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\nBy Raphael Ahad<\/b>, Robert Brooks<\/b>, Matt Burns<\/b>, Christie Golden<\/b>, Micky Neilson<\/b>, Andrew Robinson<\/b>, Antonio Bifulco<\/b>, Linda Cavallini<\/b>, Sebastian Cheng<\/b>, Alex Horley<\/b>, David Kegg<\/b>, Ludo Lullabi<\/b>, Miko Montill\u00c3\u00b3<\/b>, Nesskain<\/b>, Suqling<\/b>, Emanuele Tenderini<\/b> & various (Blizzard Entertainment\/Titan Books)
\nISBN: 978-1-95036-613-2 (HB Blizzard Entertainment) 978-1-78909-646-0 (HB Titan Books)<\/p>\n
World of Warcraft<\/b> is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) that began in 2004. It’s very popular.<\/p>\n
If you needed to look up any part of that paragraph, this might not be the book for you – although if you’re a fantasy fan with a penchant for convoluted sagas and love of bombastic comics art, it might be worth sticking around to the end of the review.<\/p>\n
Like Tolkein’s Middle Earth<\/b>, Game of Thrones<\/b> or other complex invented environments, WoW<\/b> is more about worldbuilding and made-up history than individual heroes like Conan<\/b> or Elric <\/b>excelling and triumphing. Here variety is the spice of life (and Unlife, Orc-kind, wizards, Dwarves, Gnomes, automata etc). This collection of tales – originally an online supplement and enticement to the game – might feel a little formulaic, but that’s pretty much the point\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
These lavish auxiliary tales were all released between 2014- 2018 as World of Warcraft: Warlords of Drainor<\/b>, World of Warcraft: Legion<\/b>, and World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth<\/b>: moody, action-heavy and suspenseful vignettes, packaged as digital comics miniseries specifically linked to one of the eight Expansion Packs released to sustain that frantic MMORPG mythmaking momentum.<\/p>\n
First freshly arrayed in Warlords of Draenor<\/b> as ‘Gul’Dan and the Stranger’<\/i> (by Micky Neilson & Alex Horley), the opening yarn reveals bloodshed brewing, whilst ‘Blackhand’<\/i> (Robert Brooks & Horley) details the fate of the feared and fabled Doomhammer, before ‘Blood and Thunder’<\/i> (Raphael Ahad, Cynthia Hall & Horley) offers some historical context with the origins of mighty warrior the Iron Wolf<\/i>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
Legion<\/b> opens with Matt Burns & Ludo Lullabi’s ‘Magni: Fault Lines’<\/i> as the daughter of the venerable King under the Mountain awakens him to meet the growing crisis facing the dwarves. Meanwhile, Night Elves are having a few difficulties with monstrous Gul’Dan in ‘Nightborne: Twilight of Suramar’<\/i> (Burns & Lullabi) whilst the animalistic tribes are called to action in ‘Highmountain: A Mountain Divided’<\/i> (Brooks & David Kegg) before the humans of Stormwind Keep survive a royal assassination attempt, inspiring King Wrynn<\/i> to mobilise in Brooks & Nesskain’s ‘Anduin: Son of the Wolf’<\/i>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
It ends with reports from the Battle for Azeroth<\/b>, as a repentant mage reassesses her life choices in ‘Jaina: Reunion’<\/i>(Andrew Robinson, Linda Cavallini & Emanuele Tenderini) before wandering Dwarf-King ‘Magni: The Speaker’ <\/i>(Burns & Suqling) endures a moment of existential crisis…<\/p>\n
Steve Danuser, Christie Golden, Robinson, Antonio Bifulco & Sebastian Cheng detail the past and futures of ‘Windrunner: Three Sisters’<\/i> after which the gathering storms pause with the salutary tale of ‘Mechagon’<\/i> (by Burns & Miko Montill\u00c3\u00b3), proving you should watch what you wish for even if you’re a dedicated master smith like Kervo the Explorer<\/i>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
Garnishing all the drama and mayhem, the book also offers a vast selection of production art – from preliminary designs and roughs to full finished pages – in a Sketchbook<\/i> section.<\/p>\n
Gathered into a lavish luxury hardback that just screams \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Christmas gift\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, these adventures won’t be everyone’s goblet of grog, but for those who covertly yearn to resolve their daily annoyances with a honking great Warhammer or dismemberment spell, this should be subject of your very next quest…
\nWorld of Warcraft: Comic Collection<\/b> \u00c2\u00a9 2020 Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Raphael Ahad, Robert Brooks, Matt Burns, Christie Golden, Micky Neilson, Andrew Robinson, Antonio Bifulco, Linda Cavallini, Sebastian Cheng, Alex Horley, David Kegg, Ludo Lullabi, Miko Montill\u00c3\u00b3, Nesskain, Suqling, Emanuele Tenderini & various (Blizzard Entertainment\/Titan Books) ISBN: 978-1-95036-613-2 (HB Blizzard Entertainment) 978-1-78909-646-0 (HB Titan Books) World of Warcraft is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game … <\/p>\n