It was almost as if Madonna’s “Vogue” was playing in the background. Other poses seemed as if action figures had been lined up and the artist drew them just the way they appeared.

Every so often (it was pretty rare), a character would be in a pose which shouldn’t be anatomically possible. This was especially true in the battle scenes. Campbell did a good job making the images work well with his color choices.Īt times, I found some of the images too detailed and busy in White Sand Volume 1, making it harder to tell what was happening or what expression was on a character’s face. The planet is half in perpetual darkness and half in perpetual sunlight, and Gopez did a great job showing the differences in clothing and building for the two sides. Julius Gopez produced a very detailed depiction of the world of Taldain.

The art was very well done in White Sand Volume 1. He has to deal with fellow sand mages who don’t believe in him, the taisha wants to disband his diem (basically a guild), and he has to learn to trust a Darksider (a person from the dark side of the planet). He can’t control sand magic to the same degree as his father, and has to try to find his place after everything he has known since childhood is destroyed. The story is pretty straight forward: a young man who believes himself to be good for nothing. He can barely handle the most basic sand manipulation, and he barely survives the attack which left dead-including his father-most of the sand masters. The main character, Kenton, is considered a disgrace by his sand master father. “White Sand” volume 1 by Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin, and Julius Gopez.I had heard Brandon Sanderson talking about White Sand Volume 1 for years, so it was great to finally be able to read it.

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