Dark One, Vol. 1
Ratings15
Average rating3.6
15
Ratings15
Average rating3.6
From #1 New York Times Bestselling, Hugo Award-winning author, BrandonSanderson (The Mistborn Trilogy, The Stormlight Archive series), along withNathan Gooden, Jackson Lanzing, and Collin Kelly, comes Dark One, the firstbook in a series of original graphic novels, from Vault Comics. Someworlds are made to be broken. Paul Tanasin is a young man haunted byvisions of a dark and fantastic world?visions he initially believes arehallucinations. But when he discovers they are prophecies from Mirandus, a worldin which he's destined to become a fearsome destroyer, he'll have toembrace the fear, rise up as the Dark One, and shatter everything. Dark Oneexamines the dual roles we often take on in life--the ability to be asavior as well as a destroyer.
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1 primary book2 released booksDark One is a 2-book series with 1 primary work first released in 2020 with contributions by Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells.
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This clearly is a better graphic novel than White sand: the art is better, and the story has a better pace too. Although I love Sanderson's writing style - and I missed his prose here -, I still found this story enjoyable and full of surprises. It's not part of the Cosmere, but I can see the setting could become as big as the Cosmere.
An early Sanderson story gets a graphic novel take. The base concept - what if you were destined to be the dark one? - has been told a few times, and I am not sure this is the most subtle take on it. But what it lacks in subtlety it makes up in being pretty fun. Sanderson's easy writing styles translates relatively well into the graphic novel format. I think this one actually works better than the previous attempt (white sand). I do tend to prefer his full writing than the graphic novel takes on it though - his world building is so vivid that illustrating it almost detracts from it.
This is very much an origin story so it feels like there is a lot more to come on this. The graphic adaptation is solid if not phenomenal. I am intrigued to see where it goes and it was a solid start.
