New Weekly Comic - Crystal Quest
An ancient evil threatens to cover the Freljord in endless ice and Sejuani Dawnchaser must find a way to save her home before it is consumed by eternal winter. Dig hammers and sorcery? Well check out this page every Monday as ARTeapot spins up some fantasy adventuring goodness!
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198 Comments
RooAbost549 votesYES, ANOTHER COMIC!!! I'm so glad this has become a regular thing, these are always a pleasure. It's great to see all of the artistic styles of LoL's art community, it's a special kind of adorable.
RiotSandalwoodGrips54 votesIt's awesome hearing this sort of thing from readers. Warms my heart. I love comics and I'm constantly impressed by how incredibly talented League's creator community is. We'll keep making them if you keep reading!
Nefas20 votesAnd what about those of us who do not care for comics?
RiotSandalwoodGrips127 votes[sg-janna]
Nefas26 votesI’m just asking if there are plans to have more regular lore pieces out in non-comic format. Don’t think that was deserving of a bunch of downvotes. Not everyone likes comics as a format but still would be interested in getting regular, weekly lore.
Kei14317 votesThese are fan-made comics and don't describe the lore in anyway whatsoever.
SandleWoodGrips isn't the right person to talk to when it comes to true lore release. She is the editor for these fan-made comics, and probably not on the Narrative team.
RiotSandalwoodGrips21 votes*He ;P And this is all true. These comic collabs exist in alternate universes, which gives us the freedom to do some really interesting stuff.
Jobriq45 votesWhen you're like who the fuck is this character and then you remember that skins exist
RiotSandalwoodGrips36 votesMission completed.
SeductiveGrandpa26 votesMight as well give some feedback:
Liking the style, very unique and memorable style, but I do have a problem with it so far. I had to re-read this comic like 5 times because of the composition. Theres a lot of stuff happening on-screen and not enough emphasis to what I should be looking at. Like the first section, where I was unsure where to go because of the massive overlap of the battle lion. Another problem I had was the robed guy as since he lingers between both frames, I was unsure to where he actually was relative to Sej until I saw the little WOOSH, so yeah. A bit more emphasis and control over composition would be nice. Other than those little complaints, loving the style, coloring, and overall look, + I love the idea of what is essentially a D&D comic for League, keep up the good work!
RiotSandalwoodGrips16 votesAll great feedback! The first few pages of any collaboration are a little tricky as we're both getting used to each other's styles and working as a team. I think you'll be impressed by ARTeapot's work as the comic goes on though. I definitely was.
SeductiveGrandpa4 votesOoh! Hyping me up, I see.
Well, I definitely plan to read all of this like any league related content, so I'll make sure to observe the progression.
Eveningdusk14 votesjust let me s m a s h -Jayce
Emmerlaus13 votesWe want to see what is the next Ilaoi skin already! It was supposed to be released today! :D
(nice comic though)
RiotSandalwoodGrips24 votesWe appreciate it!
Piltovers Zyro36 votesPlease more punches and plants, and maybe a special piltover's finest skin for zyra? [sg-soraka]
ChaoticGoodBard4 votesIm still waiting for Academy zyra [sg-syndra] myself
Tetrà17 votesshe sells weed to her classmates [poppy-wink]
Nanbeeb10 votesits hard to follow this art style 
Kaisermoone8 votesI can't help but wonder how many others realizes that the magic words he speaks to combine the relics are a word scramble....
"nerf yasuo" 
H0PIE6 votesthe style is good!!! I cannot wait for all the silly things Bard will do he is my favorite champion [sg-kiko]
Galaxy Convoy6 votesAh, the art style behind this one is nice! And this comic is bound to have two of my favorite champions (
& 
) starring in lead roles! Can't wait to see more! =D
Wizard Will6 votesIt's at Page 2 at the time of this comment: I love the artstyle, but it was a little hard to follow the flow of events on the page. in any case im still quite interested to see where this goes.
PalmtreeGuy6 votesthanks for the lemme smash meme
totally gonna use that when i play 
Tyravinor6 votesSeeing nothing but praise for these things. Am I really the only one who can't follow what's happening in these "comics" at all?
Captain Jedi5 votesAwesome comic! I'm digging the style; but please, PLEASE tell me that the last page is everyone huddled around the table finishing their D&D game.
RiotSandalwoodGrips5 votesARTeapot has a message for you complete with D&D action! http://arteapot.tumblr.com/post/167708100350/so-it-appears-i-cant-comment-on-the-na-posts
Boagster5 votesLemme smash
0PRAISETHESUN05 votesIt's hammer time ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)[poppy-wink]
Gentleman Gems5 votesCan't wait for the Tier 5 Paladin named Taric
Mêlone4 votessejuansauce*[slayer-jinx-wink]*
Ghouligan4 votes[sg-poppy]
0PRAISETHESUN04 votesHold on... Yersu Noaf.. NERF YASUO
Also why does Bard look like he's in an enternal state of shock with giant yellow eyes.
RiotSandalwoodGrips3 votesThat's actually just a mask! If you check out the skin, Bard just has a gold domino mask covering his... face? I have no idea what's under there.
TaneJia4 votesJudging by the side panel, all that quest for Nexus Shard is all for 
to break 
curse on 
?
Also, Singer gotta Sing.
Dragon0Hunter3 votesWhile I highly enjoyed Punches and Plants, and this looks promising, the Academy comics were my favorite. The art style was adorable, and featured some of my favorite champs, and a high variety f them. It made me happy seeing the comments of people saying oh I saw my main in the comic! (Still waiting on Academy Gnar)
RiotSandalwoodGrips5 votesYou'll be happy to hear that Gutter Rat, the wildly talented artist behind Academy Adventures, is currently working on new comics as we speak! And Risu is also working her magic on Punches and Plants Season 2. Stay tuned my friend, we have more cool stuff in store :)
Call Me Twisted3 votes:/ this has gotten a little worse with each page. I can't even tell whats going on in this one. VERY unfriendly to color blind people... guess i'm done reading it.
RiotSandalwoodGrips3 votesThis is an interesting issue that I've never seen before. Unfriendly to color blind people? In what way? What other kinds of images are unclear for you?
Call Me Twisted5 votesmost of the last few pages, but this is my best example Page 9 Nami appears to be alone. the second panel is nice I can tell bard Ivern and a bird apart really well. The bottom left panel is a large amount of one brown, some tone red/silvers. ( i can see Leona tho, she looks pissed.) The last panel is clear, but I don't personally have issues with Reds it just makes the background look like the foreground but perception is easy enough based on the pose.
Tritanopia Type in my right eye, not both, it was caused by trauma, so colors smear, sadly the other eye is nearly blind so I am stuck with the stranges looking images.
Apologies if that isn't English i don't often have to explain to people how my eyes see things >.<
RiotSandalwoodGrips4 votesNo your English is solid and thanks so much for the detailed explanation! To be honest I'm not totally sure what it is we can do about making our comics more color blind-friendly. Would it have helped if we used black outlines for the characters? I'll do a little research, but are there any resources you can point me to that would help give me a better understanding of this stuff?
Call Me Twisted5 votesOutlines would be astoundingly helpful. This can give an idea of what colors look like together with different eye problems. http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/ This is the one my eye doctor gave me, to show my family what my eyes do.
RiotSandalwoodGrips3 votesThank you so much for the reference! I'm not sure that we'll be able to make adjustments for this season, or even next, but it's absolutely something we'll be keeping in mind going forward. Again, thank you for reaching out and letting us know about this.
APygmyPuff3 votesI wasn't sure if this was the best place to add this but I guess I can reply here. I used to work at a bank in their DXD team and accessibility was a huge deal for us when we were designing. If you guys do ever decide to look into doing more with accessibility friendly stuff you can use this:
https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
We used it when we had to make color combinations. If the score was under 4.0 it wasn't considered fully accessible and therefore was unusable. Obviously your rules won't be so strict but it's a good indicator of what color combinations work best for most accessibility issues.
[sg-ahri-2]
RiotSandalwoodGrips3 votesHey thank you for taking the time to pass this along. We appreciate it!
Crystal Quest3 votesJust realized this comic has the same name as my ign.
Larriet2 votesAre Garen and Katarina enacting any story in particular on page 4?
RiotSandalwoodGrips4 votesNothing in particular, but it does remind me of something Shakespearian...
Larriet2 votesI know I ask too-deep questions every time, but (other than Leona, which I get), was there a thought process behind which champ had each item?
River Spirit Nami looks amazing, by the way!
RiotSandalwoodGrips3 votesHEY! ARTeapot has a really cool response for you here - http://arteapot.tumblr.com/post/169826211340/and-for-the-second-time-i-cant-properly-comment