Dungeon Crawler Carl: A raucous, disordered, and flawed love letter to the heroic spirit

Anyone who has watched a friend fight cancer inside the American healthcare system knows what it is to play a game whose rules were written by someone else, for someone else’s profit. About a month ago, a good friend who is fighting cancer told me he was reading the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. We had reached the point in his fight where we were running out of things to talk about as he started chemo. Most of his other hobbies were not ones we shared. Despite our friendship, you can only talk about something you know nothing about for so long without sounding like an idiot. ...

October 14, 2026 · Adam Sawyer