“Created with the cooperation of the Jordan estate, adapted by well-known comics writer Chuck Dixon and illustrated by the talented Chase Conley, The Eye of the World: The Graphic Novel has been hailed as an exciting interpretation of Robert Jordan’s classic fantasy novel. This volume features brilliant interior art by Andie Tong.

In The Eye of the World: the Graphic Novel, Volume Four, Rand and Mat, Perrin and Egwene, and their friends and fellow travelers separated into three groups and trying to make their way to Caemlyn as quickly as possible. Perrin and Egwene have fallen in with Elyas and his wolf companions. Perrin is both distressed and intrigued when he discovers that he can understand the wolves. When Thom is apparently killed defending them, Rand and Mat are grief-stricken, but they have no time to mourn, for they know that Darkfriends will soon be on their trail. The boys put Thom’s lessons to good use by performing as gleemen to earn their livelihood as they head along the Caemlyn Road. Moiraine begins to teach a reluctant Nynaeve the way of the One Power, challenging much that the Wisdom thought she understood about the world. Soon all three groups find themselves pursued by Darkfriends. Will they be safely reunited or will their enemies begin to pick them off, one by one?” 

[Text from the publisher’s website]

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The graphic novel adaptation of Wheels of Time TV series on Amazon Prime Video (and, above all, of Robert Jordan’s fantasy novels series) continues with a fourth volume (I have already commented on volumes one, two and three).  As I have already said, the comic summarizes the story of the novel very well (as it is much more faithful to the novels than the TV series) but the art is really inconstant as the artist changes with each volume. In some cases, the art is rather ugly and it’s distracting from the reading. It was so tedious that I had decided to abandon reading this series, but curiosity got the best of me. And this fourth volume, illustrated by Andre Tong, is better but it is still far from a masterpiece. It is nevertheless entertaining and the graphic novel is a good way to avoid reading the lengthy novel series (while waiting for the next season of the TV adaptation). An average comics if you are curious about the story.

The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World  GN #4, by Chuck Dixon (Based on the novel by Robert Jordan) with Andie Tong (Illustrator). New York: Tor Books, December 2023. 176 pages, 6 5/8 x 10 1/8 in., US $21.99 / CAN $28.99, ISBN 978-0-7653-3631-6. For a teenage readership (12+).

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