A 2025 Graphic Novel adaptation of Le Guin's novel, illustrated by Fred Fordham.
Provides examples of:
- Adaptational Badass:
- A minor example, but Ged manages to return from his underworld encounter with the Shadow on his own, without Hoeg's help.
- The original novel has Ged face six young dragons one after one, never more than three at the time, only one of them mature enough to breathe fire, and this is shown as a hard battle. Here, he fights five at once, four of them shown breathing fire.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: The Dragon's true name appears early, since the lines mentioning it are browsed by Ged soon after he arrives at Ninety Islands.
- Adaptational Modesty: In the book, Sparrowhawk is explicitly stated to be naked during the ceremony of Passage, but the graphic novel has him wading the river fully clothed.
- Adapted Out: While relatively little has been removed outright, there are some things:
- The Lord and Lady of O are absent, along with Ged's advanced lessons before his disaster.
- Serret is never confirmed outright as the girl who tempted young Ged.
- Ged's return to Gont is much briefer: he is coherent immediately after Ogion detransforms him (in the book, it took him days to recover), and the part where he purchases and fixes a boat is left out.
- The stay at Astowell is absent.
- Composite Character: The scene of Ged seeking a ship that would take him to Oskill is removed. Instead, the ship that tried to get him to Roke and was stopped by magical wind is the same one that gets him north.
- Foreshadowing: When it stated that the Nine are teaching Ged, one of them is shown from the back. That's because Ged actually only learns from eight masters, and doesn't realize the identity of the ninth until much later. But they don't show his face so as not to spoil it, since Ged had already met him.
- Named by the Adaptation: Inverted with Ged's otak familiar, whose real name, Hoeg, is never mentioned.
- Nothing Is Scarier: It was probably problematic for the artist to make the Dragon of Pendor as horrifying and impressive as described in the book, so he is shown through thick fog, a vague shape except for the eyes and burning nostrils.
- Sdrawkcab Speech: A minor example, but the spell Duny's aunt uses to break his careless summoning of goats is half of the summoning spell, but with the words in reverse. The original book does not describe what she said.
- Time-Passes Montage: Ged's studies after his injury are symbolized by panels having Seasonal Baggage between them: falling red leaves, snowfall, and a branch covered in green buds.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Jasper's fate after Ged's disaster is never mentioned.