How did you discover ElfQuest?

wow and i thought i was the only alive. i'm glad to run across this group. my brother bought issue #10 or #11 in '83. we fell in love with it. the story was great the art was wonderful, and it was totally DIY. we were floored.we wound up having to mail order most of the back issues from WARP, because noone carried them in the south. it was really cool though 'cause we would get neat stuff from richard and wendy every now and then. got out of it when marvel picked it up. my brother wound up gettin all of the graphic novels so he wouldn't mess up his originals. and we just discovered some of the new spin- offs, new blood and shards were pretty damn good. but then there were these really bad ones that were in space. have you seen those?

I was dissapointed when the art changed but I still bought the new stuff. I got used to it. Any way .... I love the stories. I think I started reading them in 89 or 90. I havent read them in the last six years or so.... do you know... have I missed much? I recently re-read the first 6 graphic novels and was surprised at how much it still moved me.

renaissance faire and being 18...best thing ever, I would just curl up in bed and read my weekends away, it felt like such a safe place to just hide in, i used to have dreams of hiding in tree hollows or holts and the only time someone hypnotized me and told me that i would "awake" in a safe place, i "awoke" in the middle of 3 wolves and curled around me and sleeping...talk about feeling beyond safe and warm, i still remember the feel of the course fur and warmth of breath and thinking this was the most amazing experience ever...sorry, a bit off topic

Ohhh! Pictures! I want to see pictures! I had always thought if were to get a tatoo, it would be EQ related.

Cheers,
Tiff

well, let's see... i have a long and interesting story. I just stumbled across this tribe and thought... wow! there are others out there. So when I was in 3rd grade or so, my godfather bought me the first full color graphic novel. I then collected the next few and became a big fan. Then I heard about a possible EQ movie in the works. Since my father was working in the computer graphics entertainment industry at the time, I thought that introducing the Pinis to some people in the 3D graphics industry would be very cool. Of course, like many things, the whole idea never panned out, but seeing motion capture actors pretending to be Cutter in the trial of heart was too cool for words, especially when my dad did the initial demonstration. We even got to the point of doing a 3D render test of cutter as a CG character, but, like many ideas in hollywood, the plans eventually flushed out. I don't know if it's still there, but the render test was on the elfquest website. After that, I became a rabid collector and now have two whole bookshelves dedicated to elfquest.

I've tapered off recently because the bound collections aren't in that beautiful color anymore, but I appreciate the fact that those were extremely hard to make.

and i still go by my EQ avatar everywhere online... brookswift. no one else seems to get it :)

I lived in the Kaslo area of the Kootenays. I met the characters. I saw their books.

I met those who I knew well. . .upon our very first meeting.
That keeps happening.



We aRe reaL.

the first issue of the marvel epic reprint of the original series was in the comic rack in the 7-11 in my home town. i'd seen ads for it in epic illustrated, liked the look of it, so i grabbed a slurpee and the comic and walked home reading it.

by the time i reached the last page i was hooked (i even found my eyes watering when the holt burned). i was the only fan in my town until a few years later, and i didn't meet any others until i moved to the west coast and found communities where elfquest seems to be as ubiquitous as dr. seuss or stephen king.

A couple of years ago actually. I don't even remember how I came across the webpage (propably something pagan related). Anyway, I read all the online stuff and was just fasinated by the colors and characters. Wolf rider clan appeals to me most-that living in harmony with the forest despite what goes on. Eventually when I hit the comic book store again, I'll look up Elfquest were normally I'm looking at manga and such.

I even did some AU fan fiction solely using Cutter's clan :)

(for those not in the FF world, AU-Alternative Universe)

At age 15 I worked at a Comic Book SciFantasy store. Elfquest came out then and we had the Pini's in for book signings. They came off a bit odd but that could have been from traveling so much and general tiredness. I loved the series though and still have my first books and comics. I have a lot of catch up to do though.

my sisater had the full series in hard cover back in the early 80's. we lived out in the country when I started reading them. We had this huge old tree in the yard that I would sit in while i read for hours. when i would finish a book i could imagine the wolfriders living theor around me ( i was like 7-9 years old). then when i was 11 my new found best friend and i spent a whole summer coming up with our own tribe. fond fond memories. :)

it was Paul, actually, who introduced me to elfquesT, firsT.

he is SO AMAZING!