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Elfquest DC #4
ElfQuest: The Grand Quest Volume 2
A grand saga follows the adventures of human, trolls, and various elfin tribes.
224 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2004
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About the author
Wendy Pini
615 books395 followersWendy Pini is one-half of a husband and wife team with Richard Pini that created, most notably, the Elfquest series.
Wendy was born in California and adopted into the Fletcher Family in Santa Clara County. Early on, she developed as an artist and was the illustrator of her high school year book. She submitted samples of her artwork to Marvel Comics at 17 that were rejected.
Pini attended Pitzer College and received her B.A. in the Arts and joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society.
In 1972, she married Richard Pini and began illustrating science fiction magazines, including Galaxy, Galileo, and Worlds of If. In 1977, Richard and Wendy established a publishing company called Warp Graphics to publish their first Elfquest comic. Elfquest was self-published for 25 years and in 2003, licensed to DC Comics. The comic series has won several awards, including the Ed Aprill Award for Best Independent Comic, two Alley Awards, the Fantasy Festival Comic Book Awards for Best Alternative Comic, and the Golden Pen Award.
Wendy has illustrated other works, including Jonny Quest in 1986, Law and Chaos in 1987, and in 1989, two graphic novels of Beauty and the Beast. Recently in 2007, she completed a graphic novel entitled The Masque of Red Death.
Wendy has received several awards over the last four decades, including the San Diego Comic Convention Inkpot Award, the New York State Jaycees Distinguished Service Award, the Balrog Award for Best Artist, and was inducted into the Friends of Lulu Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame in 2002.
Wendy and her husband currently reside in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Wendy was born in California and adopted into the Fletcher Family in Santa Clara County. Early on, she developed as an artist and was the illustrator of her high school year book. She submitted samples of her artwork to Marvel Comics at 17 that were rejected.
Pini attended Pitzer College and received her B.A. in the Arts and joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society.
In 1972, she married Richard Pini and began illustrating science fiction magazines, including Galaxy, Galileo, and Worlds of If. In 1977, Richard and Wendy established a publishing company called Warp Graphics to publish their first Elfquest comic. Elfquest was self-published for 25 years and in 2003, licensed to DC Comics. The comic series has won several awards, including the Ed Aprill Award for Best Independent Comic, two Alley Awards, the Fantasy Festival Comic Book Awards for Best Alternative Comic, and the Golden Pen Award.
Wendy has illustrated other works, including Jonny Quest in 1986, Law and Chaos in 1987, and in 1989, two graphic novels of Beauty and the Beast. Recently in 2007, she completed a graphic novel entitled The Masque of Red Death.
Wendy has received several awards over the last four decades, including the San Diego Comic Convention Inkpot Award, the New York State Jaycees Distinguished Service Award, the Balrog Award for Best Artist, and was inducted into the Friends of Lulu Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame in 2002.
Wendy and her husband currently reside in Poughkeepsie, New York.
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May 3, 2020
This is volume #2 in DC Comic's graphic novel collection presenting the "Elfquest: The Grand Quest" cycle of stories. Wendy's artwork is still wonderful, as is Richard's writing. While the first volume was suitable for all ages, this issue brings in more mature themes of sex and even homosexuality—something that went unnoticed when I first read these stories as a young boy. At the time I was all about the freewheeling attitude of Skywise, to play endlessly with women without getting overly attached, but was also proud of the way that Cutter devoted himself heart and soul to Letah. Their relationship is finally consummated in this volume in some of the most romantic scenes that Wendy Pini has ever drawn. All of the sexual material is respectful, joyous, lovely, and deeply comforting.
Where the first volume dealt with the tribe's expulsion from their comfortable forest home and saw them united with a new tribe of elves, this volume is the true beginning of the 'Grand Quest.' Cutter is enchanted by the prospect that other elven tribes might be out there, and spurred on by the fragmentary recollections of Savah, sets off on a journey to find them, promising to return if his search proves fruitless. Letah gives birth to twins; Suntop and Ember. Some starving humans wander into the peaceful confines of Sorrow's End with a message of doom for the elves. On their journey back through the ruined burned out forest Cutter and Skywise are captured—briefly—by trolls and a secret is revealed that will have significant consequences for the future.
What I enjoyed most about this volume was the realistic way the tribes were becoming integrated, each coming to accept the other but neither abandoning their individual identities. The story is fast enough to keep my interest but doesn't rush unnecessarily. Wendy and Richard are in this for the long haul and want us to love these elves as much as they do, so take the time to allow each character to shine. Yet another great example of the comic book medium at its best.
Where the first volume dealt with the tribe's expulsion from their comfortable forest home and saw them united with a new tribe of elves, this volume is the true beginning of the 'Grand Quest.' Cutter is enchanted by the prospect that other elven tribes might be out there, and spurred on by the fragmentary recollections of Savah, sets off on a journey to find them, promising to return if his search proves fruitless. Letah gives birth to twins; Suntop and Ember. Some starving humans wander into the peaceful confines of Sorrow's End with a message of doom for the elves. On their journey back through the ruined burned out forest Cutter and Skywise are captured—briefly—by trolls and a secret is revealed that will have significant consequences for the future.
What I enjoyed most about this volume was the realistic way the tribes were becoming integrated, each coming to accept the other but neither abandoning their individual identities. The story is fast enough to keep my interest but doesn't rush unnecessarily. Wendy and Richard are in this for the long haul and want us to love these elves as much as they do, so take the time to allow each character to shine. Yet another great example of the comic book medium at its best.
June 22, 2022
Just as nostalgic and fun, delving even deeper into the lore that makes this series strong.
March 1, 2013
Bodybuilder und Supermodels
Wer genug hat von den ätherischen Tolkien-Elfen kann sich hier ein neues Bild von Elfen machen: Die Bodybuilder- und Supermodel-Elfen der Elfquest-Reihe. Die Welt dieser Wesen ist klar zweigeteilt - es gibt die bösen, hässlichen, hinterlistigen Trolle und Menschen, und dagegen die schönen, edlen und wohlwollenden Elfen. Die Geschichten sind dementsprechend einfach - viel Tiefe sollte man also nicht erwarten. Dafür wird man durch schöne Zeichnungen belohnt und in eine ansprechende Fantasy-Welt versetzt, in der man sich mittreiben lassen kann und sich nicht mit tiefenpsychologischen Fragestellungen rumschlagen muss.
Das Format gefällt mir - kleinformatig und schwarz-weiß gedruckt kann man hier die Story der Elfenwanderung kompakt nachverfolgen.
Wer genug hat von den ätherischen Tolkien-Elfen kann sich hier ein neues Bild von Elfen machen: Die Bodybuilder- und Supermodel-Elfen der Elfquest-Reihe. Die Welt dieser Wesen ist klar zweigeteilt - es gibt die bösen, hässlichen, hinterlistigen Trolle und Menschen, und dagegen die schönen, edlen und wohlwollenden Elfen. Die Geschichten sind dementsprechend einfach - viel Tiefe sollte man also nicht erwarten. Dafür wird man durch schöne Zeichnungen belohnt und in eine ansprechende Fantasy-Welt versetzt, in der man sich mittreiben lassen kann und sich nicht mit tiefenpsychologischen Fragestellungen rumschlagen muss.
Das Format gefällt mir - kleinformatig und schwarz-weiß gedruckt kann man hier die Story der Elfenwanderung kompakt nachverfolgen.
May 2, 2008
As wonderful as the first one.
«The Wolfriders and the Sun Folk have become a single tribe and peace settles over Sorrow's End - until the arrival of humans, even in this remote oasis. Cutter realizes that his race can never be safe until all elf tribes are found and united. With his trusted friend Skywise he sets out on his new quest, only to discover old secrets and new peril in the lands beyond the ruined Holt.»
«The Wolfriders and the Sun Folk have become a single tribe and peace settles over Sorrow's End - until the arrival of humans, even in this remote oasis. Cutter realizes that his race can never be safe until all elf tribes are found and united. With his trusted friend Skywise he sets out on his new quest, only to discover old secrets and new peril in the lands beyond the ruined Holt.»
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