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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guilt Puppy" data-source="post: 560599" data-attributes="member: 6521">Agamon/Oni: Elfquest, yes! I was sitting here thinking "gee, that's funny, I never read any fantasy when I was a kid!" But I must have read that whole series (first 8 graphic novels) 20 or so times... If anyone here hasn't checked them out, do so. The art is absolutely beautiful, and the characters are extremely well-realized. If you have a lot of preconceptions about "how a fantasy world should be" you might have some trouble with it ("trolls" are basically green dwarves, and a little meaner.)How did I pick that much up? Well, my parents were both Fantasy/Sci-Fi fans, my Dad played D&D, so I kind of naturally picked it up from them... Best way of putting it: In elementary school we were asked to interpret the phrase "beauty lies in the eye of the beholder," and I just assumed they were talking about the creature from the monster manual, and answered accordingly <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That said, I wouldn't say I'm "hooked on" the fantasy genre. I don't read fantasy books any differently than I read other books: Kurt Vonnegut trained me out of that <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Although, I must give credit to the LotR movies for renewing my interest in high fantasy as of late... Never read the books, might do so after seeing the movies.</blockquote>

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