Hubris Comics (Fallout 4) (2024)

	For the company, see Hubris Comics (company).

“While primarily a publishing house, Hubris Comics had begun to expand into radio, television and toys. The Silver Shroud and Grognak the Barbarian were two of its most popular properties.”— Fallout 4 loading screens

Hubris Comics is a location in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston in Fallout 4. It is just west of Swan's Pond.

Background

A local store and office of Hubris Comics, publishers of classic graphic novels before the Great War. The location also served as office space for production staff and as a television studio.^{[Pub 1]}

Publications

“This is the local store and office of Hubris Comics, publishers of classic graphic novels. In addition to the downstairs shop, the building also includes offices for the production staff a small television studio on the fourth floor.
Be sure to thoroughly inspect the store for collectibles! Look for the storeroom key in one of the cash registers and the office key in the desk upstairs. Don’t forget Grognak’s Axe in the display case, his costume by the exit ladder to the roof, and the Silver Shroud Photo and costume (the latter of which is necessary for the specified quest). There’s a prop gun hidden behind the stage backdrop, and one locked room even has an unreleased script!”— Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Map

Layout

The building is small, with only four floors. The first floor features the shop, progressing to offices on the second and third floors, and a television studio on the fourth floor. The entire building is infested by feral ghouls, with a glowing one on the top floor. A terminal is available on the top floor that allows the player character to control stage lights for the Silver Shroud set and also play the Silver Shroud theme over the system speakers.

Loot

First floor

• Scavenger's Lead - Note found just outside, on the corpse of a scavenger.
• Grognak's axe - In an Advanced-locked display case, behind the shop counter. The case can also be opened by hacking the nearby Advanced terminal.
• Unstoppables issue #5 - On the shop counter next to the cash register on the right, opposite Grognak's axe.
• Hubris Comics storeroom key - On the shop counter inside the cash register on the right. It opens the storeroom behind the counter and the Expert-locked wall safe in the storeroom.
• Scavenger's Note (non-quest version) - On a dead scavenger inside the restroom.
• Manager's note - In a wooden crate behind a Novice locked door.
• Several Graphic T-shirts - In the wooden crate mentioned before.

Second floor

• Scavenger's List - On a corpse through the nearby doorway and a hole in the wall to the right of the top of the stairs from the first floor. It is under one of the two sets of stairs which lead to the third floor.
• Silver Shroud Photo - Inside an office to the right of the top of the stairs from the first floor. Located in a broken display case, next to a bat and baseball.
• Hubris Comics office key - In a room to the south, in the desk with the manager's terminal. Another copy can be found underneath a desk just outside the manager's door.
• Nuka-Cola Quantum - In the break room to the southeast, on the ground next to a Nuka-Cola machine.

Third floor

• Silver Shroud script - In the office behind an Expert-locked door, which can be opened with the Hubris Comics office key.
• Grape Mentats - One on the desk with the writer's terminal.

Fourth floor

• Grognak costume - On a locker shelf in the southwest corner.
• Silver Shroud Costume - On a mannequin.
• Silver Shroud Hat - On the same mannequin as the costume.
• Silver Submachine Gun Prop - Behind the backdrop.
• Astoundingly Awesome Tales issue #4 - In the bathroom on an end table.
• Grape Mentats - Two in the bathroom, in a Novice-locked suitcase behind the door.
• Director's notes - Holotape, on a table next to a non-functioning TV, during the quest Method to the Madness.

Roof

• Jenny's diary - Note, on a crate next to the skeleton of Jenny, during the quest Method to the Madness.
• Extra's notes - Note, on a table with a parasol, during the quest Method to the Madness.

Related quests

Notes

When at this location, companions make comments, which are activated at two locations: the shop floor and in the top floor studio.

Appearances

This Hubris Comics only appears in Fallout 4.

Gallery

• The Silver Shroud costume at the top floor

• Silver Submachine Gun Prop

• Silver Shroud Photo

• Silver Shroud script

• Grognak's axe

• Grognak costume

• Astoundingly Awesome Tales

• Unstoppables

• Scavenger's Lead

• Scavenger's Note

• Scavenger's List

• Graphic t-shirts and Manager's note

• Hubris Comics office key

• Jangles on a lavatory break

• Hubris Comics wall advertisem*nt

References