Elfquest

[Klaus]

So, Wendy and Richard Pini's saga, Elfquest, finally got released here in Brazil. Of course I picked it up, it's fantasy.

I am halfway through the first storyarc, where the Wolfriders meet the People of the Sun. So far it looks a bit childish, but reads more mature than that.

Anyone here ever read Elfquest? What is your opinion?

 

[Rackhir]

I was a big fan of it back in my college days, but though the saga went down hill after they completed the quest in the fourth volume and I gradually lost interest. I do still highly recomend it up until the end of the fourth volume, but wouldn't pay to read it after that.

The novelization of the first volume "Journey to Sorrow's End" iirc. Is also a very good read. Some very poignient moments between Cutter and Leetha (sp?) in there.

 

[CrusaderX]

I was a big fan of it back in my college days, but though the saga went down hill after they completed the quest in the fourth volume and I gradually lost interest. I do still highly recomend it up until the end of the fourth volume, but wouldn't pay to read it after that.

I agree completley. The original quest was good fun, but the quality of the series takes a nosedive afterwards.

 

[haiiro]

I read it religiously issue by issue as a kid, but it's been awhile at this point. I thought the series flagged a bit in the middle, but I'd have to say I disagree with Rackhir and CrusaderX: I enjoyed the later parts quite a bit, and I think there's some really neat stuff towards the end.

No matter how you slice it, though, it's a great series. I've never read any of the stuff they've done since then, but this one's a classic.

 

[Wolf72]

It's a decent series, stick with it.

there's some interesting ideas in there. one of my favorites is Madcoil.

I stopped really reading them after they

Spoiler

found the palace of the high ones, (great battle with the Ice Mountain trolls though)

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Some of the Elfquest history is kinda cool too. See if you can't get some of the Blood of Ten Chiefs books, especially the first 3-4.

 

[Evilhalfling]

For those of you who didn't read to the end of Kings of the Broken Wheel
you missed an incredible ending. I will agree that it slacks a little between the end 4th book and the Broken Wheel - After that it split into multiple books by different artists and was pretty awful

I collected the graphic novel compalations 1-6 and then Kings as individual issues and a few into some of the splinter lines, which were all disapointing

 

[Klaus]

I just read the entirety of Elfquest being released here (it's the manga-format 2 parter of the Great Quest). It ends with Cutter and the other Wolfriders successfully diverting the stampede from hitting the Sun Folk village.

There's no plan at this moment to release new EQ material here, so no resolution to the Cutter/Leetah/Rayek conflict! Gah! I hate these publishers who translate and publish incomplete series! It feels like I read only half of it!

 

[Wolf72]

I just read the entirety of Elfquest being released here (it's the manga-format 2 parter of the Great Quest). It ends with Cutter and the other Wolfriders successfully diverting the stampede from hitting the Sun Folk village.

There's no plan at this moment to release new EQ material here, so no resolution to the Cutter/Leetah/Rayek conflict! Gah! I hate these publishers who translate and publish incomplete series! It feels like I read only half of it!

sorry dude!!! I won't spoil it for ya either ...