When comics publishing imprint asked veteran comic book scribe and artist wow gold to write the new “World of Warcraft” comic, he thought it “sounded fun.” But it also turned out to be a lot of work. To prepare for writing the comic (in addition to going directly to game developer itemrate Simonson pored over the novels and the manga comics, and he and his wife Louise conducted extensive research on the web.

Though he hadn’t logged on to the “World of Warcraft” until he started writing the book, several of his friends and his grandson are big enthusiasts of the game; he’s even asked his grandson for some help. “I’ve actually used him as a resource,” Simonson told me in a phone interview last week. “There are occasional visual moments, often surrounding the use of magic or magical stuff, where I needed to know how the visuals in the game worked when certain things happened. And I have a friend who lives nearby who is a ‘Warcraft’ player. He has played the game almost from the conception, and he seems pretty cool with what we’re doing so far.”