Customer Reviews

WarCraft: The Sunwell Trilogy - (Ultimate Edition) (v. 1)

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This is a beautifully illustrated collection of the Sunwell Trilogy, a manga-styled graphic novel released from Tokyopop. The hardcover, Ultimate collection combines all three graphic novels bound together in this hardcover book with full color intro. Included within a brand new sealed copy is a pin up poster and a card from the WoW trading card game. It's a nice edition to any WoW collector's library or who are interested in Fantasy graphic novels.

The art was great! Loved the story and the fact that it was all in one book!

This is a 3 Part Manga Style Graphic Novel. The story begins and ends with this book. The story describes the creation of the Sunwell.

The artwork is black and white and really well drawn. The characters' personalities are all fairly flat. The main character is a dragon in human form, that temporarily loses his ability to transform into a dragon. He's pretty standard as far as heroes go. The story is also fairly straightforward.

I had a problem with the story because this book has a pretty big flaw. They sacrifice the reader's suspension of disbelief for a plot twist later on. When this happens, you usually stop caring about the story. If you pick up this book and you think something seems strange or weird in the first part, just keep reading. It gets explained later.

Overall, the story isn't bad; it's just flat. I mostly liked the book for the art.

Pick this up if the Sunwell really interests you, you like Manga Fantasy Art, or you collect WoW stuff.

Avoid this one if Manga Art turns you off or if you like complex stories and great characters.

Let's be straight here. Warcraft: The Sunwell Trilogy is manga for young fantasy and video game enthusiasts, not literary aficionados.

The book opens with a fully colored, eight-page spread that introduces the reader to past events, then slams the reader with another eight pages of solid text on the history of the WarCraft universe. Not kidding. It actually begins with, "No one knows exactly how the universe began . . ." While this may be fascinating to any fan of the franchise, it's not all that necessary to the manga itself.

Kelecgos is a young man making his own way in the world, but it can be difficult when you're also a blue dragon and bounty hunters are on your tail. Kalecgos gets caught in a net but is rescued by a local maiden named Anveena. She helps Kalecgos make an escape at the cost of her family's wellbeing.

While on the run, they cross paths with an elfin sorcerer named Dar'Khan, who believes that the two know something about the legendary lost Sunwell. The Sunwell was the fountain of the high elves' society centuries ago. With the blessing of the evil Lord Arthras, Dar'Khan seeks to capture the power of the Sunwell.

The story unfolds very much like a typical role-playing video game, which is one reason it could make for a decent introduction to manga for young readers. Form a party, travel the world, do battle, rinse, repeat until the climactic battle at the end. It's very typical, but the formula works. Another reason novice readers may enjoy this as a transitional manga is because the pages read left to right like American graphic novels. It also offers a very strong east-meet-west art style with well-proportioned characters and plenty of attention to detail.

More advanced readers may find themselves banging their heads against a wall over the clichéd dialogue choices and complete irrelevance of many characters. Even Kalecgos himself is not vital to the plot. This is Anveena's story, which just happens to be told through Kalecgos's eyes. The plot gets overly complicated and padded with scenes that serve little to no purpose. Really, why do we have to meet Baron Mordis and his Tauren servant, Trag? In a longer, episodic series, their scenes would make sense; but this is a trilogy, where every scene should serve a purpose and be to the point.

Deep breath. Let it go.

Sometimes it's just necessary to let go of being nitpicky and simply know that somewhere, this manga is getting someone to read more than a couple lines from an NPC in Northshire Valley. No, gamers are not illiterate. We like books just as much as the next person. Some of us just need a little push to get started, and Warcraft: The Sunwell Trilogy could be a way to do that.

-- Courtney Kraft

Very easy read. Despite its size its a very fast story to get through. Art work is great and overall presentation of the book is worth the price alone. Im not into the gaming world of Warcraft but did like this book alot.

I really enjoyed this book, the illustration was wonderful, and the story line was good. I especially liked the character development sketches that you get with the ultimate edition. Well worth it if you are a fan of Warcraft, or just a fan of graphic novels.

Firstly I'll talk about the cost. It is a good deal as you'll be able to get 3 volumes into a hardcover book at a much discounted price.

The story wise is wonderful and the drawings are amazing. However the lack of colours makes the Manga not as visually appealing as it should be.

i got this book cos i am now addicted to WoW and it was good cos i play blood elf. it was good, but only took me like about 3hrs to read, so longetivity was not a strong point.

the illustrations were good, but i felt it kinda swayed between more serious/darker fantasy style and cuter manga style, which wasn't so great.

getting to see Sylvanas in action was great though! haha

overall, a pretty good book. considering it was pretty cheap, i'd say it's worth it, but don't expect something mind blowingly great?

This is not a book. It is a comic book style graphic novel. I want to make sure people know what they're buying. I was disappointed because Iwas expecting a novel.