Dragonlance Classics Volume 3 by Dan Mishkin

Dragonlance Classics Volume 3 Reviews

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  Robert

  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 land still beset by dastardly draconians.
  
  
  
  Lastly, I don't see a volume 4 of these anywhere but Wikipedia tells me the series kept going until issue 34, hopefully I can get my hands on those final stories some day...
  
  
  
  (or maybe not?)
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  Shannon Appelcline

  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 draconian uprising could have happened in that time. (She just doesn't mention anything about alien dragons, because that was still years in the future for the TSR authors!) The usage of Palin, introduced in a short story a few years earlier, helps with the chronology [7+/10].
  
  Youth (21). These stories of Myrella and Riva's youth aren't very notable. Myrella's story isn't memorable at all, then Riva's story is removed from her memory so as not to cause continuity problems. [5/10].
  
  The Dragonring Saga (22-25). Riva goes to Taladas, the major new Dragonlance setting introduced in
  Time of the Dragon: Dragonlance Box by Zeb Cook the previous year. When I first read this in 1990, I found it extremely disorienting, because I had no idea what Taladas was. That speaks to how well-developed the setting is, and how well it was described in this comic. Beyond that, the story is fairly typical Dragonlance, all about human failings and human courage (mixed with interacting with the gods) [6/10].
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  Baal Of

  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.
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  John Smith

  These were great stories with their own characters now I just hope we get I last volume to finish up the series last issues.
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  Daniel

  For fantasy, it is an okay story. As I stated in reviews for the prior two volumes, it lacks the Dragonlance feel.