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This one is actually slightly better than the previous 2 volumes, being solid entertainment, but nothing amazing. The artwork takes a nosedive on issue #20 with the guest penciller, but recovers after that.
These were great stories with their own characters now I just hope we get I last volume to finish up the series last issues.
For fantasy, it is an okay story. As I stated in reviews for the prior two volumes, it lacks the Dragonlance feel.
Probably the weakest of the bunch overall due to the "filler" issues in the middle (though the first wasn't without its charms) and the sudden and baffling switch to a totally new setting on a continent completely different from the well known Ansalon for the second arc.Taladas?That being said, I really enjoyed Riva's telling of the history of Wistan and his progression through the Solamnic Knights as an old woman in the process of saving (and being saved by!) an idealistic pair of orphans in a
Winter's Knight (17-20). I always found this a very daring choice on Mishkin's part, to tell a story of an aging Riva, 40 years later, still fighting the good fight. It's a nice story of sacrifice with a story within the story that is a nice counterpoint and equally interesting. Nowadays, it's maybe a little trickier fitting this into continuity then when it was written. 40 years later would put Riva amidst the first coming of the alien dragon overlords, and so it's possible to imagine how a dra...