Skywise lives...and so does the Brig

[primsong]

Stayed up waaay too late last night reading ElfQuest after discovering all of it could be found online - I quit buying the graphic novels years and years ago when the plotline started to just get weirder and wonkier by the moment... a little after the giant egg thing and the fall of Blue Mountain and the Dewshine's floating baby, etc. Kind of fun to rediscover it, though - and I find the plots are STILL very bizarre, but I still like the main characters and the artwork enough to go wading in to read them anyway, lol...

Speaking of old favorites revisited:

All my fellow Old-Schoolers - don't forget to do your duty and drop in some nominations for your favorite Brigadier-fic at Children of Time. The Brig would expect no less.

http://childrenoftime.creative-musings.com/awards/index.htm

Comments

[piplover.livejournal.com]

I think the first 4 volumes were pretty good, but after that they went way downhill. Like you said, storyline got pretty wonky and it just wasn't my cup of tea anymore. I still have 7 volumes, though. I should probably look into them and see how much they're worth.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I completely agree - I love the original story arc in the first four, then it starts to unravel a bit. I think I bought vol.s 5 & 6, then gave up. The artwork still amazes me, especially how Wendy can make them communicate so much without any dialogue at times.

[meneleth.livejournal.com]

Ah, I do adore the original Elfquest stories, up through Kings of the Broken Wheel. Cutter rocks!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

You have a Cutter icon! Woot!

Kings of the Broken Wheel was interesting, and so sad in many ways, but I did enjoy the introduction of Tyleet, one of the best later characters. Of course, I was already a fan of Redlance and Nightfall, so their daughter does them justice.

[meneleth.livejournal.com]

We were deep into playing D&D when the comics first came out, and this was the cover for one of them, so I coaxed a guy into putting it onto a t-shirt for me. I still have it.

Yes, Redlance & Nightfall were a very special couple.

[halavana.livejournal.com]

I'm a newbie to Elfquest, having read #1 only after reading your post. I saw the original comics in book stores and was curious, but never bought them since I didn't have the money at the time or wasn't willing to risk spending it on anything so new and unfamiliar. Thanks for the info about them being all online now!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I read them at a friend's house when I was in college and they haunted me enough to make me go ferret out my own copies of the first four - Always been tremendously impressed with the grace and detail Wendy Pini puts in to the illustrations, and Cutter and Skywise are a classic hero/rogue pair. :-D Hope you enjoy them!