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Warlands #1
Warlands: Darklyte
Welcome to Warlands, a fantasy world of Myth and magic against the backdrop of a world in the grip of a global-scale war against the Vampire Hordes of Datara. Bent on the conquest of the entire realm, Malagen the Black, Kahn of Datara, embarks on an unholy war to obtain the legendary Darklyte armor, an artifact fabled to the nexus of all manner of magical energy. Join our heroes in the aches of their ruined homeland as they struggle against the dark to save the world from total annihilation.
184 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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July 22, 2015
Solid concept. Amazing-looking art. So, why 3 stars?
Flat writing. Can't tell what the hell is going on most of the time visually. Kind of a mess.
Sure am purty, though.
Flat writing. Can't tell what the hell is going on most of the time visually. Kind of a mess.
Sure am purty, though.
May 9, 2022
I had one issue of this when it first came out.
Anime was just starting to get bigger here, at least in my little neck of the woods, and so I enjoyed the visual aesthetic.
But the story is not so bad either. The characters aren’t especially compelling, but the great art work fills the gaps, and the fantasy tropes are good for what ails you.
I just picked up Volume 2, and will likely read the entire run of each series. I’m just digging it at the moment.
What is most refreshing about this comic is that it is surprisingly void of giant tits. I don’t have a problem with giant tits, or any tits for that matter. I just get tired of huge tits and string bikinis as a seminal trope in fantasy graphic novels.
Anime was just starting to get bigger here, at least in my little neck of the woods, and so I enjoyed the visual aesthetic.
But the story is not so bad either. The characters aren’t especially compelling, but the great art work fills the gaps, and the fantasy tropes are good for what ails you.
I just picked up Volume 2, and will likely read the entire run of each series. I’m just digging it at the moment.
What is most refreshing about this comic is that it is surprisingly void of giant tits. I don’t have a problem with giant tits, or any tits for that matter. I just get tired of huge tits and string bikinis as a seminal trope in fantasy graphic novels.
April 10, 2013
The artwork, like everything else about this book, is very generic. The story cobbled together vampires and Record of the Lodoss War, the characters rather uninteresting and cliched (Let's kill people randomly because we are eeevil vampires!!), and even the drawings could have been taken from a dozen other comic books. I didn't find one iota of originality any where between the covers.
The tagline is that it is a merger of anime and comics. I'd say it's more a merger of Korean manwha style with Image style comics. The lead character looks exactly like the Crimson comic hero. The dryad/elves like humans with pointy ears. And the same old same old character drawings: older powerful guys are suitably square jawed and heavy browed, an army of vampires all look suitably cross with furrowed brows, peasants have their bushy moustaches, and the main characters will look youngish with more hair.
I had to slug through it after the half way point. The plot was ridiculous and overlymelodramatic. And let's not mention very obvious and glaring spelling or grammar issues.
The tagline is that it is a merger of anime and comics. I'd say it's more a merger of Korean manwha style with Image style comics. The lead character looks exactly like the Crimson comic hero. The dryad/elves like humans with pointy ears. And the same old same old character drawings: older powerful guys are suitably square jawed and heavy browed, an army of vampires all look suitably cross with furrowed brows, peasants have their bushy moustaches, and the main characters will look youngish with more hair.
I had to slug through it after the half way point. The plot was ridiculous and overlymelodramatic. And let's not mention very obvious and glaring spelling or grammar issues.
September 20, 2013
Pretty much your standard, Lodoss-Chronicles inspired fantasy fest. I would probably give it a better grade were I not absolutely tired of this topic in particular. Still, it introduces enough twists and original ideas for me to want to keep reading it.
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