I’ll start by throwing this out there: I was a compulsive World of Warcraft player for a solid six months of my life in college. Eventually, despite having a blast playing with my friends, I quit the game, permanently deleted my character, and haven’t looked back since. Written by Richard A. Knapp; Illustrated by Jae-Hwan Kim Publisher: Tokyopop Age Rating: 13+ Genre: Fantasy Price: $12.99 I have a fairly good grasp of the WoW mythology up until the first expansion pack, which allowed players to travel through a portal to reach the realm of Outland. That’s where Shadow Wing picks up and instantly crushes the reader with page after page of narration explaining why the portal is significant and why the inhabitants of Azeroth are crossing over. This could have been a great hook, if not for two setbacks. First and foremost is the hideous, eye-straining font that the narration is printed in. It made me cringe every time it popped up in the story and it appears in nearly every panel for the entire first chapter. The second issue is that it spends a ton of time building the back-stories of the characters, which are both clearly established on…