I have done this in the past and I am going to announce once again, I have been known to be wrong about things.

That is a pretty big deal for me to admit too.

I can think of three specific instances where this has happened. My dad travels a lot for work. In the summer/fall of I think 2001 he came home from a trip with a new book in tow. It was some crap about a boy wizard or some other crap. I distictly remember a drive in the van with him where he was explaining to me and mom, as we looked with bored eyes, how there were only supposed to be three names to come out of the "Goblet of Fire" whatever the hell that was. He went on to explain in excited tones how a fourth name came out of the cup, and wait for it...it was Harry Potter's. At the time I remember thinking how absolutely stupid the book sounded.

He kept this up until November, when we as a family went to see "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", and I fell in love with a bespeckeld 11-year old boy. I had read the first four books by Christmas that year. I was wrong.

The second instance of being wrong involves Chili. I was totally wrong about Chili being disgusting. My thinking was: "who the hell mixes meat and vegtibles?" I was wrong. Chili is delicious.

The third instance involves my brother, and is pretty similar to the big "Harry Potter" incident.

Drew is a fantasy "geek" and loves graphic novels and fantasy fiction. He had read a few fantasy series after he completed "The Lord of The Rings", which I thought was about a circus in middle school. He found that many of the more contemporary fantasy series out there failed to live up to the bar that Tolkien had set. Then he found one, "The Wheel of Time", which just sounds stupid.


At the time there were 10 books in the series I believe, and they were quietly the most popular book series in the world that no one had ever heard of. Drew flew through them and loved them. He informed me I had to read them. After much complaining and teasing of him for being a dork, I finally picked up "The Eye of the World" the first book in the series.

I found the first section of the book to be a little boring, a little confusing, and very much similar to the beginning of Lord of the Rings.

Then I began to fall in love with the characters (and there are an effing ton of them!) and the story telling. The action scences literally wash over you in a way that completely imerses you in the story. The imagery is incredible. And the books are really long.

It takes serious commitment to get through just one of them, let alone 11. The author died last year of a very rare blood disease prior to completing the series. Robert Jordan (the author) had Brandon Sanderson (the author of my other favorite fantasy series, "Mistborn") finish the 12th book which is scheduled to be released later this year. I have yet to finish the books that have already been published, mostly because I am lazy. Which brings me to the purpose of this long, boring post.


TOR books along with the Dable Brothers are releasing the series in Graphic form:

http://www.dabelbrothers.com/index.php?categoryid=16

I seriously could not be more excited about this. I have pictures in my head (and my brother's walls) of how I see this series, but to be able to read it in this form is going to be amazing. Well done.