WARP Graphics puts ElfQuest online

[liz_marcs]

ElfQuest is one of those stone age-type independent comics franchises from the late 1970s about...what else...Elves trying to make it in the big, bad world of the Two Moons.

It appears that WARP is putting every single ElfQuest-related comic online.

Just be warned: ElfQuest is massively dated, yo. When I originally read reprints of the original run (the original run was slightly before my time as a comics-reader), it was shiny and new, even by cracked-out, fluffy-pagan, elvish standards.

However, after 30 years since its original run if you're looking at it with fresh eyes you'll probably be rolling them. A lot of what's there is now practically cliché.

That said, the core story is still decent for the first three ElfQuest series. Once you hit the "Hidden Years" arc, things start to get a little bit threadbare.

Still, a free look-see online can only benefit people who are interested in checking out what was once a massive comics phenomenon and independent comics publishing success story.

Comments

[norwegianne.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. I loved the Norwegian translations of it.

[ljmouse.livejournal.com]

There's an Elfquest movie in the works, which may have something to do with this -- publicity for the movie. Yeah, I know the Pinis have been trying to get a movie/cartoon/OVA/etc. made for years and years and years -- and years -- but they sold the rights to Warner Bros earlier this year. (I saw an announcement about it last month I think).

"Format to be determined" as I recall.

I'm tempted to take bets on if it actually happens. EQ has always struck me as a property that would be fiendishly difficult to convert to a marketable movie.

[meallanmouse.livejournal.com]

Oh heavens, this takes me back...

Thanks for the link!

[kajivar]

Oh, how I loved ElfQuest! :)

[bloodredroses1.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the link. I haven't even thought about EQ for a coon's age. It will be fun to read again if for no other reason than to shake my head & roll my eyes at how the world has changed.

Morgan

[ravenwings-7.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome... ElfQuest was the first comics series I actually read, it's good to see it again.

[gwionfawyr.livejournal.com]

I will take this time to do the ultimate fan girl move.

*dances around, doing the cabbage patch and the running man*

Elfquest online! Hot damn!

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

My Wee Hob Loves Elfquest-- the public library here has several bound volumes of the old comics in the teens section and he's been reading them. I try not to look at them too critically-- at least he's reading. Or looking at the buxom wenches. As I said, I try not to know some things. *shudder*

On another note altogether, my new guy's friends back home have decided I am cool. Why? Because I burned some music I got from you, particularly a couple of the Dropkick Murphy's tracks you shared once, for my friend, who I thought was just a friend I knew in high school who might like some interesting new music. I didn't know he was going to become a little more than that, enough that my coolness factor is now being assessed by people in another timezone and all. Funny how life happens, huh? Even if I'm not entirely sure what is happening.

But I thought it would please you that your musical influence has made me "cool."

So, thanks for that. (Tracks: If I ever Leave this World Alive from the Death writing mood CD you shared - Flogging Molly, and Sunshine Highway, Shipping up to Boston and Wicked Sensitive Crew from Dropkick Murphys.)

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

EEE. How nostalgic!

[nocturnalista.livejournal.com]

How funny. I loved Elfquest back in the day. It was the only comic to which I've ever subscribed.

[hlforever.livejournal.com]

Yay Elfquest! I don't think I could ever look at it and have it feel dated; I grew up on that stuff. Seriously, my parents had the oversized paperback collections and read them to me when I was young. Then I read them myself. Man, this is pretty awesome. I love those books.

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

It has been 30 years, hasn't it? I remember getting the first 10 issues all at once in high school and devouring them. Now I'm scared to go back and read them, and I feel old. :)

[yanagi-wa.livejournal.com]

I still have my originals. Thanks for the heads up.