Recent Reads: ElfQuest: The Final Quest: Issue 1

I don’t promise I won’t do one of these for every issue, so you should probably be glad that it’s not a monthly title. OTOH, it’s the first time in a loooong time that I’m really impatient for the *next comic*, so hurrah and huzzah! So this is a 60 page prologue and it’s…wow. A lot happens in it. A *lot* happens, and I’m torn about…it’s well done. I mean, given how much they were trying to do, it’s well done. And to give them props, in 60 pages they…

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Elfquest: Skywise & Cutter

a useful item :)

*bemused* You know what really useful item I have here? A signed, limited edition, *still shrink-wrapped* leatherbound edition of the Starblaze Donning ‪#‎Elfquest‬ GN #3. 30 years old! I also have a not-shrinkwrapped copy of it and of #4, and 2 copies each of the softbound editions, and as usually happens when I notice these things, it’s hard to convince myself I shouldn’t go hunt down 1, 2, and the omnibus edition I saw once when I was about 12 and did not have the $150 for (of course) and…

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Elfquest: Skywise & Cutter

Elfquest: The Final Quest

The Pinis have announced that their publication schedule has advanced more rapidly than they expected, so as of page 26, they’re ceasing the online teasers for the prologue to THE FINAL QUEST, and will be completing the story in print sometime later this year. On the one hand, yay for them! On the other, argh. Either way, here are the final two pages they’ve posted: Page 25 Page 26 * The whole shebang: Page One Page Two Page Three Page Four Page Five Page Six Page 7 Page 8 Page…

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Elfquest: Skywise & Cutter

Elfquest: The Final Quest

Page, um. 24. I’m a little behind. * Page One Page Two Page Three Page Four Page Five Page Six Page 7 (this is where I left off) Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 (The best bit about this page is Wendy posted the profiles frame on FB and someone commented how Cutter’s nose had lost its snub, and (more tragically) Skywise’s had lost its arch. And when she posted the final version, their noses had been restored to their…

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