Borderlands, Please Listen – Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Already Has a Perfect Sequel

WARNING! Spoilers for Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands: Land of the Giants #1-3

The Borderlands universe isn’t limited to its main games, as it’s introduced various spin-offs, including the hit Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. However, though a follow-up game has been teased in the past, one has yet to be officially confirmed. The fate of Borderlands‘ sequel to Tiny Tina’s solo venture may be uncertain, but the game has a fun spin-off to hold fans over in the meantime.

Tiny Tina has led a video game, and now she’s starring in her own comic from Dark Horse Comics. Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands: Land of the Giants is a three-part series that serves as a successor to the game, as Tina conducts a new Bunkers & Badasses campaign alongside a familiar cast of characters from the Borderlands series.

Written by Paul Tobin with art by Luisa Russo, Heather Breckel, and Deron Bennett, this exciting comic is the perfect way for Borderlands fans to get their fill of Tiny Tina-focused mayhem while the games shift their priorities elsewhere.

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Has A Comic Tie-In That Embraces Borderlands’ D&D Parody

Tina and Her Bunkers & Badasses Pals Return to the Borderlands

Bunkers & Badasses is the Borderlands universe’s equivalent of Dungeons and Dragons, and it’s become a staple of Tiny Tina’s character over the years. Here, she takes on the role of “Bunker Master” – a play on D&D’s Dungeon Master, of course – and conducts a campaign for a group of friends that includes franchise favorites Sir Hammerlock and Claptrap, as well as Captain Valentine and Frette from Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. At every turn, Tina pulls her players away from the main story she’s curated to send them on various ridiculous side quests, emulating a real-life DM.

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Tiny Tina’s penchant for playing the role of “Bunker Master” in Bunkers & Badasses games originated in the Borderlands 2 DLC entitled “Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon’s Keep”. Since that story’s release, she’s been given her own spin-off, and now that adventure is branching out into comics. Tina has been known to use her favorite roleplaying game as an outlet for her struggles, as seen when she navigated her grief over Roland’s death through her initial campaign, and this latest comic continues that trend of Tina’s Bunkers & Badasses games unveiling her inner conflicts.

Tiny Tina Gets Much-Needed Character Exploration in Her New Comic

Despite Her Explosive Demeanor, There’s More to Tina Than Meets the Eye

Despite her unassuming exterior, thirteen-year-old Tina is a demolitions expert who possesses an explosive personality that lends itself to the literal explosions she regularly creates. However, beneath her outgoing and unstable personality, she isn’t as happy as she appears. Valentine and Frette uncover the tragedy behind Tina in the comic’s first issue, when Valentine finds her journal and realizes that she’s been searching for other children across the wastelands of Pandora. Tiny Tina stands out as one of the only younger characters among the Borderlands cast, which fuels her loneliness.

Valentine reads more of Tina’s journal and discovers another secret. One of her drawings features a height chart that compares her small stature to her grown-up friends, and she then modifies herself to be taller by doodling herself atop a giant missile. Upon seeing these pages, Valentine says, “Tina’s obsession with bombs is how she ‘competes’ with us adults.” A long-time mystery in the series gets addressed at last, as this comic explains Tina’s fixation on explosions. Being a child creates a rift between her and the people around her, so she bridges that gap in her own destructive way to feel as big and powerful as them.

Tiny Tina may act like she doesn’t have a care in the world as she blows up enemies left and right, but she’s more pained than she lets on. After all, she originally discovered explosives by using a bomb to escape Hyperion imprisonment after her parents were captured, so her lore has already been tragic. Luckily, Tina now has friends to ward off her sorrow – even if they aren’t the child playmates she seeks. Her smile as Valentine and Frette assure her they enjoy her B&B games will warm any reader’s heart, and moments like that demonstrate why Tiny Tina is considered one of the best Borderlands characters.

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Has A Great Follow-Up, Even If There’s No Game Sequel

Borderlands Fans, Don’t Miss Tiny Tina’s Most Heartwarming Story Yet

As one of the games’ most endearing figures, Tiny Tina deserves the spotlight in more stories, and Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands: Land of the Giants gives her the narrative exploration she needs. Moreover, in addition to her character motivations being fleshed out, she gets to conduct a wacky Bunkers & Badasses campaign that will leave any reader in stitches thanks to the series’ signature hilarity. Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands may not be receiving a sequel just yet, but the Borderlands comics have given fans a surprise sequel that carries on Tina’s story in a compelling way that no one saw coming.

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands: Land of the Giants #1-3 are available now from Dark Horse Comics, and all three issues will be collected in paperback format on February 25th, 2025!

Borderlands

Created by

Jeramy Cooke, Mark Darin, Randy Pitchford

Character(s)

Roland, Lilith (Borderlands), Mordecai (Borderlands, Brick, Claptrap, Patricia Tannis, Axton (Borderlands), Maya, Salvador (Borderlands), Zer0 (Borderlands), Gaige (Borderlands), Kreig, Amara (Borderlands), Moze (Borderlands), Zane (Borderlands), FL4K (Borderlands), Tiny Tina (Borderlands)

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Released

March 25, 2022

ESRB

T For Teen due to Blood, Crude, Humor, Language, Partial Nudity, Suggestive Themes, Violence

Publisher(s)

2K