Elfquest « The Hooded Utilitarian

September 30, 2011
By Stephanie Folse
Blog, Columns
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Elfquest Re-read: Issues 10 and 11

Today, cocoons, reunions, and tall dark handsome strangers!

June 28, 2011
By Stephanie Folse
Blog, Columns
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Elfquest Re-Read: Issues #8 and 9. Partings

Authorial self-inserts, fear and worship, and intriguing hints of other elves ahead!

April 26, 2011
By Stephanie Folse
Blog, Columns
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Elfquest Re-Read: Issues 6 and 7

Elfquest starts a new story arc with issue #6, set several years after the close of #5, and the subtitle reveals that #1-5 were just the prologue to the titular quest. It opens with Savah, the Mother of Memory, searching the psychic void and finding … a faint touch from something or someone.

March 16, 2011
By Stephanie Folse
Blog, Columns
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Elfquest Re-Read: Issue #5 and Journey to Sorrow’s End

I noticed more visual description in the book than I usually find in the novels I read, and I wonder if that’s due to its comic origins – setting the stage in a highly visual manner as you would draw an establishing panel – or just me seeing it more because I know the comics already?

January 24, 2011
By Stephanie Folse
Blog, Columns
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Elfquest Re-read Issues 3 and 4: Stand Together or Apart

In an attempt to get through the first 20 issues of Elfquest in less than a year and a half, I’ll be tackling issues #3 and #4 today. As always, you can read along at elfquest.com if you don’t have the paper issues.

December 27, 2010
By Stephanie Folse
Blog, Columns
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Elfquest Re-read: Issue #2 Trust and Betrayal

I am writing this column on a borrowed iPad whose keyboard I am not used to. Please excuse any errors, typos, and bizarre auto-suggestions that may survive editing. If you don’t have your own copies of Elfquest, you can follow along at http://www.elfquest.com.

November 29, 2010
By Stephanie Folse
Blog, Columns
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Elfquest Re-read: Issue #1 and Youthful Fannishness

I was introduced to Elfquest about 1980 in Bobbie’s Books, the local used bookstore which doubled as Bryan, TX’s only comic store at the time. I wandered over to the wall racks holding comics near the register, and started poking through them. I owned all of three comics at the time, purchased as some sort [...]