Published Apr 27, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT The world has ended and Carl is stuck outside in his underwear Image: Vault Comics Sign in to your Polygon.com account Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl LitRPG series has become a massive hit since he self-published his first book in 2020. There are now eight bestselling books about a world where all of Earth’s resources have been used to create a fantasy dungeon for an alien reality TV show. The bizarre, meta adventure has inspired a line of toys , a tabletop role-playing game that has raised more than $7.6 million on BackerKit, and an upcoming TV show produced by Seth MacFarlane . Now the first book is being turned into a graphic novel by Vault Comics. Webtoon studio Laurel Pursuit provides the illustrations for Dungeon Crawler Carl , Vol. 1, which covers about a third of the story of the first book.…