Knights of the Dinner Table x2

Hoody-hoo! In April 2024 we presented two offers featuring Jolly R. Blackburn‘s long-running comic about tabletop roleplaying, Knights of the Dinner Table from Kenzer & Company. The revived May 2018 Knights of the Dinner Bundle once again presented the first 30 issues plus early specials – a perfect jumping-on point for the whole series. And its all-new companion, KoDT Trouble 6, was our sixth collection of Bundle of Trouble compilations. Together these two offers gathered more than 2,800 pages of hilarious comics for an unbeatable bargain price. Now yer playin’!

Knights of the Dinner Table follows the (mis)adventures of a roleplaying group in Muncie, Indiana. The town holds a large community of gaming enthusiasts including tabletop roleplayers, video game fanatics, larpers, wargaming grognards, and one notorious chain-smoking chimpanzee. Every week the Knights meet at their GM’s mother’s house to hack and slash through HackMaster, their game of choice. Storylines intermingle as the characters’ personal lives and foibles conflict with their ever-present urge to claim loot and experience points for their in-game personas. The Knights scheme, backstab, and occasionally cooperate as they face the pitfalls of not-so-everyday gaming.

Jolly Blackburn created Knights of the Dinner Table in 1990 as a filler comic strip for issue #2 of the small-press gaming magazine Shadis, which he published out of a spare bedroom. Jolly didn’t give KoDT much thought, until it quickly became a favorite among readers. The most frequent reaction was, “Those guys remind me of my own group!” Thirty years later, Jolly still draws and writes for the monthly Knights of the Dinner Table magazine. Since he joined Kenzer & Company and formed the KoDT Development Team (Barbara Blackburn, Brian Jelke, and David S. Kenzer), KoDT strips have appeared in seven different magazines and in many limited-series comic books. Throughout this unmatched run, the theme of the strip has held true: Outsiders and loners of all kinds can find friendship and acceptance at the gaming table.

KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER BUNDLE [from May 2018]

Every time we run a new offer of the Bundle of Trouble compilations, newcomers plaintively ask, “Can you please bring back the older lineups?” Here’s one! This May 2018 Knights of the Dinner Bundle revival – the first KoDT offer we ever presented, brought back for a third run – had the first 30 issues plus the early miniseries. This is your perfect moment to pull up a chair at B. A. Felton’s dinner table.

There were nine titles in this revived offer’s Starter Collection (retail value $86), including the first five KoDT Bundle of Trouble omnibus collections that together compile the first 15 issues of Knights of the Dinner Table magazine; three Tales from the Vault collections of scarce early strips from four different magazines; and The CattlePunk Chronicles Volume One: Outlaw Trail.

Those who paid more than this revival’s threshold also got this offer’s entire Bonus Collection with nine more titles worth an additional $88.50, including five more KoDT Bundles of Trouble that collect KoDT issues #16-30; the second CattlePunk Chronicles collection, Four Herdsmen of the Apocalypse; and three standalone books: Men That Hack, The Java Joint, and KoDT Special #1: Last Man Standing.

KoDT TROUBLE 6 [all-new]

For many years Kenzer has reprinted back issues of KoDT, two to four issues at a time, in its Bundle of Trouble compilations. We’ve already presented 50 volumes, and we still have some catching up ahead, because the compilations have reached Volume 76!

This all-new KoDT Trouble 6 Bundle gathered Bundle of Trouble Volumes #51-60, collecting KoDT issues #179-218 (2011-2015): Knights of the Dinner Table Bundle of Trouble Vol. 51, V52, V53, V54, V55, V56, V57, V58, V59, and V60.