Customer Reviews

Warlands: Volume 1 Darklyte

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4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The artwork, like everything else about this book, is very generic. The story cobbled together vampires and Record of the Lodoss War, the characters rather uninteresting and cliched (Let's kill people randomly because we are eeevil vampires!!), and even the drawings could have been taken from a dozen other comic books. I didn't find one iota of originality any where between the covers.

The tagline is that it is a merger of anime and comics. I'd say it's more a merger of Korean manwha style with Image style comics. The lead character looks exactly like the Crimson comic hero. The dryad/elves like humans with pointy ears. And the same old same old character drawings: older powerful guys are suitably square jawed and heavy browed, an army of vampires all look suitably cross with furrowed brows, peasants have their bushy moustaches, and the main characters will look youngish with more hair.

I had to slug through it after the half way point. The plot was ridiculous and overlymelodramatic. And let's not mention very obvious and glaring spelling or grammar issues.

Warlands is a great comic series, undoubtedly, the first few comics are a little clumsy, but the series really blows up into an epic fantasy adventure.
The idea of an apocalyptic war against legions of vampires isn't a new one, but how its presented in the first few volumes of Warlands is addicting, you really cannot get enough of the action!

All I can say about this book is that it is fantastic - The artwork is great, the storyline builds up well with some good action, but here's the problem: It ends on an almighty cliffhanger and the sequel is no longer available. I would give this book 5 stars except I don't know how the story ends... :-(

Volume 1 introduces readers to the land of Warlands by introducing a great story and unbelievable artwork. The story is different type, but not hard to follow since it uses a lot of elements from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The cast of characters is brought together well, and the Darklyte story is a setting for other Warlands events that happen down the road. Most action is in Volume 2, but this is still worth the money, especially if readers are tired of the typical superhero books. Highly reccomend this one

Starts out slow, but there is something intriguing about this new take on the vampire/elves/knights story. Artwork is Beautiful. The story is engaging yet a little predictable, however there are some surprising plot twists. One problem is that the Narrative Text (font, color, and size) is hard to read. If you have a little extra pocket money, pick this one up.

I agree with the other reviewer on just about everything, and I just want to add this. The darkness of the work is because the villians are vampires and can't do out in sunlight; but, except for that, they don't seem very horrific. I mean their evil and turn everybody into vampires or use them for food etc.; but none of it is shown and I didn't really get a feeling of them being any different from any other baddie out to take over the world. I'm hoping this is all because of story exposition and plot development, and it'll be made clearer in upcoming editions. That said..It was interesting, holds promise, and I give it 4*.