Dragonlance - Chronicles Volume 3: Dragons Of Spring Dawning Part 1 (Dragonlance Chronicles) (v. 3, Pt. 1)
The climactic chapter in Weis and Hickman’s acclaimed trilogy! Armed with the legendary Dragonlance, the Companions begin the final battle against the evil goddess Takhisis and her legions! But even as hope begins to spring, secrets long hidden threaten to render their sacrifices meaningless! The greatest conflict they have left is within each of them…
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5 Stars Dragonlance Graphic Novels
The Dragonlance novels by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman are loved by huge numbers of fans, and the stories have basically formed a world of their own. The books are well written. The characters are memorable, and the action is nonstop. The books are great fun to read.
I’m sure the graphic novels of Dragonlance are less well known, but they are also extremely well done and great fun to read. As listed below, the saga starts with the three volumes of Chronicles and then moves on to Legends.
Chronicles, Book I: Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Chronicles, Book II: Dragons of Winter Night
Chronicles, Book III: Dragons of Spring Dawning (2 books)
Legends: Time of the Twins
The illustrations in the graphic novels are outstanding and seemed to fit fine with the pictures I had formed in my mind of the various characters. The action sequences stand up to scrutiny by the reader, and dragons are all over the place. However, reading these books cannot possibly be the same as reading the originals. The graphic format has its limitations, so the depth of the original stories is not here but the spirit certainly is. I recommend the books highly to all Dragonlance fans. Please keep in mind that you should read the novels first. Otherwise, keeping track of the action in the stories could be difficult.
One unfortunate note is that Time of the Twins may be the only volume published in graphic format from Legends. My understanding is that the publisher has no plans to put out succeeding books from Legends. That is too bad.
4 Stars I love this series!
What’s to say? I LOVE THIS SERIES.
I loved the Dragonlance Chronicles when they first came out (I bought my copy of Dragons of Autumn Twilight in 1984). I still judge all Dungeons & Dragons novels (and others of its genre, game-related fantasy) by this series. This is a faithful adaptation with excellent artwork.
My only criticism is a relatively small one, and not about the book itself: it is not easily available. I ordered it three separate times on Amazon (starting with an early pre-order) before Amazon actually got one in stock for me (twice Amazon cancelled the order, because they couldn’t get the item in stock in a reasonable time frame).
Devil’s Due Publishing is doing a great job with this series, as they have with the Drizzt novels. I hope they keep going!
5 Stars Still good work
This is the comic adaption of the third part of the Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy, first published in 1984. Unlike the first two adaptions, this one was split up into two parts.
While the first two adaptions were exclusively drawn by Kurth, this comic is drawn by three other artists. I do not think this was a good idea, consistence would have been better. Furthermore one of the new artists has a style which is a little bit too comic-like.
Moreover the pages are framed. In the previous books they were fully printed, which I felt was artistically more appealing.
Nevertheless the drawings are good and the story adaption by Dabb is still worth a compliment. Since four and a half stars are not possible I give 5 stars.
5 Stars Absolutely brilliant
Another awesome job by Devils Due and the team. If you are a fan, this is a must have!
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