A Dungeons & Dragons comic that's about monsters

Dungeons & Dragons Fanatics announced Dark Horse, who apparently acquired the franchise license 2 years ago, are publishing a comic adaptation that's about a bunch of monsters:

Dark Horse Comics is continuing its partnership with Wizards of the Coast and will be rolling out a brand new Dungeons & Dragons comic book. The series, however, won’t be following the typical heroic D&D adventuring party and instead will be focusing on a group of misfit monsters struggling to get by in the lower depths of a dungeon. [...]

Total Party Killers is a tongue-in-cheek series that flips the traditional D&D script on its head, following a group of monsters who were enslaved in a dungeon by an evil wizard named Custos. When the story begins, Custos has recently been slain by a party of adventurers and, with the monsters now free, they must band together to protect the dungeon and its loot while avoiding the hack n’ slash happy heroes who have stumbled into their lair.

I only hope this isn't some stealth attempt to make villains look like victims here, because that's what the part about "slash-happy" heroes risks making this sound like. But how amazing that IDW apparently lost the license for producing D&D comics, along with the GI Joe and Transformers franchises, which went to Image. It says near the end:

Dark Horse seems to be finding its groove with the D&D license (which they acquired back in July 2024). In fact, the partnership has been pretty successful, with recent releases like the Fallbacks series (based on the D&D novels of the same name) being generally well received by both comic and D&D fans. With Total Party Killers, Dark Horse is now introducing its own original characters and exploring the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse in a way we haven’t really every seen before.

There's one problem: are we expected to embrace monsters over the main heroes here? If that's their idea, it's not one I can get behind. And I certainly won't overlook any continuing wokefying the D&D franchise could still be going through in any medium.

I guess I can understand though, why IDW's struggling to find any traction in the industry now that they've lost more permits for adapting merchandise to comicdom. It does serve as an important lesson why it's unwise to rely solely upon licensing for moneymaking.