Father’s Day is this Sunday, and dads love action, adventure, and escaping into a great read as much as anyone else. For this month’s book drop, here’s one Webtoon, one Manga, and one graphic novel to get the party started with a big Boom, Bang, Zap or Pew Pew!

Solo Leveling 1 by Chugong

The start off to the Korean webtoon series so popular, the anime adaptation overtook all the Japanese titles in the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards’ including Anime of the Year. It is also getting a live action K-Drama adaptation soon, so now it the time to get into the story. Sung Jinwoo is the weakest level of monster hunter in a world where gates to monster-filled dungeons keep popping up. Sung is so desperate for money he takes jobs well beyond his abilities. In one particular job, enters a second dungeon level and…long story short because it is filled with spoilers…becomes a “player” in the System with the ability to level up with increasing badassery. If you don’t want to purchase further volumes, the Webtoon is available online, of course.

…and because you can’t get enough of dungeon crawling coolness…

Dungeon Crawler Carl: The Graphic Novel Volume One

Disclaimer: If you love this, please, please pick up all of the Matt Dinniman novels on which this is based. They are laugh-out-loud funny as well as intense. You’ll be an instant fan. The new graphic adaption by Teuagah with art by Laurel Pursuit follows the novel’s story very close. The best way to describe this is to paint a picture: Carl is up at 2 a.m. playing video games in his boxers. His newly EX-girlfriend’s cat, the over-pampered Princess Donut, jumps outside the window and trees herself. He heads outside in his boxers and an old pair of his ex’s Crocs’s to retrieve it. Goddammit, Donut! At this time the Earth gets pretty much leveled by alien invaders. Now, as one of the few survivors, Carl and Princess Donut enter a dungeon to take part in an AI alien run reality show created from harvested Earth resources. Princess Donut levels up pretty fast. This novel series is wildly entertaining, and was originally a self-published job. Now, Carl and Donut are selling millions of books, getting role playing game and possibly…maybe…a television series.

But, if there’s a manga that Dad’s love (at least the Dad in my house), it’s…

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Volume One by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

The 2005 Origin story of the massively huge…and not just in size… Gundam sci-fi military saga that started back in 1979. I hope I don’t need to explain what Moble Suit Gundam is about. These giant mecha weapons of war have been defending humanity for a long, long time, and there more stories of them than the Star Wars Extended Universe. This is the manga version of the first season of the television series that sets the scene for the Gundam is more than just a manga and anime franchise, it’s a legacy, with merch, games, several adaptations and stories and now talks of a new movie in the works. It’s what you use to get people who hate anime and manga into both these mediums.

So, get Dad into some easy summer reading with these illustrated escapes. Then borrow and read them yourself for the sheer joy of reading.