Legendary Legends

of Legendarious
Achievery
Book 1
written by
Gene Luen Yang
pencils by Les McClaine
inks by Alison Acton
color by Karina Edwards & Alex Campbell
edited by Mark Siegel & Heather Antos
designed by Kirk Benshoff, Angela Boyle, & Molly Johanson
production editing by Dawn Ryan & Avia Perez

NEW YORK
The weighty, weighty tome you now hold in
your hands tells a tale so eye-smackingly good
that you are definitely going to need some eye
protection!

No joke. Your eyeballs are about to get smacked!

So go find yourself a pair of glasses or

goggles. Even a mask will do, especially if
you’re a Goblin. (Because Goblin faces are
creepy.)

Get those eyeballs protected. Trust me.

Now blink a few times, slowly.

Maybe have some eye drops handy if you’re

still feeling anxious.

Then when your eyeballs are ready, turn

the page and we’ll begin our tale on a
battlefield far, far away...
 . . . where troops from a village so mediocre
|’m not even going to mention its name are
getting their pancakes handed to them by
the greatest village in all the land—

—the village of
TRIUMPHICA!

And their
FIREBALL!
Goblins!
And their HEE
Wow! Look Wizards! HEE!
at those
Triumphica
Barbarians go!

H! FIREBALL!
UG
A AA
RR
GR
Eech. What
creeps. (Not a
big fan of Goblins.
HEE But then, who is?)
HEE
Ha ha! Are HEE!
they on fire
or what?!

Awe-inspiring, isn’t it?

Seriously, has your awe
ever been so inspired?

Listen, Chief, |’m

going to let you in | can call you
on a secret. Chief, right?
 You see how Triumphica’s
troops all stay separate? Their
Barbarians only train with other
Barbarians, their Wizards with
other Wizards, and so on?

That’s why they keep

winning! Every troop can
concentrate on whatever
it is that makes them
special, without worrying
about anybody else!

A good chopped steak is

WHAT IS
some-thing else, though,
THAT?!
Sort of like a mess hall isn’t it? Boy, what | wouldn’t
tray, you know? How give for a good—
gross is it when your Yesss!
peas and carrots
get mixed into your
chopped steak?
DUDE! STAY
IN YOUR OWN
SECTION!

Remember what
EVEN IN THE MESS HALL, | said about eye
NO TROOP LIKES THAT protection?
KIND OF MESS!

As soon as you turn Chief, | present to you the glory

Entering the
the page, you are of Triumphica and the terror of their
battlefield are
going to need it! enemies! The troops whose renown
Triumphica’s
echoes from one corner of the land
legendary—
to the other!
nay, legendariously
legendary...
 Snort
!
Snort!

!
Snort

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 CRASHER SMASHER
THE
THE
SMOLDERING!
CANTANKEROUS!

AND THE CAPTAIN

OF THE TRIUMPHICA
HOG RIDERS, —THE ALLEST-STAR
STANDING AT OF THE ALL-STARS—
SIX-FOOT-FIVE
AND WEIGHING IN AT
260 POUNDS OF WHAT
WE’RE REASONABLY THE RAGEFUL!

SURE IS PURE,
UNMEDICATED
MUSCLE—

SWEET WE ARE
LOGMAS. SO FFF—

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 WE GET TO HAVE
—FORTUNATE! OUR PANCAKES
HANDED TO US BY
ROKKUS THE
RAGEFUL?!

EVERYTHING
| DREAMED
IT’D BE!

BEFORE YOU KNOCK

ME INTO THE NEXT MAKE IT SAY, “TO STAN,
VILLAGE, CAN YOU MAY YOUR HEART’S EVERY
PLEASE AUTOGRAPH DESIRE COME TRUE EVEN
MY HAT? THOUGH YOUR CHEST
IS AS EMPTY AS A—”

FINE.

SIGNATURE’S
ALL YOU GET.

GREAT!
EXACTLY WHAT
| WANTED.

FOOL
FORGOT
HIS PEN. KEEP
IT!

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 MR.
CANTANKEROUS! MR. YEAH.
MIGHT | TROUBLE HOG RIDERS
SMOLDERING, WISH
YOU FOR AN ARE SUCH
IF YOU DON’T | WAS ONE
AUTOGRAPH? SHOW-OFFS. YEAH.
MIND? OF ’EM,
THOUGH.
MR. ALL RIGHT,
RAGEFUL— LAST ONE!
WE GOTTA
GET STARTED!

ENOUGH!

TIME TO
DROP THE
HAMMER!

Ha ha!
 re your eyeballs
A
smacked, or what?!

Whoa,
whoa,
whoa!
Where
 re you
a
letting those LET’S GO,
MAKE ’EM
SEE STARS,
eyeballs go? PIM PIM!
RIDERS!

PLEASE?!

MPH.

|’LL TREASURE Why are

THIS MOMENT y ou paying
FOREVERRR!
attention to
this guy?!
 LOOK, |
HEY, RIDERS,
KNOW THEM
BUT NOW’S HA HA! TERRY AND HIS
OTHER HOGS CAN
OUR CHANCE TO THAT’S IT, LITTLE LITTLE HOGLET
BE JERKWADS!
Just SHOW ROKKUS BUDDY! FINALLY
like their WE’RE AS TOUGH SHOWED UP!
Riders. SHUT YOUR
AS ANY OF ’EM, LET’S FACE, SMASHER!
RIGHT? GO GET AND THE NAME IS
IT! TERRODICUS!

{Sigh}

YOU CAN’T HAVE

Trust me, Chief, follow this A NAME THAT’S
guy and the eye-smacking BIGGER ’N YOU
is over! Might as well buy a ARE, TERRY!
Because this guy
couple of hammocks for
is a dweeb!
your eyeballs!
TERRY! WHY WEREN’T
YOU PART OF THE GRAND
ENTRANCE?! WE GOT A
WAY OF DOING
THINGS! SORRY, CAPTAIN
ROKKUS! PIM PIM AND
| HAD TO, UH. . . WORK
SOME STUFF OUT!
AND THE NAME IS
TERRODICUS.

ONE WIZARD
TOWER LEFT, RIDERS!
AS IS TRIUMPHICA SMASHER, CRASHER,
HOG RIDER TRADITION, AND | WILL FORM THE RICH
WE’RE GONNA TAKE AND CREAMY CENTER, WHILE
DOWN THAT LAST THE REST OF YOU FORM WE’RE GONNA
STRUCTURE AS A THE DELIGHTFULLY MAKE THE WHOLE
UNIT! WE’LL USE THE FLAKY OUTSIDE! VILLAGE SEE
DEADLY CREAM PUFF STARS!
FORMATION!
 COME ON,
PIM PIM!
TIME TO
DROP THE LET’S
HAMMER! GO GET
IT!

TERRY! STAY IN
FORMATION! YOUR
LITTLE HOGLET’S TAKING
YOU STRAIGHT
INTO A—
?!
AW, FFF—

—FUDGE
BISCUITS!

Oink. . . ?

Listen, Chief, how about you turn

back to Page 8 and reread the
part where Rokkus and the rest of
Triumphica’s real Hog Riders start
handing troops their pancakes?
 | cannot. Believe. You don’t want a
You turned the page. narrator? Fine! WHAT DO
YOU MEAN, WE
SHOULDN’T GIVE UP?!
IN CASE YOU HAVEN’T
|’M SORRY, NOTICED, WE’RE IN
PIM PIM. MAYBE MIDAIR!
YOU WERE RIGHT
TO STAY ON THAT
HILL.

Oink
oink! Oink oink
oink!

Have fun reading your

dweeb story about a Good riddance!
LIKE TWO HEY. . .
dweeb Rider and his CANNONBALLS
dweeb hoglet! MADE OF MEAT WE’RE TWO
INSTEAD OF CANNONBALLS
METAL! MADE OF MEAT
INSTEAD OF
METAL!

Oink
oink
Oink! oink!

HA HA!
THAT’S IT!
Oink! LET’S
COME ON, GO GET
PIM PIM!
IT! Oink!
 {MM
FIREBALL! PH!}

FIREBALL!

FIRE—

HA
HA!
WE DID IT,
PIM PIM! | KNOW,
Squeal! RIGHT?
SO
MUCH
FUN!

CAPTAIN
ROKKUS! WE
DID IT! WE MADE
THE WHOLE
VILLAGE SEE
STARS!

Hmph.

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 HOG
RIDERS OF
TRIUMPHICA!
WHAT TO AND HEAR THE
IS BEST IN CRUSH OUR LAMENTATIONS OF
LIFE?! ENEMIES, THEIR BUILDER! GOTTA
LOVE THEM
DRINK THEIR LAMENTATIONS!
ELIXIR, RIGHT, LITTLE
BUDDY?

Oink!

DARK ELIXIR OOOH! MM. LIKE SORRY, YOU GOT

MUFFIN, ANYONE? PASS ME A WAVE OF TERRY. TWO OF ’EM
LET ME
FRESH OUT OF ONE OF FLAVOR! NONE RIGHT THERE,
GET IN ON
THE OVEN! THOSE! LEFT. SMASHER!
THAT!
THEY’RE
BOTH FOR
ME.

LISTEN UP, WE ALL SAW WHAT AND AN EXTRA “THE”

RIDERS! |’D LIKE AN
YOU DID OUT THERE! PART FOR YOUR NAME!
TO RECOGNIZE THE OBSIDIAN
TONIGHT, | HONOR YOU FROM NOW ON, YOU WILL BE
MVP OF TODAY’S BLAMM, HAMMER.. .
WITH THE TWO MARKINGS KNOWN AS BLAMM THE
BATTLE! APPROACH OF A TRIUMPHICA HOG BELLICOSE!
THE CAMP- RIDER ALL-STAR:
FIRE!

THANK
YOU, MY
CAPTAIN!

TO BLAMM THE
BELLICOSE!

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 WITH ALL DUE RESPECT,
“TIME TO THAT’S DOESN’T
CAPTAIN, WHAT KINDA GOBLIN
DROP THE RIGHT! DROP MATTER! YOU
DOOKIE IS THIS?! PIM PIM AND | FALLIN’ OUTTA
HAMMER.” THE HAMMER! BROKE DEADLY THE SKY LIKE
TOOK DOWN THAT LAST WIZARD
NOT THE HOG CREAM PUFF SOME KINDA
TOWER ON OUR OWN, WITHOUT MOHAWKED
BUTT! THE FORMATION! HAILSTONE!
HELP FROM ANY OF THEM FOOLS,
HAMMER! AND LOOKED
ESPECIALLY NOT BLAMM!
YET YOU LIKE A FOOL!
HECK, | BET BLAMM TOOK OUT THE
DOESN’T EVEN KNOW VERY LAST WIZARD WE GOT A
WHAT “BELLICOSE” OF THAT VILLAGE CERTAIN WAY OF
MEANS! WITH YOUR HOG’S DOING THINGS! A
MEANS BUTT! TRADITION! YOU WANNA
| GOT A BE A TRIUMPHICA HOG
COZY BELLY. . . RIDER, YOU DO THINGS
RIGHT? IT WORKED, THE TRIUMPHICA HOG
DIDN’T IT?! AND RIDER WAY!
TELL ME, TERRY,
| TOOK OUT HIS
WHEN WE’RE ON
TOWER WITH MY
THE BATTLEFIELD,
HAMMER!
WHAT DO | ALWAYS
SAY? MY CATCH-
PHRASE. WHAT
IS IT?

| GOT A “THE” PART EVERYBODY HERE KNOWS

YOUCAN START USING IN YOUR FACE IT, THERE’S ONLY ONE REASON A
NAME RIGHT NOW: TERRY THE TWERPY. YOU’RE AN HOG RIDER LIKE YOU GOT TO BE
TWERPY! SORRY, TERRODICUS EMBARRASSMENT. IN TRIUMPHICA AT ALL.
THE TWERPY! HA!

{Snicker!}
{Snicker!}

TERRY,
LATER, WAIT!
TWERPY! HA
HA
HA!
 TERRY... AND IT BUT IT ISN’T
| KNOW PEOPLE
TERRODICUS. LOOK AT ME AND THINK, IS, MORE EASY. LEADING AN
“MAN, BEING ROKKUS THAN YOU CAN ORGANIZATION AS
MUST BE SO IMAGINE. LEGENDARY—NAY,
AMAZING!” LEGENDARIOUSLY
CAPTAIN
LEGENDARY—AS THE
ROKKUS.
TRIUMPHICA HOG
YOU CAN
RIDERS IS A SERIOUS
DROP THE
RESPONSIBILITY!
“CAPTAIN.” NO
ONE ELSE IS
AROUND.
WE GOT A
TRADITION TO
UPHOLD, A TRADITION
EVERYBODY WANTS
TO BE A PART OF!

| GOTTA TELL YOU,

SOMETIMES IT FEELS
LIKE | WANT YOU TO BE IN
TRIUMPHICA MORE THAN YOU
YOURSELF WANT TO BE
IN TRIUMPHICA!

WELL...

| WANT
WHAT YOU WANT,
ROKKUS.

ALWAYS
HAVE.

CAN’T SAY
| BLAME YOU! IT’S HIGH TIME
HA HA! YOU TRADED UP FOR
WHICH IS A HOG WORTHY OF
WHY | GOT YOU TRIUMPHICA! HER
A PRESENT! NAME IS TOGG!
COME
ON OUT! SNORT!

WHAT?!

Squeal...?
 ROKKUS,
YOU’RE THE
ONE WHO GO ON,
TAUGHT ME TOGG.
THAT THE BOND Snort!
BETWEEN HOG
AND RIDER IS
SACRED!

YEAH,
BUT ONLY
IF—

|’M NOT
TRADING!

FINE.

LOOK, LITTLE HUH.

BROTHER, YOU’VE THAT VILLAGE
GOTTA PROVE BELOW...
THAT YOU’RE ONE ROGG?
OF US! IF YOU BINOCULARS!
WOULD JUST...

{Snort!}

NEVER PAID MUCH AND | WAS RIGHT! HA! WITH A

ATTENTION TO THE VILLAGE THOSE WALLS HAVEN’T NAME LIKE THAT,
PERFECT
BELOW EVEN THOUGH IT’S BEEN REPAIRED IN AGES! IT’S PERFECT,
FOR WHAT?
SO CLOSE. DIDN’T SEEM AND LOOK AT WHERE THEY TERRY!
WORTH THE EFFORT... PUT THEIR TOWN HALL!
THEIR OWN BUILDER MUST PERFECT FOR
HATE THEM! YOU TO FINALLY
AND THE
EARN SOME
NAME... LET’S SEE.. .
RESPECT.
JAZZYPICKLETON!
 TOMORROW USE THE LETHAL
MORNING, |’M GONNA LAYER CAKE FORMATION,
PUT YOU IN CHARGE MAYBE? OR MORTAL
OF THE OTHER DONUT? YOU’LL
ALL-STARS! FIGURE IT OUT.

IN CHARGE
OF THE ALL-STARS?
YOU’RE GONNA GO ROKKUS, |.. . | DON’T
HAND THIS JAZZYPICKLETON KNOW WHAT
THEIR PANCAKES! AND YOU’RE TO SAY.
GONNA DO IT THE RIGHT WAY,
FOLLOWING TRIUMPHICA HOG
RIDER TRADITION!

HA HA!
FOOL. BUT LISTEN, IF IT
JUST SAY, “YES, DOESN’T WORK OUT, |
CAPTAIN!” REALLY WANT YOU TO
CONSIDER—

IT’LL WORK
YES, OUT! | MEAN, THE
CAPTAIN! ALL-STARS! | WON’T
LET YOU DOWN,
ROKKUS!

AND, . . . BIG
HEY... BROTHER.

THANK
YOU.

YOU BETTER
DON’T
SLEEP WELL TONIGHT,
MENTION
JAZZYPICKLETON!
| AM
IT. WE’RE BECAUSE COMING FOR YOUR
FAMILY. TOMORROW— PANCAKES!
 TODAY IS
A GREAT DAY, MY JAZZYPICKLETON?
FELLOW HOG RIDERS! NEVER HEARD OF
A DAY THAT WILL BE ’EM.
REMEMBERED FOREVER
IN THE ANNALS OF BECAUSE TODAY,
TRIUMPHICA THE LEGENDARY—
HISTORY! NAY, LEGENDARIOUSLY
LEGENDARY—TRIUMPHICA HOG
RIDERS ARE GONNA FINALLY
HAND OUR ARCHENEMY, THE
NOTORIOUSLY NOTORIOUS
JAZZYPICKLETON, THEIR
PANCAKES!

LOOK AT THOSE
YOU SURE THAT’S
BUSTED-UP WALLS. . .
A VILLAGE? ’CAUSE IT
MAYBE WE OUGHTA
SOUNDS LIKE SOME
PITCH IN AND
KINDA ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT
HELP ’EM!
SALAD BAR.

JUST—JUST
FOLLOW MY LEAD,
ALL RIGHT?

WE’RE DOING THE REMIND

CHOCOLATE-DIPPED SHORTBREAD ME WHY WE’RE
COOKIE FORMATION! YOU THREE FORM PUTTIN’ UP WITH THIS
THE SATISFYINGLY SPONGEY COOKIE, FOOLISHNESS?
WHILE | FORM THE DELECTABLE
CANDY-COVERED TIP! SAME REASON
WE PUT UP WITH
ANYTHING TWERPY
DOES.
ROKKUS
ASKED US TO.

{Psst!} NO, PIM

PIM PIM, ARE PIM!
YESSS! Oink
THEY ACTUALLY
FOLLOWING? oink! | KNOW WE HAD FUN
WITH THAT LAST SPRING TRAP,
BUT IT’S NOT SOMETHING A
TRIUMPHICA-WORTHY
HOG WOULD DO!

Oink!

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 Oink
oink... THAT’S
IT, LITTLE
TIME TO
BUDDY!
DROP THE
HAMMER!
LET’S GO
GET IT!

Hog
Hog Riders.
Riders.

WHOA!
TWERPY—| MEAN,
TERRODICUS HAS
ACTUALLY GOT AN
ARM ON HIM! HATE TO
ADMIT IT, BUT HE
KINDA REMINDS
ME OF—

CAPTAIN
ROKKUS!
 GUYS, THE
DELECTABLE CANDY- YOU HEARD
COVERED TIP HAS THE SATISFYINGLY THE RIDER! LET’S
GOT THIS SECTION SPONGEY COOKIE MOVE!
HANDLED! OUGHTA HEAD AROUND
TO THE OTHER SIDE!

HA HA!
TOWN HALL,
HERE WE
COME!

HOG
RIDERS!

Oink!
Oink!

HEY, PIM PIM,

|’VE BEEN THINKING.
WHAT SOUNDS BETTER, YOU’RE RIGHT,
TERRODICUS THE TERRIFIC Oink. TOO LONG. OOH! |
OR TERRODICUS THE KNOW! HOW ABOUT
TERRIFYING? TERRODICUS THE
TERRIFICIFYING?

Oink.
 —BY A
LET ME THE LEGENDARY— VILLAGE NAMED
SEE IF |’VE NAY, LEGENDARIOUSLY JAZZYPICKLETON?!
GOT THIS LEGENDARY—TRIUMPHICA
RIGHT. HOG RIDERS GOT OUR
PANCAKES HANDED
TO US—

| TOLD YOU
TO USE ONE OF
THE TRADITIONAL
FORMATIONS!

WE
DID!

NO! ROKKUS,
THEN PIM PIM AND | WERE DOING
IT’S TIME, GREAT! BUT THEN OUTTA
TERRY. NOWHERE COMES
WHAT...? THIS. . .THIS. . .
No...

WHAT? BABY
DRAGON? ICE
GOLEM? P.E.K.K.A.?
SPIT IT OUT!

| DON’T KNOW
WHAT IT WAS. BUT
Snort! IT WAS HUGE.
POWERFUL.

SOME KINDA
SECRET
WEAPON.

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“SECRET WEAPON.” WE DIDN’T
OF ALL THE GOBLIN SEE NO SECRET
DOOKIE |’VE EVER ONE OF WEAPON.
HEARD... YOU MUST’VE
SEEN IT! BACK YOU KNOW
ME UP HERE! WHAT WE DID
SEE?

AN
EMBARRASSMENT.

SAY THAT
AGAIN TO MY
TERRY! YOU
FACE! DARE PUT YOUR
HANDS ON AN
ALL-STAR?!
OOF!

HEADING
HA HA
BACK TO YOUR
HA!
CRYING SPOT,
TWERPY?

See what | mean,

Chief? Dweeb!

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