Ooo...YAY!

[webbgirl]

I think rainfletcher might be the only one on my flist who will be interested in this, but I'm so very excited by this story in the Hollywood Reporter!

Elves Gather at Warners

For years and years there has been talk of an ElfQuest movie but it never came to fruition. It'll be interesting to see if this one actually makes it through the process. I'm also curious as to whether it'll be live action or animation. There are pluses and minuses to both. For those of you on my flist who read comic books, I HIGHLY recommend ElfQuest. Especially the original Quest. They're not easy to get your hands on these days, but the color versions are best. If you don't mind reading them online, the official site has been uploading the issues over the past year in celebration of the 30th anniversary.

I've been meaning to make some EQ icons for awhile and this just reminds me I haven't done that yet. I'll use Nightcrawler since Petalwing from EQ made a guest appearance in my favorite Uncanny X-Men.

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[munchkinofdoom.livejournal.com]

Elfquest! Yes! I think, in the end, I adored those first 20 issues more even that I adored Uncanny X-Men. I had a huge crush on Strongbow and Redlance.

I'd prefer animated, but it would terrify me that it wouldn't reflect Wendy Pini's style.

[rainfletcher.livejournal.com]

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!")