

Urban Fantasy Comic Books from 2025

Last year had many excellent Urban Fantasy comics. You’ll find wand waving wizards, demon hunting cowboys, and action-star monster hunters to use as model characters and plotlines for your next Untrodden Ways campaign.

Dead Acre Black Badge

Dead Acre Black Badge

Vault Comics
The Magic Order Vol 2

The Magic Order

Image Comics
Fine Print Tp Vol 2

Fine Print

Image Comics
Under York Tp Vol 4

Under York

Image Comics
Hellboy Crown

Crown: A Tale in Hell

Dark Horse Comics

Horror Themed Comics

Many horror comics have Urban Fantasy elements built into them. Haunted houses, vampires, demons, and werewolves are often staples of horror and Urban Fantasy comics alike.

The Me You Love In The Dark

The Me You Love in the Dark

Image Comics
Version 1.0.0
Version 1.0.0

30 Days of Night

IDW
Woodland Creatures 2

Woodland Creatures

Cristina Roswell
Alpha Omega

Patricia Briggs' Alpha and Omega

Dynamite
Outthere

Out There

Image Comics
Coyotes

Coyotes

Image Comics

Modern Urban Fantasy Comics

Secret agents, drunken sorceresses, and teddybear wielding witches are just a few of the model characters that can be found in the large collection of Urban Fantasy comics from the last decade. Some of the comic books are spin-offs from popular novel series like the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, the Hollows by Kim Harrison, and Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovich. Start with the Urban Fantasy comic books and move into the novels for months of campaign ideas.

Shadow Service

Shadow Service

Vault Comics
Dresden Files

Dresden Files

Dynamite
Hexed

Hexed

BOOM! Studios
Lefay 1 Cover Scaled

LeFay

Evoluzione
Strange Academy

Strange Academy

Marvel Comics
Oberon 1

Oberon

Aftershock Comics
Grimm Tales From The Cave

Grimm Tales from the Cave

Mad Cave Studios
Monomyth

Monomyth

Mad Cave Studios
Prairie Gods

Prairie Gods

Mad Cave Studios
Minor Arcana

Minor Arcana

BOOM! Studios
Rivers Of London

Rivers of London

Titan Comics
Blood Work Hollows

Blood Work : Hollows by Kim Harrison

Del Rey
Wayward 30

Wayward

Image Comics
Fatale 24

Fatale

Image Comics
Sword Interval

The Sword Interval

Independent Web Comic
Mercy Thompson

Mercy Thompson Moon Called

Dynamite
Big Trouble

Big Trouble in Little China

BOOM! Studios

1980s - 2000s Urban Fantasy Comics

Urban Fantasy has been a source for comic books for many years. These classics proved that Urban Fantasy was a viable subject for comic books. Due to their age, you’ll find hours of comic book material at discount prices.

Books Of Magic

Books of Magic

DC Comics
Crimson Volume Two

Crimson

Boom Studios!
Hellboy

Hellboy

Dark Horse Comics
Aria

Aria

Image Comics
Dylan Dog Case Files

The Dylan Dog Case Files

Dark Horse Comics
Arrowsmith

Arrowsmith

Image Comics

All of these urban fantasy comic books are copyright and trademarked by their respective publishers. No infringement or affiliation is inferred.