The Daily Quest: Of Ulduar, the arena, and lame comics
by Alex Ziebart 
Apr 16th 2009 at 5:30PM
We here at WoW Insider are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.
- Leafshine tracked the first hour of their patch 3.1 experience, and managed to get incredibly lucky with the Fishing daily quest.
- I Like Bubbles has a strategy up for the very first boss of Patch 3.1: The servers themselves.
- Now that raiding is back in style, raid leaders might actually start to care if people have good DPS or not. World of Snarkcraft is here to help you learn to read combat logs with WWS.
- Critical QQ thinks Season 6 will be a much more newbie friendly season, and has some tips for those newbies who want to get started!
- Lorecrafted brings us a short review of the latest issue of the World of Warcraft comic. To sum up: It's still lame.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Hoggersbud Apr 16th 2009 5:45PM
>Lorecrafted brings us a short review of the latest issue of the World of Warcraft comic. To sum up: It's still lame.
Funny, I thought this week's issue was quite entertaining. Oh sure, you could complain about the pacing, but the issue itself was fine.
Not perhaps as good as this week's Spiderman, but how can you top J. Jonah Jameson being elected Mayor of New York??
Mattimus Apr 16th 2009 8:08PM
It's probably much in the same vein as how people enjoy movies or television. Some people can turn their brains off and enjoy otherwise dumb boob-tubery, others cannot.
I, personally, agree with the reviewer... the whole point of a comic book is the art. If the art can't carry the story with as few words as possible, you aren't doing it right. I "read" comic books, first and foremost, for riveting artwork. The text is important, don't misunderstand, but it's a visual medium, and when the visuals fail to impress, then the writing had damn well better be good, which also in this case fails to impress.
I wouldn't call the WoW comic bad. It's just average, run-of-the-mill. An example of a very well done serialized comic was back when Cary Nord and Kurt Busiek were doing the Dark Horse Conan comics. The art was awesome, the movements read perfectly, and the writing supported the art, not the other way around (which is funny, given the source material). The WoW comic is not engaging in any way, shape, or form for me, and lots of people have far worse things to say about it than I do.
You'll find lots of people who lampoon average as terrible, and they're often the most vocal, and give a skewed impression of something.
Hoggersbud Apr 16th 2009 9:32PM
Can't say I really liked that phase of Conan myself. I much preferred Conan back when Marvel had him. But yeah I agree with your point about the average.
Ayane Apr 16th 2009 8:24PM
Is it just me? Or does the game 'look' much better after the patch?
The character sprites and textures look cleaner and the frame rate seems to have improved quite a bit.
^_^