Pathfinder Comics

Pathfinder Comics is an ongoing line of comic books launched in 2012, published under license by Dynamite Entertainment.¹ Each issue includes an appendix featuring new Pathfinder RPG game content related to the contents of the issue's comic, as well as short overviews of Pathfinder campaign setting lore.

The first series, entitled simply Pathfinder ran for 12 issues and featured two 6-part story arcs, "Dark Waters Rising" and "Of Tooth and Claw". These series were followed by "Pathfinder Special 2013" and Pathfinder: City of Secrets, which, despite the change in naming conventions and issue numbering, continue the same story. All stories in the aforementioned arc were written by Jim Zub, though the primary artist shifted a number of times over the course of the series runs.

An unrelated 5-part series, "Pathfinder: Goblins!", was released concurrently with "Of Tooth and Claw" and featured two goblin-themed stories each issue, and a number of industry leaders as both authors and artists. In December 2014, Paizo announced "Pathfinder Origins", a series dedicating one issue to the early days of the iconic characters Valeros, Seoni, Harsk, Merisiel, Kyra, and Ezren.²

The main Pathfinder series continued in Runescars, Spiral of Bones, the Fumbus special, and Wake the Dead. All main stories prior to Wake the Dead featured Merisiel, Seoni, Valeros, and their adventuring party. The 5-part arc Wake the Dead, however, follows Harsk on an adventure separate from his first party, where he meets the iconics Lem, Quinn, Sajan, Seelah, and Nyctessa.

From 2016 to 2018, Dynamite also published 14 issues of Pathfinder: Worldscape comics. The first 6 issues feature Kyra, Merisiel, Seoni, and Valeros; the second volume's Worldscape: King of the Goblins one-shot features Seltyiel; and its sequel the third volume's Worldscape: Vampirella one-shot features Seltyiel and Seoni; but the Worldscape comics take place outside the normal continuity of the Pathfinder comics.