ElfQuest was my gateway drug into comics. First ElfQuest, then the X-books, and all downhill from there.
Since it appears that I will in no way be able to make it to the convention, I would appreciate any ElfQuest-related news you might happen to stumble across in your travels.
If you saw my post on this very topic, then yeah, you know that I'm taking this quite seriously. I do hope they get it done this time. The news from Wendy herself that Dodgeball-guy grew up reading the series and was a big fan went some distance toward calming my nerves about it.
Now, I do have to ask: do/did you read EQ from a slasher's perspective? See, even a casual glance at recent fandom reveals that it's approximately 80 percent speculation about whether Cutter and Skywise ever had sex with one another. With all due respect to slashers and yaoi afficionados, I don't remember that being the all-important question of the storyline.
I'm scared that if I look much closer, I'm going to find this story that I love reduced to shipping wars and cutesy pairing names. ("Oh yeah? Cutfall all the way! Redlance sucks!")
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on 2008-07-11 04:48 pm (UTC)Since it appears that I will in no way be able to make it to the convention, I would appreciate any ElfQuest-related news you might happen to stumble across in your travels.
If you saw my post on this very topic, then yeah, you know that I'm taking this quite seriously. I do hope they get it done this time. The news from Wendy herself that Dodgeball-guy grew up reading the series and was a big fan went some distance toward calming my nerves about it.
Now, I do have to ask: do/did you read EQ from a slasher's perspective? See, even a casual glance at recent fandom reveals that it's approximately 80 percent speculation about whether Cutter and Skywise ever had sex with one another. With all due respect to slashers and yaoi afficionados, I don't remember that being the all-important question of the storyline.
I'm scared that if I look much closer, I'm going to find this story that I love reduced to shipping wars and cutesy pairing names. ("Oh yeah? Cutfall all the way! Redlance sucks!")