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A review by isabellarobinson7
Eye of the World: The Graphic Novel, Volume Three by Chuck Dixon
4.5
Rating: 4.5 stars
The quality of these graphic novels continues to astound me. Chuck Dixon did an amazing job of condensing The Eye of the World, and he managed to somehow walk the fine line between cutting too much so the story becomes merely a skeletal outline of it's original novel format, but not leaving too much in so that every page us chockablock full of 10+ centimetre-sized speech bubbles. But I do think that Volume Two was better than this volume.
But good things first, right? We got to see some more channeling this this volume, with Moiraine using more of the Five Powers that had not previously been illustrated in the graphic novels. She used Fire to get rid of some Trollocs and Halfmen and stuff:
She also used a weave of Air, which I thought was depicted well:
And there was also some weaves of Spirit, but I showed a picture in my review for the second volume, which I think is a better representation that anything in this volume.
We also got to see Elyas in this volume! I really like Elyas' character, and his past is interesting to wonder about. Anyway, this is what Elyas looked like:
His golden eyes are cool, and I look forward to seeing the goldening (shut up spellcheck, that's a word) of Perrin's in further volumes. We got a hint of it here, with his eyes a shade of lighter brown than his usual dark colouring (oooooooh I just had a thought about the TV show coming from Amazon and how cool golden eyes are going to look on Marcus Rutherford who's playing Perrin).
Now for some icky things. Volume Three begins with the main cast escaping Shadar Logoth with Trollocs and Myrddraal on their heels before being separated and having to continue their journey apart in three individual groups. Perrin and Egwene end up with Elyas and then later the Tinkers, and for some reason, Egwene look really... strange:
Is it just me, or does Egwene not look the best in this image. I'm not knocking the artists at all, they've been phenomenal in all that I've read so far, but... I can't explain it any other way than just saying she looks weird. And it was a consistent thing too. Specifically with Egwene's character.
In this illustration, she looks like a freaking Wight from the Peculiar Children series. Don't believe me? Look it up, I'm not going to all the trouble to finding a picture and whatnot (seriously Goodreads, you need to find a better system for inserting images in a review). I guess I'm just disappointed, because Egwene looked really awesome up until now, and I hope this is only a one off event.
But nothing is going to stop me from reading the rest of the volumes, because it's Wheel of Time, and when it comes to Wheel of Time, I loose all self control.
The quality of these graphic novels continues to astound me. Chuck Dixon did an amazing job of condensing The Eye of the World, and he managed to somehow walk the fine line between cutting too much so the story becomes merely a skeletal outline of it's original novel format, but not leaving too much in so that every page us chockablock full of 10+ centimetre-sized speech bubbles. But I do think that Volume Two was better than this volume.
But good things first, right? We got to see some more channeling this this volume, with Moiraine using more of the Five Powers that had not previously been illustrated in the graphic novels. She used Fire to get rid of some Trollocs and Halfmen and stuff:
She also used a weave of Air, which I thought was depicted well:
And there was also some weaves of Spirit, but I showed a picture in my review for the second volume, which I think is a better representation that anything in this volume.
We also got to see Elyas in this volume! I really like Elyas' character, and his past is interesting to wonder about. Anyway, this is what Elyas looked like:
His golden eyes are cool, and I look forward to seeing the goldening (shut up spellcheck, that's a word) of Perrin's in further volumes. We got a hint of it here, with his eyes a shade of lighter brown than his usual dark colouring (oooooooh I just had a thought about the TV show coming from Amazon and how cool golden eyes are going to look on Marcus Rutherford who's playing Perrin).
Now for some icky things. Volume Three begins with the main cast escaping Shadar Logoth with Trollocs and Myrddraal on their heels before being separated and having to continue their journey apart in three individual groups. Perrin and Egwene end up with Elyas and then later the Tinkers, and for some reason, Egwene look really... strange:
Is it just me, or does Egwene not look the best in this image. I'm not knocking the artists at all, they've been phenomenal in all that I've read so far, but... I can't explain it any other way than just saying she looks weird. And it was a consistent thing too. Specifically with Egwene's character.
In this illustration, she looks like a freaking Wight from the Peculiar Children series. Don't believe me? Look it up, I'm not going to all the trouble to finding a picture and whatnot (seriously Goodreads, you need to find a better system for inserting images in a review). I guess I'm just disappointed, because Egwene looked really awesome up until now, and I hope this is only a one off event.
But nothing is going to stop me from reading the rest of the volumes, because it's Wheel of Time, and when it comes to Wheel of Time, I loose all self control.