Product Description

Pug and Tomas are two kitchen boys who dream of being heroes one day in the medieval fantasy world of Midkemia. But as the boys start on the path to manhood and begin their apprenticeships to their respective masters, they one day stumble upon a strange shipwreck and learn that invaders from a strange and distant world have found a way to invade Midkemia through portals known as "rifts" and are preparing for a full scale assault. As Tomas learns to be a soldier and Pug studies the path of a magician, both boys find themselves growing into the heroes they had hoped to become - but growing apart as the effects of the Riftwar change both of their lives forever.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #510567 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 168 pages

Customer Reviews

Again the same complaint
Feists novels all are very amazing reads and I couldn't wait to see the adaptation into a graphic novel. I was very impressed with the beginning chapters. The pictures were very well drawn with vivid color and detail. As I have read all of Feists books, the artists depiction of the characters seemed dead-on and actually showed growth as the pages turned. Chapters 4-6 on the other hand made the main characters seem almost as children with much less detail and color. Even the characters expressions seemed less confident, and age progression was way off following the story line. Reading the second half was very disappointing as far as the drawings went. Overall very worth purchasing if only for the first half. Hopefully as these graphic novels continue, the better artist will take over!

Graphic SF Reader
A Marvel adaptation of what appears to be part of the first book, which was split in half in the USA it seems, and only half of that, to start with. So, going to be an expensive way to get the whole story.

Other than that, it is pretty well done, and especially the firedrake, Fantus, very cool.

One major art problem is that there is a shift from the first half to the second. Whereas Pug and Tomas at the start are shown aging slightly as they move into later teenagerhood, the second half style changes them to look more like they are 10 or so again at times, and shorter, too, compared to the long, skinny slim hipped pillow look given to everyone by the first artist.

Great Story, Jarring Art change 1/2 way through...
The story is great, if you've read the original book Magician:Apprentice, you will like these books a lot! (seriously, a lot, you should buy it!). However, the bad news: One huge annoyance/surprise. chapter 1-3 has a different artist than chapter 4-6. What's worse, you can really really tell - the ch4-6 artist didn't copy the ch1-3 artist's style. They completely dumped the very stylized look of Carline for example! They used much thicker pens! (so sad). This makes for a very jarring experience when you turn the page and discover you do not recognize the characters anymore. The ch 4-6 art is less detailed: has thicker lines, and because of this everything looks more bubbly, and with less detail colored in, looks like hazy watercolor with thick pens drawn over top. The sophisticated styling of the characters are completely lost in ch4-6. All that said. The story is great, and if you get used to (or overlook) the ch4-6 art style, you'll really love this book. the art style in ch1-3 is great, very sophisticated, very detailed, very stylized, for example, borric and carline look amazing (of course they're all totally watered down in ch4-6, no more style, looks like a kids quickly drawn anime, not as bad as dragonball z, but..). it's a tragedy they didn't keep the same artist all the way through. let's hope they get him back for the remaining books, or that magically the 1st artist redoes/finishes the art in this book. I removed 1 star for the art change and inability to match the art style. But the book is really cool, and I love seeing the world of magician and the riftwar at last.