I am very sad that Arctic's blood was accidentally made red 😔 Also, something funny is that my copy of the graphic novel says "Winter Turniing" on the side spine 😭 Question of the day: Slushees or shaved ice cones? My answer: If it's an Icee, then I'll pick that. But if it's another Slushee brand, then I'm going snow cone!
I love all the details that Mike drew! Like when they were spying on Scarlet, Qiblis face expressions are golden. Winter and Qibli are the dynamic duo.
I loved reading the graphic novel. The art was awesome, and this was my favorite to read. The icewing drawings were much better in this graphic novel than the others.
One of my favorite art pieces in the book was after icicle was captured by the rainwings and moon and winter talk about how he wouldn’t kill glory. That one art piece with moon with the frog on her talons is so good I can’t even begin to say how much it describes the scene as a whole. Like the moment I saw that I was just like “wow why is the artwork sooooo gorgeous”
I'm surprised to get this as soon as it came out! I rarely get to channels videos as soon as they come out, especially when its from one of my favorites!
I'd say Winter Turning is my fourth favorite book in the series, and seeing it come to life just took me back. For one thing WT, back-to-back with MR, is what really cemented my love for the series. I've always been one of those guys who loves analyzing the big picture, reading between the lines, figuring out the subtext, and seing how all the plot threads come together. I feel like Books 6&7 are at that equilibrium where Tui's strengths as a writer really start coming into their own and before some of her shortcomings start to become more noticeable.
For the icewing wall of names, I imagined a big block of ice with names that got magically engraved in it whenever an Icewing was born and you could stab your claw into the engravings and the names would move as easy as moving your mouse on a computer.
All my thoughts (Contains Spoilers): - Got this GN 3 days after release. I absolutely think that this is the best graphic novel so far. I think the ominous intensity of scarlet’s (the scene where she dreamvisits Winter) and Darkstalker’s (the scene where he kills his dad in Winter’s story) art are the best. I literally read the book three times in a row before I continue my WOF-reading journey, or re-reading journey. - I actually read the graphic novels first before the novels. And I didnt read the dragonet prophecy novel until I finished reading book 15... And honestly, after that I feel like Peril is kinda overrated, but still my fav WOF character. Also yes, I would like to see Hvitur’s death, absolutely. I kinda wish there’s a Darkstalker graphic novel after Escaping Peril, since its released next. - This GN kinda makes winter feels like less of a jerk - The art is genuinely insane. The shading, the less harsh art style (compare to GN style), and how cute the characters are. AHHHH I LOVE IT - I kinda struggle to figure out the art difference between Moon rising and Winter turning. - I realize how the rainwings undergo an art style transition (Rounder face shape, Shorter snout), I think around the second arc, I forgot when it started, 6 or 7. I prefer the previous version. - Glacier looks worse than she was on book 4 (controversial, but I like how old she looks). Ruby looks awesome here. Pyrite’s cute af, which makes me sad since, if you know you know, because Ive read the novel before the GN. Icicle looks like an absolute psycopath, I love her! Im speechless about the scenery. For the IceWing wall, I imagine just a tall, blue ice board where names are carved out on it. I also love Foeslayer’s design. - I set the last page (Peril) as my phone wallpaper. - I hope Escaping Peril’s good too, since she is my favorite WOF character.
The graphic novel is amazing, the only problem I have with it is the same same problem I have with all the graphic novels, unclear speech bubbles. It's not that much of an issue when reading alone because you can realize who's talking based on context pretty quickly, however something I like doing with the graphic novels is dubbing them with my friends. It's very often that we have to pause our reading to figure out who's saying what. Sometimes it's straight up guessing. The graphic novels would benefit greatly from color coded speech bubbles. Even so there's occasionally issues with figuring out which speech bubble should be read first. A minor nitpick, but something I hope to see fixed eventually
@@sages_hangout there was also a mistake in moon rising where they got the silhouette of the mudwing and sandwing mixed up when kinkajou is talking about how exited she is meet her classmates
(you might recognize me from the previous video but its totally fine if you dont) I havent read the graphic novels yet (will do when i have read books 11-15). But i love the drawings! I pictured the icewing rankings wall to be one of those slidey things you played with as a kid that were at most playgrounds. hope you know what i mean :) And also the fact that you care about spoilers and the people who havent read up untill that point makes me very happy! Keep up the amazing work you are doing! (Also to answer question of the day, I like both but i get Slushees more often because shaved ice isnt so known where im from)
It really is! It seems like is the only graphic with the romance and it was good. And the drawings were beautiful! So yeah! It is prob the best! I guess I will see you in the next video!
I said this in another video, but in one page (I think that scene where moon was drawing the mountains in icicle’s dream) it’s shown that moon is drawing with her left hand. Moon is left handed!
I think the only thing I would change about winters graphic novel is the way pyrite transformed into hailstorm. PERSONALLY, i pictured it to be more melty and gore filled, but I still love the way he kind of just shed pyrite off like a snake.
Winter turning was insanely beautiful. Definitely his best work on the books so far!! Everything was so gorgeous, the expressions, the scenery. Breathtaking
When you first read the Graphic Novel, you might notice that Pyrite in the prologue looks different from Pyrite in the main story You could chalk it up to Mike being inconsistent, BUT look closely & you'll see it's actually because Main story Pyrite has Hailstorms jawline! That is such an awesome detail!!😍
Yeah I noticed that too, pyrite in the beginning looks somewhat different, as well as when winter tried on the necklace. The character design is consistent for hailstorm though.
I bought the graphic novel for several reasons. One, even though I already read the original book twice, I still bought it for the art. I also bought it for the fact that money talks louder than blogs. You gotta pay to play, or it goes away, folks. Thankfully, the Winter Turning book has good sales numbers, so Escaping Peril will hopefully be out by next Christmas. (I look forward to seeing how my guy Darkstalker is drawn.)
Similar reasons here too, I’ve read the book twice already, and I prefer the book, but I love the graphic novel for the art, and getting to see what happens in the book play out essentially.
My only complaint about the graphic novel is that Glory’s snout was pushed in as if she were a dragonet. Her snout even didn’t look like that in the book 3 graphic novel so I was confused why Mike Holmes pushed her snout in.
Winter Turning was the first text novel I read (after finishing the graphic novels, as I came upon the series only partway through last year!!), and it's always had a special place to me for some reason, likely because of that, but also it just felt like such a wide reaching adventure with numerous locations and story beats and twists, could almost call it my favourite of the WoF books. So when the graphic novel came out it was a fun time revisiting that story I so enjoyed but this time illustrated. So yes, I agree, I couldn't fault it (except for not being longer! haha, oh well we know it can't capture everything unless we want to wait two years instesd of just one). Good book!
I love how much they improved the Icewing designs in this book. I’ve never liked how Icewing ga looked both in the main books and previous graphic novels, but I thinks characters like Winter had an extreme blowup, to the point where I can actually tell their emotions.
Reading the graphic novel and the ice trail scene, it made me think of a What if, where if all the dragons (that where well, still together that nothing was broken off) what would happen if they where set free like Foeslayer?
thats true, guess we don't really know if they are still alive or not, but if they where.. would make a interesting story if they where set free. @@Dogloverlikesdoge
The Winter Turning graphic novel is near perfection, but I have two things against it: Lynx needs a redesign. Something about her colour seems off; two, they didn't include the practice fight scene between Winter and Lynx. Otherwise, if we ignore this, the graphic novel, as you said, was perfect.
I can, and probably every wok graphic novel reader can agree that Arc 2 graphic novels are getting better and better each one. Im so excited for Escaping Paril I can hardly wait
It's Ruby or one of Scarlet's other daughters. If you read the prologue in the Winter Turning book (pg5), it says she has "small rubies glittering from between the scales around her eyes, wears silver rings with larger rubies on them around her claws."
I remember when I saw Icicle, I got jumpscared! I was not expecting her to be all… augh, it was drawn so well! I visibly was uncomfortable with my thoughts saying “she is NOT ok 😰”
Winter's still a self-loathing xenophobe, though; an unlikable protagonist all around. Chameleon's ambush of the Jade Winglet and assault on Kinkajou felt shoehorned in, and the Diamond Trial felt rushed. I was disappointed when neither Winter nor Foeslayer mentioned Prince Arctic by name, as they do in the original novel.
I am very sad that Arctic's blood was accidentally made red 😔
Also, something funny is that my copy of the graphic novel says "Winter Turniing" on the side spine 😭
Question of the day: Slushees or shaved ice cones?
My answer: If it's an Icee, then I'll pick that. But if it's another Slushee brand, then I'm going snow cone!
I LOVE snow cones! Mainly cherry or watermelon flavor, but I'll take any.
Snow cones!
Also my copy says that too lol
It actually says that for all of them for now, I got it on day 1 of release and it says it for me. Soon enough they’ll be rare.
Snow cones, then Italian ice, then icees
It does for the paperback, yeah@@-.CosmicCode.-
I snorted at how psychotic Winter made Peril look.
“I can’t even dignify that with a snort.”
The intense EVIL that Peril was portrayed with was just- 🤌✨ so ridiculous, I LOVED that hilarious artistic choice!! 😂
I love all the details that Mike drew! Like when they were spying on Scarlet, Qiblis face expressions are golden. Winter and Qibli are the dynamic duo.
Fr!! :D
FR! That was the PERFECT Qibli moment & I think it's the best thing the graphic novels have added since Kestrels face scar
I loved reading the graphic novel. The art was awesome, and this was my favorite to read. The icewing drawings were much better in this graphic novel than the others.
I completely agree!
One of my favorite art pieces in the book was after icicle was captured by the rainwings and moon and winter talk about how he wouldn’t kill glory. That one art piece with moon with the frog on her talons is so good I can’t even begin to say how much it describes the scene as a whole. Like the moment I saw that I was just like “wow why is the artwork sooooo gorgeous”
My favorite book, “Winter Turniing” ah yes. Amazing title.
Mine just said Winter Turning.
XDD
If it didn't have the error for the spine, you probably had a hardcover copy or a later print@@JustaSamoyed
I'm surprised to get this as soon as it came out! I rarely get to channels videos as soon as they come out, especially when its from one of my favorites!
:DD
Winter felt so much more in love with qibli in the book
So it’s absolutely amazing
I expect them to lean even more into the Qinter bait for the book 10 graphic novel.
That one page where Qibli has his talon on winter’s shoulder or the other where he grabs winter’s shoulders and share an ✨emotional moment✨
I loved the perfect balance of winterwatcher and winter moments in it, even a little moonbli
I'd say Winter Turning is my fourth favorite book in the series, and seeing it come to life just took me back. For one thing WT, back-to-back with MR, is what really cemented my love for the series. I've always been one of those guys who loves analyzing the big picture, reading between the lines, figuring out the subtext, and seing how all the plot threads come together. I feel like Books 6&7 are at that equilibrium where Tui's strengths as a writer really start coming into their own and before some of her shortcomings start to become more noticeable.
For the icewing wall of names, I imagined a big block of ice with names that got magically engraved in it whenever an Icewing was born and you could stab your claw into the engravings and the names would move as easy as moving your mouse on a computer.
I wasn’t the biggest fan of the Winger Turning book, but the graphic novel helped me change my mind
The art just keeps getting better!! The graphic novels is what made me start doing wof art!!! They will always have a special place in my heart.
Pyrite’s character design is perfection.
It definitely grew on me!
@@Dogloverlikesdoge it also grew on Hailstorm
@@justaperson886Literally
All my thoughts (Contains Spoilers):
- Got this GN 3 days after release. I absolutely think that this is the best graphic novel so far. I think the ominous intensity of scarlet’s (the scene where she dreamvisits Winter) and Darkstalker’s (the scene where he kills his dad in Winter’s story) art are the best. I literally read the book three times in a row before I continue my WOF-reading journey, or re-reading journey.
- I actually read the graphic novels first before the novels. And I didnt read the dragonet prophecy novel until I finished reading book 15... And honestly, after that I feel like Peril is kinda overrated, but still my fav WOF character. Also yes, I would like to see Hvitur’s death, absolutely. I kinda wish there’s a Darkstalker graphic novel after Escaping Peril, since its released next.
- This GN kinda makes winter feels like less of a jerk
- The art is genuinely insane. The shading, the less harsh art style (compare to GN style), and how cute the characters are. AHHHH I LOVE IT
- I kinda struggle to figure out the art difference between Moon rising and Winter turning.
- I realize how the rainwings undergo an art style transition (Rounder face shape, Shorter snout), I think around the second arc, I forgot when it started, 6 or 7. I prefer the previous version.
- Glacier looks worse than she was on book 4 (controversial, but I like how old she looks). Ruby looks awesome here. Pyrite’s cute af, which makes me sad since, if you know you know, because Ive read the novel before the GN. Icicle looks like an absolute psycopath, I love her! Im speechless about the scenery. For the IceWing wall, I imagine just a tall, blue ice board where names are carved out on it. I also love Foeslayer’s design.
- I set the last page (Peril) as my phone wallpaper.
- I hope Escaping Peril’s good too, since she is my favorite WOF character.
I’m so excited to read it! I’ve been waiting for sooooo long lol
Does anyone else have a missing text bubble on the second box when Scarlet dream visits Winter? (Page 124)
The graphic novel is amazing, the only problem I have with it is the same same problem I have with all the graphic novels, unclear speech bubbles. It's not that much of an issue when reading alone because you can realize who's talking based on context pretty quickly, however something I like doing with the graphic novels is dubbing them with my friends. It's very often that we have to pause our reading to figure out who's saying what. Sometimes it's straight up guessing. The graphic novels would benefit greatly from color coded speech bubbles. Even so there's occasionally issues with figuring out which speech bubble should be read first. A minor nitpick, but something I hope to see fixed eventually
Ordered I as soon as I saw it, I loved it SO MUCH, and I am very excited for Escaping Peril
I got my copy at my schools book fair, best 13 dollars I’ve spent I agree with you the art is amazing!
SECOND I GOT THIS GRAPHIC NOVEL AND IT WAS SO GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL
Also i just checked and my copy also says Winter Turniing
Yeah lol it was a mistake that they didn’t notice 😂
@@scorchinghotcheese It's probably gonna be fixed soon and then it'll be rare
@@sages_hangout there was also a mistake in moon rising where they got the silhouette of the mudwing and sandwing mixed up when kinkajou is talking about how exited she is meet her classmates
@@scorchinghotcheeseDon’t forget how long Moon is
(you might recognize me from the previous video but its totally fine if you dont) I havent read the graphic novels yet (will do when i have read books 11-15). But i love the drawings! I pictured the icewing rankings wall to be one of those slidey things you played with as a kid that were at most playgrounds. hope you know what i mean :) And also the fact that you care about spoilers and the people who havent read up untill that point makes me very happy! Keep up the amazing work you are doing! (Also to answer question of the day, I like both but i get Slushees more often because shaved ice isnt so known where im from)
It really is! It seems like is the only graphic with the romance and it was good. And the drawings were beautiful! So yeah! It is prob the best! I guess I will see you in the next video!
This is my first wof book and I love it!!!!!
If this is how good the art is for this book im gonna be waiting to see how mike will do with cottonmouth's throne room and the other mind in general
The only problem I have with the graphic novels is the way the IceWing's were drawn
I said this in another video, but in one page (I think that scene where moon was drawing the mountains in icicle’s dream) it’s shown that moon is drawing with her left hand. Moon is left handed!
My school library just got it and I'm sooo happy!! The librarian let me read it as soon as she got the library sticker on it and I'm sooo happy!!!
I think the only thing I would change about winters graphic novel is the way pyrite transformed into hailstorm. PERSONALLY, i pictured it to be more melty and gore filled, but I still love the way he kind of just shed pyrite off like a snake.
Winter turning was insanely beautiful. Definitely his best work on the books so far!! Everything was so gorgeous, the expressions, the scenery. Breathtaking
I totally agree!
Yeah I never realized that there were two I’d on the spine until you pointed that out
When you first read the Graphic Novel, you might notice that Pyrite in the prologue looks different from Pyrite in the main story
You could chalk it up to Mike being inconsistent, BUT look closely & you'll see it's actually because Main story Pyrite has Hailstorms jawline!
That is such an awesome detail!!😍
Yeah I noticed that too, pyrite in the beginning looks somewhat different, as well as when winter tried on the necklace. The character design is consistent for hailstorm though.
Whoa, I never noticed that!!
After looking closer she doesn’t just have the same jawline, but the same overall facial structure. It’s almost uncanny at times.
I bought the graphic novel for several reasons. One, even though I already read the original book twice, I still bought it for the art. I also bought it for the fact that money talks louder than blogs. You gotta pay to play, or it goes away, folks. Thankfully, the Winter Turning book has good sales numbers, so Escaping Peril will hopefully be out by next Christmas. (I look forward to seeing how my guy Darkstalker is drawn.)
Similar reasons here too, I’ve read the book twice already, and I prefer the book, but I love the graphic novel for the art, and getting to see what happens in the book play out essentially.
My only complaint about the graphic novel is that Glory’s snout was pushed in as if she were a dragonet. Her snout even didn’t look like that in the book 3 graphic novel so I was confused why Mike Holmes pushed her snout in.
I thought it was great, too! The art was beautiful, and I can't wait to see the next ones!
Winter Turning was the first text novel I read (after finishing the graphic novels, as I came upon the series only partway through last year!!), and it's always had a special place to me for some reason, likely because of that, but also it just felt like such a wide reaching adventure with numerous locations and story beats and twists, could almost call it my favourite of the WoF books. So when the graphic novel came out it was a fun time revisiting that story I so enjoyed but this time illustrated. So yes, I agree, I couldn't fault it (except for not being longer! haha, oh well we know it can't capture everything unless we want to wait two years instesd of just one). Good book!
I adore your little "mmmmbai" lol
OMG THE ART QUALITY!? Winter looks perfect everytime, but in THIS BOOK?! OMG HOW I LOVE IT AND I CAN'T WAIT TO READ ONE!!!
YOU'RE SO RIGHT
me when darkstalker gets a graphic novel version of the book:
I love how much they improved the Icewing designs in this book. I’ve never liked how Icewing ga looked both in the main books and previous graphic novels, but I thinks characters like Winter had an extreme blowup, to the point where I can actually tell their emotions.
Reading the graphic novel and the ice trail scene, it made me think of a What if, where if all the dragons (that where well, still together that nothing was broken off) what would happen if they where set free like Foeslayer?
Wait... you might be on to something 👀Although it could be the shackles that keep her alive and stuck there, not just the spear
thats true, guess we don't really know if they are still alive or not, but if they where.. would make a interesting story if they where set free. @@Dogloverlikesdoge
And not just Escaping Peril imagine Blue or Sundew from Arc 3!
Here I am. Nice vid! I really like the visuals.
The Winter Turning graphic novel is near perfection, but I have two things against it: Lynx needs a redesign. Something about her colour seems off; two, they didn't include the practice fight scene between Winter and Lynx. Otherwise, if we ignore this, the graphic novel, as you said, was perfect.
I agree with your opinion on Lynx. She looks really grayish blue in the book and I always imagined her with light purple undertones
I just got this book yesterday!!!
Awesome!
Same!!
I can, and probably every wok graphic novel reader can agree that Arc 2 graphic novels are getting better and better each one. Im so excited for Escaping Paril I can hardly wait
I think it'll be pretty cool if / when the WillowHeart dubs get to Arc 2, and they get to put voices to the great page art.
It was amazing!
I still don’t understand how the ice wings don’t have the icicles at their tales like book one wth fjord
The red Skywing at 3:57 is actually Vermillion, (one of Ruby's brothers) not Ruby
It's Ruby or one of Scarlet's other daughters. If you read the prologue in the Winter Turning book (pg5), it says she has "small rubies glittering from between the scales around her eyes, wears silver rings with larger rubies on them around her claws."
I forgot ruby was in the book
I wonder how moon and kinkajou felt about bandit in that story.
Why was arctics blood red tho, and the fact that on the side of the book turning was spelt wrong. But otherwise it was really good!
I hope they change that for future printings but I doubt it 😭
I love Icicle's creepy, decrepit design, she looks absolutely terrifying! I actually shuddered when I first saw her in her advanced state of decay!
Same!
I just have to wait June to have it in french.😢
But i have Dragon slayer to finish first.
Noooo :((
when the box office makes an actual good cosmic entity horror movie for once
???
I remember when I saw Icicle, I got jumpscared! I was not expecting her to be all… augh, it was drawn so well! I visibly was uncomfortable with my thoughts saying “she is NOT ok 😰”
Fr 😭
When I saw her, I was scared 😭
perfect review!
Tysm!!
Winter Turning? More like Winter Turniing
I think the hidden kingdom or moon rising is better
Interested video but I have not got this
i love it so far seen lots of mistaks
I didn't get to read it yet😢
Winter's still a self-loathing xenophobe, though; an unlikable protagonist all around. Chameleon's ambush of the Jade Winglet and assault on Kinkajou felt shoehorned in, and the Diamond Trial felt rushed. I was disappointed when neither Winter nor Foeslayer mentioned Prince Arctic by name, as they do in the original novel.
Yay!