A sprawling series, it was started in 1990 by Robert Jordan and was only recently concluded by Brandon Sanderson in 2013. Eye of the World Vol. 5 is barely into the first book of the series and there were 13 chunky novels so the current output of the graphic novel means the last book won't arrive until 2035... if the world exists in a form that makes socio-economic sense to still be dealing with, ahem, comic books.
A lot of that has to do with the fact that the graphic novel sticks very close to the original source material -- there appears to be no artistic license taken when it comes to the dialogue and pacing of the overall story. That's another way of saying, "It's a real page-turner!"
The art and drawing is good, is somewhat untextured. A lot of the visual elements are flat without much details. It's as if they were turning the Wheel of Time into an anime or magna. It's not terrible, but with the introduction of Loial -- the wandering Ogier -- my mind's eye expected more wrinkles of details (if that makes any sense).
Volume 5 has some really good break points. As protagonist Rand al'Thor and friends access The Ways the book ends and I wanted to keep reading. To that, I wonder why the writer doesn't include chapters and page numbers from the book so readers have the option of comparing against the source.
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- Aaron Simmer
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