Elfquest: The Final Quest Volume 1

Elfquest: The Final Quest #0-6

by Wendy Pini, Richard Pini

For generations, the elves sought a safe haven against all who would do them harm. But the dream that Chief Cutter and his Wolfriders fought and died for, the Palace of the High Ones, may be the very thing destroying them. The skills that helped them survive the harsh world are fading, and there is a growing threat from a tyrant obsessed with exterminating all elves--creating a disastrous brew that must surely boil over.

Volume 1 collects Wendy and Richard Pini's sixty-page special and the first six issues of The Final Quest , the newest adventures of the Wolfriders!

"Even with a bit of a slowdown in pace, Wendy and Richard Pini's " The Final Quest" is a pleasant read. And with the setup for what's to come next time, I'm looking forward to seeing them in "60," as the old issues' letter-column liked to state things. I suspect readers who made it this far will agree." - Comic Book Resources

"Elfquest is just one of those stories that you never want to end. It's so visually pleasing, I would be totally down for a virtual game or even just a tour of the palace. So yet again, Elfquest scores a five out of five." - Comic Bastards

"Wendy Pini's art is as strong as it ever was, and we feel for the characters as they move forward in time and in their individual lives. The scripting augments the beautiful art so very well! If you're looking for some engaging fantasy, don't miss The Final Quest! It's something special and will pull you in from the first time you read it!" - Major Spoilers

Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Fiction, Comic Book, High Fantasy

187 pages, Paperback

First published April 14, 2015

About the author

Wendy 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.

Reviews

[Calista · Rating 3 out of 5]

It feels like I came in the middle of something. Reading reviews, it appears this has been a comic for decades, who knew. Well, as someone new to this novel, I had a hard time keeping the elves separate and straight. They blended together.

I did enjoy the art, it is something stylish and different. I did begin to get into the story toward the end, but it kept jumping around and it was tough to follow. I also think there is something before this I will check out.

The humans are hunting the wolves. This feels like it is more for fans of the original than new readers.

[Online Eccentric Librarian · Rating 3 out of 5]

More reviews (and no fluff) on the blog http://surrealtalvi.wordpress.com/

Like so many fans, I was along for the ride from the beginning: back in the 1980s haunting my local comic shop every 3 months, hoping the newest issue was coming out. And then the Starblaze/Donner editions came out in glorious color and I considered myself one of the biggest Elfquest fans. Of course, eventually the troubles began at WaRP- Wendy worn out from her intricate drawing work, Richard constantly embattled with lawsuits and issues with the way he ran WaRP. But the tipping point for me was a Comic Con I attend in the 1990s just to meet the Pinis and get an issue signed; when I met Richard Pini at the WaRP booth, I gushed, I adored, and I was curtly told to buy a comic if I wanted a signature before his back turned on me in annoyance of bringing my own copy to be signed rather than buying from him. Crushed at being so summarily dismissed, I meekly bought the issue again and left without any signatures.

And then last month, I noticed "The Final Quest" has come out and hoped this hearkened back to the original series. There have been so many 'Elfquest iterations' through the years; many not worth the time to read and feeling more like poor fan art. Certainly, nothing came anywhere close to the original Quest over the years.

With this first volume of the Final Quest arc, the art finally feels like Wendy's work. Granted, the details and intricacies are gone so somehow it admittedly seems more like a shadow of her work. But I'd rather have this than no Wendy at all, truth be told. So although the characters are true to the original Quest, I can't help but feel a bit let down.

The stories, though, were honestly all over the place. The whole volume doesn't come together like one story so much as little vignettes to close up storylines (Kahvi's end, for example) or show new character births before they are grown up in volume 2 (e.g., Suntop's daughter). Perhaps because this is a rebirth of Elfquest once again being a Pini enterprise, there is a running storyline of rebirth/childbirth. But with every 4 pages jumping between locations/timelines/characters, it feels very random and scattershot. I was hoping for one continual story as with the original Quest, I guess. I honestly couldn't keep track of the characters, there were just too many.

Perhaps owing to the modern times, the coloring and varying line widths were very distracting. Characters changed looks a lot as a result; I can't help but feel that although it is wonderful to have color, quality of the production was compromised somewhere as a result. It's not a major thing and certainly doesn't overly detract; but it is there.

Will I continue to follow The Final Quest? Definitely. Already by volume 2 the story begins to coalesce a bit more and isn't as jumpy as before. But the rushed scattershot storytelling continues, unfortunately. Precious few pages given to each little scene that could honestly have been stretched out to be far more satisfying.

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

I remember trying to read this years ago before I had read any of the preceding ElfQuest volumes and being utterly baffled and lost. Now, countless hundreds of gorgeously illustrated black and white pages read later, I am finally ready for this "Final Quest" in all its Technicolor™️ brilliance.

These books certainly have no qualms showing Humanity at its Worst and another human tyrant takes up the Djunn mantle and seeks to Gargamel the poor Wolfriders. Fortunately, though, some otherworldly powers are still at play and the four-fingered ones with invariably sexy abs are still very much in the fight. Looking forward to the remaining volumes before saying goodbye to the World of Two Moons.


I wasn't kidding about those abs, eht?

[Spider the Doof Warrior · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was good. Great art, a return of characters you deeply love, so you know they're going to suffer which is AGONY because I love all of them and want to wrap them in wrap stuff so they don't have to suffer more loss and misery because these little people have been through ENOUGH. They are at the crossroads. Choices have to be made. They have to deal with humans, some who have become family and not just enemies. They have to decide between a soft safe life, and a wide life full of doom and danger that builds character and strength. It's interesting and painful to see where this is heading because almost ALL OF THESE CHARACTERS ARE AWESOME.

It's a world I want to live in with my very own wolf.

[Mel · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a teenager Elf Quest was my favourite comics. I collected them all, in all the different versions, and re-read them over and over. I stopped reading in the early 90s when the series divided and they brought on lots of new writers, and new titles, and being a poor university student I couldn't afford to keep up with them all. But when I heard they were doing a "final quest" I decided to start back in on them. I must say I was quite disappointed. I'm sure a lot of readers went back to this as I did and I wonder if they were all as lots. First off there were LOTS of elves, all over, 4 or so different tribes, and it was confusing to remember who was who and their pasts. The first issues seemed to be entirely focused on breeding! Which didn't seem like a very strong start to me. It picked up a bit as the story focused on Ember's tribe being attacked by humans, but there really didn't seem like much point, as they could be rescued at any time by the others showing up in the palace, so there was no real threat. The part that was most interesting to me was the mystery of what happened to Khavi that was slowly revealed throughout the comic (though I was hoping for something a little more dramatic than what was finally said). But it was the best thread. Her and Ember were my two favourite characters. It was nice to see Ember grown up. But while there were a lot of people referencing what happened before it really wasn't done in a way that made sense (ie Skywise's giving up his wolf blood?) I will get the next volume for completeness but overall it wasn't as good as I was expecting.

[Shadowdenizen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Though I've been following the Elquest saga since it's origins, and the art and storyline (like it's readers) have matured over the years, anytime I pick up a new "Elfquest" book, it's immediately like being transported back to my childhood, when I first picked up the WARP Graphics issues of the "Original Quest"; very few comics currently evoke that true, deep, ingrained sense of nostalgia for me, but Elfquest is one of them.

While this new series does require some knowledge of the previous parts of the saga to fully enjoy it, that shouldn't be a barrier to entry for most, as the previous story-arcs are available online for free, or Dark Horse is currently putting out inexpensive B&W compilations of the previous arcs.

That said, Wendy and Richard Pini never disappoint, and this new "Final Quest" arc seems like a pivotal turning point in the saga of our friends from the World of 2 Moons. (It's good to see Ember taking a deserved place at the forefront of the title!)

I particularly admire the Pinis' determination to reamin true to the core of the characters, even as they evolve and grow (sometimes in totally unepxected directions), and the Pini's, through their complex stories, also make the reader pause to reflect on such important issues as love, life, death, gender identity, and prejudices.

Recommended for: Elfquest fans, Fantasy fans, Fans of comics with deeply moving plots, Fans of comics with richly-drawn art.

[Nancy · Rating 4 out of 5]

*Includes a few minor spoilers*

The Wolfrider saga is complex with a multi-generational elf tribe and long-running storylines, so coming back into this story (even after some catch-up) proved to be challenging. The Wolfriders have broken into two tribes, one led by chief Cutter who has led this band of elves from the beginning of the series, and the other is led by Ember his adult daughter, so that way if one tribe is destroyed by humans the Wolfriders will live on. Cutter is known as Kinseeker, as he has united the many elven tribes and remembers the past as other elves do not, as their memories fade after thousands of years.

A human tyrant Angrif Djun is intent on destroying all elves and unites other tribes in a war against Ember’s tribe. Kidnapped for a time, Ember’s plight is worsened as she is fighting off the effects of Recognition from her lover Tier, a time when two elves unite to create a child. Different elves, absent for a while, are being drawn back home as the mystical Palace of the High Ones sends off an aura of magic that strengthens their powers. The fates of some elves are revealed, as this first of the planned four begins to try to tidy up the many many threads of narratives for this series.

A longer review (along with V2) can be found on my blog: https://graphicnovelty2.com/2020/05/0...

[Rachel Nabors · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's not the slow, beautiful, detailed Elf Quest I met in my youth: the colors are not the best digital coloring and don't do justice to the rich washes of the analog days, and the first half of the book feels like a recap of untold stories (possibly leaving openings for more stories down the line), and the art is less detailed than it once was.

But, the Pinis are getting older. The comics world has changed much. I understand that the person you marry will look very different when you die, but you will love them no less. So it is with Elf Quest.

[Dawn Livingston · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anything they do is worth getting for the artwork alone, and the fact that it's also in color...

I used to read Elfquest over a decade ago and lost track at some point. I think there were just too many titles and too many that didn't have the Pini's unique artwork that I found so mesmerizing.

I loved catching up on what happened to certain characters and which are still around though I did have to research the names on-line to know who they were ( http://elfquest.com/characters/ ). This graphic novel is an excellent summary of her world and the characters including both the new and old. Of course, it can't replace reading the individual comics and having the stories bloom from book to book but... I think this is a must for anyone that is or has been a fan of Elfquest.

[Anniken Haga · Rating 5 out of 5]

I haven't read The Final Quest since its issues were released one at a time with three months or so between them. I remember thinking at the time that I felt the story was missing something. I liked it spanning over a longer time and showing all the different tribes and how they survived, but I still felt like the story was only told on the surface. That partially changed when reading this collection of the first 6 volumes.

This first book is a mix of re-introducing the elves and their lives to the audience, as well as the opening to a new storyline. I felt like it all hung somewhat better together, when read this way. There were hints and tips of what would happen and which characters might be mentioned/important already from the first volume, and my heart broke at Ember's trial.

The art is beautiful and vibrant, but also somewhat simpler than the original series. The way the elves are dressed and the colors that are important in this issue are more marked by modern times than originally - as the series was first published in the 70s, with bell-bottom pants and everything! - but it's not something I would have noticed, if I hadn't taken a look at some of the other reviews written for this volume.

[Christine · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hmmm, I think I jumped too far ahead in the series without meaning too because I am confused. I think there are a few books between this one and the last collection I read, despite what the ad indicates.

[David Sarkies · Rating 1 out of 5]

These Aren't the Elves I was Looking For
30 December 2015

Here I go again – I read an awesome graphic novel so I go and grab another one and it turns out to be rubbish. Actually, I didn't read it because I had just had a great experience with a graphic novel, rather I read it because I had bought it while visiting one of the three comic book stores in Adelaide and wanted to finish it before New Years Eve so I can dump it on a friend rather than have it cluttering up my house (and what he does with it I really don't care – I'm sure he'll know somebody who will read it). Mind you, I'm probably being a little harsh on the book because I did discover that I jumped into a well established story (despite the fact that it was labelled volume 1 – which was the reason that I bought it), but I suspect that I probably wouldn't be all that thrilled with any of the earlier editions either.

Okay, I'm can't really pinpoint exactly what I didn't like about it – the art work seemed a bit too cartoonish for my taste, and the elves were more like fairies, but then again ever since I roleplayed with a friend who absolutely detested elves, I haven't been a big fan of them either. Mind you, I prefer the arrogant isolationist elves who consider themselves to be vastly superior to pretty much everybody else, where as these elves were a bunch of nature loving hippies that could do nothing wrong.

This brings up one of the interesting things about the comic because it took almost half of it for the actual story to start up. The first half seemed to just be the elves doing what elves do, and simply did not add anything to the plot – and then a bunch of humans rock up, attack their village, and then chase them up the mountain to slaughter the lot of them, referring to them as demons that are evil and must be killed. When it got to this part of the novel it reminded me of one of the basic traits of humanity – we fear and loathe that which is different to us, to the point that we must destroy it. Many people claim that white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are quite racist, but to be honest with you you will find that where-ever you go. When I was in Hong Kong I discovered that a lot of the Chinese there really didn't like us white people, and I have learnt that the Thai are very much the same. We also have a go at Muslims in the Middle East for being intolerant towards non-Muslims, when we are very much the same here. Then there are the French – we have a go at the French for getting annoyed when people go to France and don't speak French when we have the exact same attitude towards people who can't speak English that come to Australia.

The thing that struck me the most though was the European's attitude (in particular the British) towards the native inhabitants of the lands that they had colonised. If the inhabitants weren't Christian then we would consider them heathen, and chase them out, and those who converted to Christianity we would expect them to not just take on our belief's but our culture as well – you weren't a real Christian unless you ate your meals with a knife and a fork. In a way the humans' attitudes towards the elves – referring to them as demons because they were different (and also used magic) - is quite reflective of our attitude towards people who did not live in houses with fences and had a civilisation similar to ours. Well, the Chinese (and the Aztecs) had a pretty sophisticated civilisation, but we still attempted to conquer and dominate them because, well, they weren't European.

[Ken-ichi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Earlier this year I visited a colleague's home in Texas. This guy is about my age and also a naturalist, but otherwise pretty much my exact opposite: big, talkative, persistent, Texas accent, Texas cowboy boots, raises chickens, hunts deer, *serious* birder (I am a birder, but a lackadaisical one, who could not pick a Pectoral Sandpiper out of a flock of Least Sandpipers, which, to some birders, is like not being a birder at all). So, I was flabbergasted when, seconds after inviting me in, he said, "I was looking at your Facebook profile the other day and noticed you were into Elfquest," and proceeded to point toward a full run of EQ graphic novels displayed prominently on his shelf, including this one. He said that Elfquest had played a crucial role in making him a conservationist as a kid, which was also my experience, and the experience of at least one other naturalist I know.

I relay this both because I thought it was pleasantly shocking, but also to emphasize how much this series means to a lot of people like me, i.e. quite a bit. That said, I think for a lot of us, Elfquest was over by book 4, or maybe by book 8, and everything since has been revisiting the old themes with less and less vigor and style. So before even picking up this book, my expectations were low, though my need to catch up with my Wolfrider friends was great.

Wendy's pencils are as unrivaled as they ever were in this book: exquisite line work throughout, expressive and unique faces, kinetic but clear layouts. She is a master. Color and general use of digital technologies are another story. In my opinion there is just way too much unsubtle use of gradients, blurs, and clumsy resizing in this book. There are numerous pages where it's really obvious Wendy drew several panels at the same scale and they were enlarged or shrunk to fit, with no attempt to make the line weights match up. This probably bothers me more than most people, but I think it makes some pages look like a bit of a hack job, which is maddening when the pencils being hacked up are, as I mentioned, masterpieces.

Narratively, I think there are just too many characters and too many disparate plot lines for this book to cohere very well. When did Moonshade and Strongbow have a kid and by Timmorn's blood how did anyone allow her name to be "Freetouch"?! The deepening rift between the mortal Wolfriders and the immortal elf races is compelling, though, even if it is a well worn path on the World of Two Moons, and I hope future books in the series will coalesce around this theme. In my opinion, Cutter needs to die, and perhaps all the Wolfriders need to die, for the value of mortality this series has expressed from the beginning to achieve its ultimate expression. We'll see if the Pinis are willing to go that far.

[Chris Presta-Valachovic · Rating 2 out of 5]

My jury's out on this one. I loved the original Elfquest. I even loved Siege at Blue Mountain & Broken Wheel. I tried to keep up through the whole Shards/Wild Hunt/Dreamtime stories (and I did not like the text-heavy end of Shards), and absolutely hated Jink & the Rebels & a lot of the third-party stories that came about after Shards ended. But this?

Things seem to happen too fast. Points are introduced, then are resolved quickly, and there's some of this that I could swear I've read before. I get that the Pinis are trying to wrap everything up, but there is such a thing as too fast.

[saradevil · Rating 1 out of 5]

I own that I've gotten older, but man, does it feel like this series just became obsessed with their own history so much that it's impossible to just pick it up and jump into a good adventure with the Wolfriders. If you haven't read every little thing than you are just going to find youself drowning in a bunch of relationships that make no sense, and struggling to remember why who can do what, and who is sleeping with who, and what is okay with everyone and....UGH...

I'm glad they are putting this series to rest because, with the final quest, they managed to kill it dead.

[寿理 宮本 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have this complicated relationship with ElfQuest, especially for having never properly read it before. I'd heard of it long ago but didn't have the money to invest in a series that didn't really catch my interest other than the artwork looked good, focusing instead on things slightly more targeted to my direct interests. At the same time, once when I was drawing something, a random passerby saw me and told me my art looked like ElfQuest.

Which.

Was vaguely flattering at the time, since I didn't and don't have a lot of confidence in my work, but—objectively—the only similarity this has to my style is the line art, that I was drawing "cartoon" characters vs. photorealistic. I don't really have an example to show, but I just don't see it.

Well, okay, I have an example to show, but it's not mine:



Anyway, I don't really know what I expected from a volume titled, "THE FINAL QUEST"—book 1 of (?) or no. It was in a free library is the only reason I tried reading it at all, and... it's not as such *bad* but it quickly leans HEAVILY into flashbacks I don't really understand and (re)introduces a very lot of characters for a complete newcomer to pick up. On top of that, it introduces two VERY new characters (newborns, in fact), which is about the extent of story I've managed to ascertain from what I read.

The art is also, by comparison, not as impressive as I used to think it was. It's not as such *bad*, but by now I have read so many books just in the last two and a half years that this isn't "OH WOW AMAZING" anymore. (I've probably been spoiled by Tracy J. Butler and Lackadaisy raising the bar so high.) Like, will my art ever look as good as ElfQuest? I don't think so. At the same time, it has some quirks that just put me off slightly compared to when I first saw the series: the characters' proportions feel weird, plus they feel very "stilted" somehow, like they're always posed in the same poses and don't move very fluidly.

I don't know. Reviewing according to my impressions now, giving some benefit of the doubt that this is decent if I actually read the prior installments before this one. Not terribly inviting to totally new readers.

[KSena · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve read the Elfquest books since I was a kid and found the first one translated in a library, broken and overly used. I loved it SO MUCH though! Ever since I hunted for the translated ones, but they never continued to translate them… As I got older, I started buying them in english and reading them. Now I have ALMOST all of them, and they’re the gem in my book collection.


This last series I have read when it was first released and arrived to my favorite swedish book/comic store. But now I’ve decided to re-read them.


The most heartbreaking part of this story is the start of the split between Strongbow and Moonshade. Those two are my favorite characters, and they have been from start. To see that breaks my heart every time.


I do like Krim as well, so to see her ending was both heartbreaking and joyful! YES! Because she’s a Go Back and she really does both live and die by the sword.


I didn’t know that much about the human ‘The Silent One’ as Ember and her part of the tribe calls him, since those are the books I haven’t been able to get. But the story of him and Krim still touched me.


Ember and Tier, oh dear… Ember is really going through it in this one, poor girl. But she’s Cutters and Leethas daughter, so her bravery, strength and stubbornness is really put to the test here. I loved it.


And finding out more about Tier was also wonderful!


There’s so much… There’s just so many characters in Elfquest and all of them is near and dear to my heart.


There’s just nothing like Elfquest around! I can’t believe it took Wendy and Richard Pini over 40 years to finish the story!!! (More or less…) And the throwbacks to older storylines are far and many!


Best you can get when it comes to comics and graphic novels.

[Maja · Rating 2 out of 5]

When I was a teenager, I loved Elfquest. I still do, to be honest. Even now I can remember the way those hardcover editions of the first adventures felt like, the ones I used to borrow from the library again and again. I think it was one of the first comic series that I discovered and that was wholly *mine*. I read and loved Marvel, but it was something readily available at home. Elfquest I found on my own, and it had all the things I cared about at the time: magic, wolfriding elves, epic love and complex adventures. I loved so many characters and their long story arcs.
Going back for this new "Final Quest" volume has been strange. Some of it is the fact that I'm just not the same person anymore, and I don't relate to the stories the same way. And then some of it is the fact that this volume just doesn't seem very good either way. In a way, the world has become too complex. There's so many characters and so many years of backstory, and this volume often feels more like a nostalgic trip than something fresh and new. I didn't connect to it, and I don't think I'll be reading the other ones. If I want Elfquest, I'll just go back to the old comics.

[K · Rating 1 out of 5]

...weird, I didn't like this at all. I'm not sure if I missed a bunch of content in between the second compilation volume and this, but I had no idea what was going on most of the time, and I mostly didn't care.

There were so many new characters, many of them introduced as babies who suddenly grew up in a two-page twenty-year timeskip. I couldn't keep track of names or faces; I didn't care about any of the ones who were introduced just to be killed off; I missed seeing the original characters I'd spent so many pages with.

This turned out to be only the first of 7 volumes in this new story arc, but I skimmed around a bit online and found out it apparently ends with Cutter's death, which then leads to a Skywise spinoff...which I would love, but I certainly don't want to read about him without Cutter. So I'll end my journey with the elves here. The first two adventures were pretty grand. This one, not so much.

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nobody does it like Wendy and Richard Pini. Truly. I've always known as I made my way through all the side stories that the artwork was inferior; some was good in its own way. But coming back to Wendy at her most masterful is just mind-blowing. Every panel is stellar. The colors are also amazing, so kudos to that person as well. Really high-quality ebook rendering, too.

The story is really good so far. It's sad in places - this made me tear up - but so well done and it's so lovely to see the characters written so true to their previous selves. There's plenty of new revelations and surprising turns.

The weirdest part is, it redid the story from the Summer Special 2001 #2 - Recognition. I'm not complaining. This version was better all around and got to have its full completion.

[Taylor-Leigh Derchin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the art style but I was definitely lost during the story. It wasn’t until I started looking at other reviews that this is a continuation of a long running series and this is definitely not the place to start. It would have been a good note or something to put in the description because on kindle it says book 1 of 4 so I just thought it was the beginning.

I don’t think I’m going to backtrack now to find out the story or the correct order of reading. That is definitely my fault though so it won’t hurt my rating because it was still fun and different story that I enjoyed when I started figuring everything out.

[Villain E · Rating 3 out of 5]

Starts with a special issue to get you caught up on the many, many chatacters and introduce a couple new ones. The main story bounces around as Cutter and others debate the future of the elves, but the action comes when Angrif Djunn stumbles upon the new holt of Ember's Wolfriders. I'm a little sad to see Wendy Pini's art go digital. It's not bad, I just miss the rendering from Fire and Flight.

[Mitchell Friedman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Certainly not perfect. It has been weird for a long time to read an Elfquest story for the first time. This one builds on huge mass of stories. Characters die, character rejoin, deaths are explained. It is odd to mix the stories of humans in with the elves - the humans are there for just such a brief time. The art isn't amazing, but it is generally good enough. Sure there are too many characters and places and storylines. And it doesn't seem to be ht end.

[Melissa D'Ortenzio · Rating 5 out of 5]

Insanely good. I'm so glad to have had the patience of waiting to read the last four volumes together. Wendy & Richard, your storytelling and visual art has ruined me for almost every other series out there, or we shall say that it makes my standards so high that most fall short of your shining example. I take a two minute bathroom break and pick up Volume Two of Four.

[Ramin Ayers · Rating 5 out of 5]

Been a long road.

I grew up reading these wonder filled colorful graphic novels and was so happy to find these new to me beautiful pages. With long loved characters and New friends

[Suus · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series holds a special place in my heart, and I figured I might as well reread it. Again. For Mender and Dart, you feel? Burned through all of Final Quest in a morning but I'm listing one book for all of them.

[Elisabeth Arnold · Rating 5 out of 5]

Looooove Elfquest

Love love love. Fantastic as always
Wendy and Richard have been doing it forever. A fitting start to the finalquest

[Jennifer Sigman · Rating 1 out of 5]

Awful. Lore-breaking. Utterly nonsensical. A shame this is what we get to remember the series by.

[Leah]

Turns out I read this the Complete Elfquest Volume 7.

[Don Wallis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful

Amazing read, true to the original Elfquest feel. I absolutely loved it! Would recommend reading it after reading the previous books.