The Eye of the World: The Graphic Novel, Volume One (Wheel of Time Other, 1) Paperback – May 28, 2013

I must preface this by admitting that I am a Wheel of Time collector: Hardcovers, paperbacks, British editions, young adult editions, you name it. I even thought that The World of the Wheel of Time was great, despite the horrific character artwork. So for me to give this five stars might not be as weighty as a New York Times Book Review, but I will at least explain in my attempt to help guide people in whether or not they should spend their $ for this.If you're not a Wheel of Time fan, you should pick up the "regular" book first (that would be The Eye of the World). It's not that you'd be lost if you read this -- the story is pretty easy to pick up (the graphic novel covers the first 147 pages of the paperback, plus the prologue and also the "Ravens" prologue seen in the YA edition). It's just that I don't think it would mean as much.To fans of WOT -- which is probably most of you -- I would say grab it, with one caveat. The characters and places will often not look as they do in your head, possibly to your lessened enjoyment. But how can they? People even disagreed with Robert Jordan on how to pronounce some character names, so how can we agree on how Rand al'Thor is supposed to look? But that's where I got some of my enjoyment. Even though I've still never seen a satisfactory Trolloc, it's worth it to see other people's interpretations of RJ's work, even if it might disagree with mine.Having said that, what about specifics? Following the basic character descriptions in the books, they get them right. They have their basic traits; of course, if they were going to do this project at all, they had *better*. Rand is tall and has red hair, Nynaeve has her braid, and Moiraine wears blue (although sometimes I have trouble telling Mat and Perrin apart). But even more: Cenn Buie looks just as old and cranky as he should, Lews Therin looks sad and demented at the same time, and I happen to think that Thom's coat looks perfect.I don't always agree with the artists' choices. Sometimes the late-teen Egwene looks younger than her 9-year-old self, and I wish they would've drawn a Draghkar up close. But like I said, the mind's eye. My housemate, a WOTfreak too, didn't like how some of the background faces were half-drawn, but that didn't bother me.There are bonus materials that might help you decide: a cover gallery that includes a full-page portrait of the 13 Forsaken (they're not labeled, which is kind of annoying as Mesaana and Moghedien look almost identical), and bonus character sketches, including some for people not even in this book (Min, Loial), giving hope that there will be more to come.If nothing else, you'll get your money's worth if you read it, share it with another WOTmaniac, and spend awhile arguing about it.My rating: 5 out of 5 (and yes, I'll buy a British edition if they slap a different cover on it)

I was so glad when all the details and conflicts had been settled between Tor and the producers of the comics based on the Wheel of Time series. Being a big fan of the series, I had been trying to find the comics as they came out, but only ended up with the first three. After that, all went silent for years.When I found out that Dynamite Entertainment had picked up the contract from the Abel brothers, I was excited to see what they had put together. The artwork is consistently good. However, the details are not as vivid as the first few chapters of A New Spring. Each character is easy to distinguish from the others - which is very helpful considering the 1,000s of characters that are part of this story. Overall the artwork is high level comic book.The writing is very well done. It stays very consistent to the original books. I haven't read the original in over 10 years, so this graphic novel version was a great refresher course. It reminded me on several occassions of things I had forgotten.Overall - I recommend this to all of Robert Jordan's fans. This is an excellent way to read this story in a new light.

This first volume of the graphic novel followed the book accurately and completely. It was easy to read and had beautiful illustrations. The heroes journey is action-packed and engrossing.

My boyfriend was so happy to get this series as a present. He loves these graphic novels!!

I bought this book for my 11 year girl to get her into reading the series. She loves graphic novels . She hasn't really read it yet, but I have looked at it and think it is well done. Only thing, the characters drawings are not what I pictured them to look like when I was reading the series. But, that's imagination for you. I'm sure no one person thought the imagined the characters the same way. It is a good book to get tweens and teens interested in the WOT series.

I bought this as a gift for my husband for Christmas. He is a big Wheel of Time fan and loved this! Now we are working on collecting the others. The art is beautiful! I would highly recommend for any Wheel of Time fan!

Great book. I love the entire saga. Adventure and intrigue with characters we can all love and hate. Very engaging. Awesome all around series.

I'll preface this by saying my issue is not with contents of the graphic novel. I'm a huge Wheel of Time fan and so I enjoyed the fairly faithful graphic novel adaptations, the artwork is good quality and believably represent the characters from the book. My issue is with the physical book itself. I got the paperback version of the book, and after less than 24 hours the binding of the book is already coming unglued. I guess that's what I get for not going for the hardcover, but still, was expecting a better quality product than this.