This takes its time in proving to be about a doofus who, with the help of a dodgy statue bought as a souvenir of having gotten (in highly dodgy fashion) on to an archaeology dig somewhere vaguely exotic, has his D&D scenarios start to live out in the universe next to his garage. It takes its time to get going, it has no idea what Piranesi's art really looks like, apparently, and it really doesn't know what direction to take itself, when the adventure they suck themselves into following involves a preamble concerning both the ghost of a dead brother for our MC and the mass runs for all of them into ye olde mediaeval portaloos. Oh, and it ends up going woke, with much debate about appropriate levels of death in combat in a made-up world that just so happens to have come true by mistake. Wokeness, apparently, far more important than dead brothers. But then so little about this has any consequence – by the last few pages you have to think the dodgy statue has been completely forgotten – or else, heaven forfend, saved for a sequel I just won't be around for.

A fun action packed portal fantasy. I had a lot of fun on this adventure. It begins with an archaeology student finding a relic. The colors are bright and the art shows the action in a fun way.

4 stars

Oh so enjoyable!! I really loved this one and everything about this! So funny and different from my usual reads. Really enoyable and I will definitly reccomend this one to everyone!!

I've always loved stories where the magic invades real life. In this one, Zach comes back from an archaeological dig with an artifact that ends up dragging him and his friends into wild adventures. The young people are great, the pictures are bright and action packed, and the story is fun. I hope there are more
Thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this

Zach, an archeology student, and his four friends start a campaign that Zach and his deceased brother Peter created for a DnD-like game. During a game climax, and in time with a lightening strike outside, Zach pulls out an ancient artifact from his most recent dig. The powers combine and a portal to the game world opens up in Zach's garage. When Zach discovers it the next day, he and his friends enter the portal and are faced with their campaign in real life. Adventure, danger, bravery, and snappy comments ensue.

This is a fun book for anyone that loves adventure and/or fantasy tabletop role-playing games. It is on the more violent side, but also has a good run of poop jokes to keep it from getting too dark. The story moves along quickly. The black and white drawings give plenty of details, but aren't stunning or intricate.

This isn't my preferred genre, but I know some teenagers who would eat it up!

Thank you to SLG Publishing and NetGalley for an egalley copy of this book. All opinions are my own.

Zach Vandermeer got fired from an archeological dig for fabricating evidence and being a credit short from being a grad student. On his way home he picked up a statuette at the local flea market. Back home he met up with his old gaming group and they had a pick-up game in the garage using a campaign Zach and his missing brother Pete had developed. The next morning Zach found that the garage door lead into their gaming world. Live-action adventuring commenced with the party transforming into their characters. Plenty of comedy (be very careful of what you eat!), but also plenty of hard choices on how to rescue their friend captured by goblins. It will be interesting to see if the garage has any more adventures in store for Zach and his crew!

Thanks Netgalley for a chance to read this title!

A little too much action without depth for me. Started with a car chase, very exciting but not my vibe

Fantasy and reality collide when a transdimensional gateway is accidentally opened into an RPG group's game world; they get caught up in an rollicking adventure, but when one of their members is kidnapped by goblins, they leverage Buymart to rescue him.

This was fun and the art was cool.

*reviewed from uncorrected eARC via netgalley*

action-packed RPG adventure with plenty of humor -- let's hope the next installment arrives soon!

3,5 stars rounded up to 4.
I very much liked this fantasy/adventure story. I think I like action more in this fomat. The characters were quite three dimensional and I liked most of the jokes.
What impressed me the most was how good the drawing style fitted with the story.

Not only a cool cover but also a cool story!

I love the colorful and detailed cover which is a good reflection of the story and art inside.

Rough, cool, black and white art accompanied an action packed story.

We follow Zach, a funny guy with a huge imagination, who is working at a dig site in the Middle East. Unfortunately they send him home (after accomplishing a lot so it seems unfair) because he’s a credit short and only graduates are allowed at the dig. But before he leaves, he buys a mysterious statue at a market.

When he makes it home and his friends come over to play an RPG game, Zach and his late brother Peter invented, and they include the strange statue he brought home from the Middle East, something is set in motion. Afterwards Zach falls asleep on the couch in the garage where they played the game and wakes up to parts of the game world in the real world and a portal!

I loved seeing the RPG game come alive while they were playing it and when they stepped into that game world through the garage portal and how they used things from that world in the real world and visa versa.

What a hilarious, action packed adventure! And what a great friend group. They certainly had more guts than I would have haha.

The only thing I disliked were the several pages of text as an epilogue. Bring those things to life graphic novel style or leave them out.

I hope there will be a next volume! There were unsolved mysteries in this one, I would love to see solved and the epilogue made me excited to see the things it described and I just had a great time reading this one so I can’t wait for the next one!

Thank you NetGalley for providing me with an arc in exchange for my honest review.

This book is great for kids who are lower level readers because of the Graphic Novel Format. I know our kids talk with many expletives but I jus wish those could be kept out of the books that we allow our children to read. Seeing it in print seems to condone that type of language and I believe the author could have kept the integrity of the book without that type of language. I will not be putting this in my library for that reason which is sad because the story is one I think the kids would really enjoy. This is the only reason I gave it a 3 star review. If the language was cleaned up it would be a 5 and I would be ordering it for our library!

I’ll give it to James Turner for imagination in this graphic novel.
The book opens with an exciting chase scene filled with guns, fast cars, and a perilous mile long tumble off a cliff’s edge.
Zach the creative protagonist can slap spin a story and does!
Not being a fan of fantasy I just couldn’t get into this one.
The art is amazing. It’s all black and white and the shading is dramatic.
Readers of fantasy will most likely devour Dragon Garage.