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Dragonlance Graphic Novels, September 3, 2009
This review is from: Dragonlance Chronicles Volume 3: Dragon's of Spring Dawning 2 HC (Dragonlance Chronicles (Devil's Due Publishing)) (v. 4, Pt. 2) (Hardcover)
The Dragonlance novels by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman are loved by huge numbers of fans, and the stories have basically formed a world of their own. The books are well written. The characters are memorable, and the action is nonstop. The books are great fun to read.
I'm sure the graphic novels of Dragonlance are less well known, but they are also extremely well done and great fun to read. As listed below, the saga starts with the three volumes of Chronicles and then moves on to Legends.
Chronicles, Book I: Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Chronicles, Book II: Dragons of Winter Night
Chronicles, Book III: Dragons of Spring Dawning (2 books)
Legends: Time of the Twins
The illustrations in the graphic novels are outstanding and seemed to fit fine with the pictures I had formed in my mind of the various characters. The action sequences stand up to scrutiny by the reader, and dragons are all over the place. However, reading these books cannot possibly be the same as reading the originals. The graphic format has its limitations, so the depth of the original stories is not here but the spirit certainly is. I recommend the books highly to all Dragonlance fans. Please keep in mind that you should read the novels first. Otherwise, keeping track of the action in the stories could be difficult.
One unfortunate note is that Time of the Twins may be the only volume published in graphic format from Legends. My understanding is that the publisher has no plans to put out succeeding books from Legends. That is too bad.
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An Epic reaches its climax, July 6, 2011
This review is from: Dragonlance Chronicles Volume 3: Dragon's of Spring Dawning 2 HC (Dragonlance Chronicles (Devil's Due Publishing)) (v. 4, Pt. 2) (Hardcover)
This second part of "Dragons of Spring Dawning" was certainly quite difficult to adapt. The drama, suspense, horror and comic reliefs are what makes this story one of the classic and most well known high adventure epic sagas; in this comic its superbly adapted and faithfully translated into comics. Again Andrew Dabb had done a very impressive work.
Although the artwork is imho inferior to the two first books in the series, it is superior to part one of "Dragons of Spring Dawning". Oscar Jimenez, Pere Perez and Julius Gopez share a vision and a similar drawing style (there are no cartoonish chapters in this volume).
The cover gallery is stunning, long live Jeremy Roberts, Tyler Walpole, Julius Gopez and Katie de Souza.
Very worthy conclusion of this Epic Saga - Dragonlance Chronicles.
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