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Elfquest #16
WaveDancers
This volume reprints material from the Elfquest anthology comic book series, and collects the starting stories of a new adventure featuring a brand new cast of characters. When the High Ones crashed upon the World of Two Moons, thousands of years in the past, most of the surviving elves scattered to forest and field. But one group found their way to the sea, and over the millennia, learned to adapt to life in the water as mer-elves. For all this time, they've been unknown to other elves and humans alike. But now, as humans explore and exploit not only the land but the sea as well, the WaveDancers face discovery and the suspicion and fear that come with it.
176 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2000
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About the author
Wendy Pini
614 books390 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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August 5, 2025
Read on ElfQuest.com for my Great ElfQuest Read of 2025. I think I'd read some of these chapters before in the anthology issues, but I don't know if I got to the end of them.
I still own the ORIGINAL WaveDancers series, by completely different artists and writers, that somehow the Pinis no longer have the rights to and don't have on their site.
The artwork for this series is really nicely done and I liked all the new sea-elf characters. I was glad they picked up the plot thread from New Blood/Forevergreen where Yun (I think it was Yun?) had seen a mer-elf in a pond... though I don't think that part ever gets an ending since the anthology series got cancelled.
I did read the "unpublished chapters" that are on ElfQuest.com, which gave enough closure that we at least see what happens to Darshek.
On to The Discovery!
I still own the ORIGINAL WaveDancers series, by completely different artists and writers, that somehow the Pinis no longer have the rights to and don't have on their site.
The artwork for this series is really nicely done and I liked all the new sea-elf characters. I was glad they picked up the plot thread from New Blood/Forevergreen where Yun (I think it was Yun?) had seen a mer-elf in a pond... though I don't think that part ever gets an ending since the anthology series got cancelled.
I did read the "unpublished chapters" that are on ElfQuest.com, which gave enough closure that we at least see what happens to Darshek.
On to The Discovery!
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