World of Warcraft
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Very good comic
Excellent story of the King of Stormwind and the overall comic is well put together. The images are well drawn and it is overall very good. Helps explain why the King is back now in the game. Recommend for all the lore people and non lore people alike.
4 Stars A Fun and Well-Written Expansion of the Warcraft Story
Being fairly new to the World of Warcraft, I didn’t know a ton about the back story of the game. I’m reading the first Warcraft Archive to make up for that. But the first thing I read was this graphic novel. Being a stand alone story set during the time period of the game (most of the novels deal with past events in the previous Warcraft PC games) I thought this would be easier to get into.
It’s written by Walter Simonson, legendary writer of Marvel’s Thor, as well as far too many other books to recount here. He does a great job of establishing the characters and making you care about them for the most part. I found the story to be engaging and I certainly want to read more soon. It’s too bad that the next collection doesn’t come out until May of 2009. At least until then we’ll have the Ashbringer mini-series collected.
As for the art, I have to say I liked it for the most part. There were a few times when I got a little lost, especially during one fight scene where I kept getting confused about who the various combatants were. But it was fairly minor.
3 Stars From PC to paper, does it translate?
I am a longtime fan of the Warcraft game series going all the way back to Warcraft: Orcs & Humans the first PC title.
I have been buying this comic since the first issue came out and by issue 10 I have yet to be totally impressed. First off don’t be fooled by the cover art of this trade collection, neither Samewise nor Metzen (the usual Warcraft artists) contribute art to the inside of this book. The art’s not bad it’s just nothing like what we’re used to seeing over the years. The story is a rather blandly told romp of a cast of characters that begins similarly to the movie Gladiator. The story centers on an amnesic Human Warrior, a Blood Elf and a Night Elf Druid who must band together to rise through the ranks of arena fights and ultimately overthrow their Orc master and discover the true destiny of said amnesic human. Would you believe that destiny might involve becoming a noble warrior and hero of the land? I guess you’ll have to read to find out but let’s just say this book is filled with a fair amount of clich
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