There's an official Mörk Borg comic and it's just as metal as the game

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To Hell and Galgenbeck is a wild fever dream set in the doom metal-fueled RPG world

To Hell and Galgenbeck interior art by Lukasz Kowalczuk
(Image credit: Stockholm Kartell)

Mörk Borg (Swedish for 'Dark Castle') is a hardcore indie tabletop RPG with a setting inspired by the bleakest aspects of the Black Plague, all filtered through a chopped-and-screwed mix of extreme heavy metal and gonzo grimdark design. And as it turns out, there's an official Mörk Borg comic.

To Hell and Galgenbeck by Polish cartoonist Lukasz Kowalczuk captures all the wild intensity of the live-fast-die-hard tabletop game in a package that feels like a fever dream version of a Saturday morning adventure cartoon. It releases a new two-page spread every week, some of which are mind-bending full-on double page spreads - all rendered in a blacklight poster-esque palette of black, pink, and yellow to match the sparse but engaging design of Mörk Borg's game manual.

"Mörk Borg is not a game with a typical setting and I don't have restrictions like 'You need to use this monster here.' What I have is support from the co-creator of the game - Johan Nohr (Stockholm Kartell) and editor Walton Wood (Liber Ludorum)," he continues, explaining his working relationship with the game's creators.

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George Marston
George Marston
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I've been Newsarama's resident Marvel Comics expert and general comic book historian since 2011, and now I'm the Entertainment Writer at GamesRadar+. I've also been the on-site reporter at most major comic conventions such as Comic-Con International: San Diego, New York Comic Con, and C2E2. Outside of comic journalism, I am the artist of many weird pictures, and the guitarist of many heavy riffs. (They/Them)