Dream's End

ElfQuest #15.1

by Wendy Pini, Richard Pini, Barry Blair (Author / Artist)

Once, he was Winnowill's mindless slave.

Then Blue Mountain fell and a band of worshipful humans rescued the Glider called Door. They took him far away to the Forevergreen, where they cared for him, and made him their god as he slept.

One day, he awoke and remembered his servitude. Now, his is the power of life and death over his own human subjects.

Dart and his small band have no love for the "five-fingers". But their elfin honor demands that they join a rebel human band to throw off Door's yoke. Can they prevail against the mad "god's" power?

Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Comics, Adult, Fiction

208 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2001

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

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 3 out of 5]

Barry Blair's ElfQuest storyline continues to be intriguing, but this volume spins its wheels for too long, as Windkin is captured then not captured then captured and as humans increasingly threaten Sorrow's End.

By the time we get to the end of the volume, there's finally some action and some developments, some of them pretty huge for the ElfQuest universe. But with our elven heroes still aimlessly wandering the Forevergreen, one wonders if the next volume is going to be forward momentum of V1 or the stalled promised of V2.

I do have to really complement Blair for creating a strong sense of place in the Forevergreen. The Pinis' ElfQuest is so character-focused that you often lose track of the locale, so to create such a clearly defined place as the Forevergreen, while simultaneously bringing out the geographic uniqueness of Sorrow's End is great, and a nice expansion of the Pinis' setting.

[Katy Lohman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting story continues, as does the bad art.

[Julie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Contains New Blood issues #21-27.

Artwork: blehhhh. Story: very twisty and goes back and forth between the Forevergreen and Sorrow's End. Neither story is great.