After 8 Years, Gravity Falls Is Resurrecting 4 Lost Legends

It has been eight years since Disney Press released Gravity Falls: Lost Legends, but the strange little town created by Alex Hirsch is getting another chance to reach fans in a new format. The four-story Gravity Falls graphic novel is officially heading to WEBTOON in 2027, giving longtime viewers an easy way to revisit adventures that continued the spirit of the beloved animated series.

That timing makes the announcement especially interesting. Gravity Falls itself ended in 2016 after just two seasons and 40 episodes, yet its mysteries, characters, and strange lore have remained unusually long-lasting. Rather than reviving the television series, Disney is bringing back Lost Legends, a collection that already functions as one of the franchise's most important post-finale stories.

Gravity Falls: Lost Legends originally arrived on July 24, 2018, through Disney Press. Written by Hirsch, the 144-page graphic novel was built around four new adventures featuring familiar characters, while Shmebulock serves as the peculiar narrator connecting everything together. The book became a New York Times bestseller, helping establish it as more than ordinary franchise merchandise.

The WEBTOON release was announced during D23's “Future of Digital Comics: Disney, Marvel, & WEBTOON” presentation. Disney is extending Lost Legends to a platform associated with mobile-first comics, potentially introducing the material to readers who never picked up the original hardcover. The new digital release is scheduled for 2027, rather than arriving immediately in 2026.

For fans returning after years away, that distinction matters. This is not a newly produced fourth season or an animated continuation of Dipper and Mabel's summer. Instead, it is a resurrection of four previously published stories that remain part of the broader Gravity Falls experience, giving older fans and newer readers another route into Hirsch's strange corner of Disney storytelling.

Four Gavity Falls Stories And Four Very Different Mysteries

The first story, “Face It,” puts Pacifica Northwest at the center of a bizarre supernatural problem. After Pacifica turns to magic for help with a facial imperfection, a creature steals Mabel's face. Dipper and Pacifica then find themselves dealing with monsters and an underground supernatural marketplace while trying to repair the damage.

“Comix Up” takes a completely different approach by trapping Stan inside a comic-book world. The concept lets Gravity Falls play with multiple visual styles while placing Stan in an adventure that feels tailor-made for the character's chaotic personality. “Don't Dimension It” similarly embraces the show's love of alternate realities, sending Mabel into a multiverse populated by different versions of herself.

The final tale, “Pines Brothers: The Jersey Devil's in the Details,” goes further back in the family history. It follows a younger Stanley and Stanford Pines as they pursue a supernatural jewel thief. That story expands the brothers' past while giving readers another glimpse of the relationship that eventually becomes one of the series' emotional foundations.

Why Gravity Falls Still Has A Life Beyond TV

One reason Lost Legends continues to matter is the level of involvement from Hirsch himself. The creator wrote the entire collection, while artists including Dana Terrace, Asaf Hanuka, Meredith Gran, Jacob Chabot, Priscilla Tang, and others helped translate the series' visual personality into comics. The result allowed Gravity Falls to keep experimenting without extending its television run.

The franchise has also remained active through projects such as Journal 3 and the 2024 bestseller The Book of Bill. Those releases showed that there was still an audience for deeper material surrounding the Pines family, Bill Cipher, and the mythology left behind by the original show. Lost Legends now joins that expanding collection in an increasingly accessible format.

Most importantly, WEBTOON gives these four forgotten adventures a second life nearly a decade after their original publication. For a series that ended deliberately rather than running for years, that feels fitting. Gravity Falls may remain finished on television, but “Face It,” “Comix Up,” “Don't Dimension It,” and “Pines Brothers” are getting another opportunity to bring that wonderfully weird world back to readers in 2027.