As I learned in my interview with James Waugh, parts of this graphic novel were actually in an earlier script of the Warcraft movie.
James Waugh: I think one of the wonderful things about this book is it really shows how these characters became the characters that we see in the movie.
James Waugh: No, we always thought that this was a self-contained story, and that a graphic novel was really the right direction to go.
During my chat with James Waugh, we discuss how this one particular part of the earlier Warcraft script helped spawn this graphic novel, how the story was crafted from that point, and much more.