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Poison Elves #11
Poison Elves, Volume 11: Dark Wars 2 - Alliances
During Lusiphur's journey back from Fell Keep he meets and begrudgingly befriends Lynn, his dangerous new lover. Luse also forges an alliance with old nemesis, Tenth.
160 pages, Paperback
First published September 12, 2007
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Drew Hayes
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Drew Hayes (Lawrence Andrew Hayes, 20 July 1969 – 21 March 2007) was a writer and graphic artist who is best known as the creator of the long-running independent comic book series Poison Elves .
Hayes began self-publishing I, Lusiphur under the Mulehide Graphics imprint in 1991. He changed the series title to Poison Elves with #8, and continued through #20. During this period, he was a prominent example of creators distributing their black and white comics to the direct market. In 1995 he signed a "lifetime contract" assigning the rights to the series to Sirius Entertainment, where he produced another 79 issues and a color special, the last of which was published in September 2004. His work has been collected in ten Poison Elves paperbacks. He engaged in an ongoing mock "feud" with fellow comics creator Brian Bendis in the letters pages of their books.
Hayes suffered from health problems which hampered his ability to create comics. He was overweight, had suffered cardiac damage from sleep apnea, and had been hospitalized more than once. After undergoing treatment in the hospital and losing weight, he planned to resume creating new issues of Poison Elves, but died at the age of 37, of a heart attack while suffering from pneumonia.
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Please see: Drew Hayes
Drew Hayes (Lawrence Andrew Hayes, 20 July 1969 – 21 March 2007) was a writer and graphic artist who is best known as the creator of the long-running independent comic book series Poison Elves .
Hayes began self-publishing I, Lusiphur under the Mulehide Graphics imprint in 1991. He changed the series title to Poison Elves with #8, and continued through #20. During this period, he was a prominent example of creators distributing their black and white comics to the direct market. In 1995 he signed a "lifetime contract" assigning the rights to the series to Sirius Entertainment, where he produced another 79 issues and a color special, the last of which was published in September 2004. His work has been collected in ten Poison Elves paperbacks. He engaged in an ongoing mock "feud" with fellow comics creator Brian Bendis in the letters pages of their books.
Hayes suffered from health problems which hampered his ability to create comics. He was overweight, had suffered cardiac damage from sleep apnea, and had been hospitalized more than once. After undergoing treatment in the hospital and losing weight, he planned to resume creating new issues of Poison Elves, but died at the age of 37, of a heart attack while suffering from pneumonia.
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November 25, 2016
Reviewing the latest installment in the Poison Elves saga is a bittersweet experience. You see, series creator and underappreciated genius Drew Hayes died last year, and I'm still struggling with that. I didn't know Drew personally (though I did have the good fortune of meeting him once), but as his faithful readers know, we learned more about Drew through the opening page and letters columns of each issue of Poison Elves than we do about most people we interact with on a daily basis. In some ways, Drew was family, and now he's gone, so it's hard to look at this volume without thinking about the fact that he was literally dying while writing it.
Given the circumstances, it's not surprising that Alliances is more uneven than the preceding Poison Elves graphic novels. There's an interlude by Drew that explains how he has been ill, and expected to get the book back on schedule in the future, and he was assisted by a handful of guest artists (who were not credited by Sirius). Alliance was supposed to continue the Dark Wars storyline, but mostly serves as an interlude, with several prose pages, that helps get the major (and minor) characters on the right path towards the major conflict to come.
Honestly, this is probably the weakest of all of the Poison Elves trade paperbacks, and I hate writing that because I completely understand why it is the way it is. I'm also monumentally disturbed that there was absolutely nothing in this collection to even acknowledge Drew's passing. No dedication, no tributes from peers, not even a little introduction or postscript from Sirius to note that the guy who created, wrote, and illustrated every single issue of this series was no longer among the living. There are five more issues that need to be collected, so I'm hoping this infuriating oversight will be corrected in the final Poison Elves trade paperback. If it isn't, Sirius will never see another dollar from me.
Given the circumstances, it's not surprising that Alliances is more uneven than the preceding Poison Elves graphic novels. There's an interlude by Drew that explains how he has been ill, and expected to get the book back on schedule in the future, and he was assisted by a handful of guest artists (who were not credited by Sirius). Alliance was supposed to continue the Dark Wars storyline, but mostly serves as an interlude, with several prose pages, that helps get the major (and minor) characters on the right path towards the major conflict to come.
Honestly, this is probably the weakest of all of the Poison Elves trade paperbacks, and I hate writing that because I completely understand why it is the way it is. I'm also monumentally disturbed that there was absolutely nothing in this collection to even acknowledge Drew's passing. No dedication, no tributes from peers, not even a little introduction or postscript from Sirius to note that the guy who created, wrote, and illustrated every single issue of this series was no longer among the living. There are five more issues that need to be collected, so I'm hoping this infuriating oversight will be corrected in the final Poison Elves trade paperback. If it isn't, Sirius will never see another dollar from me.
January 5, 2021
I love this series. This collection is good with some outstanding artwork. The fact that Drew was able to put out anything when he was very very ill is a tribute to the force of nature he was.
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