Elfquest

Elfquest is an extensive, is divided into different cycles fantasy comic book series of the couple Wendy Pini and Richard Pini, published since 1978, first self-published in WaRP Graphics and later from 2003 at Marvel and DC Comics.

The series is about the epic adventures of an elf base, which is marketed by people from his forest and the world scans of his kind. In parallel, the development history of the people of the Stone Age is represented by in the space age.

In Germany the first books published by Bastion under the series title adventure in the Elven world, and later with Carlsen. The newer volumes also ran in German under the title series Elfquest. The older volumes have been translated into German by the famous German fantasy writer Wolfgang hollow leg.

  • 3.1 Adventures in the Elven world 3.1.1 First German Edition ( bastion )
  • 3.1.2 Bastion Collector's Edition
  • 3.1.3 Second German Edition ( Carlsen )
  • 4.1 series
  • 4.2 Einzelbände
  • 4.3 Complete Edition

Action

The tribe of the Wolf Rider - short stature, long-eared elves - who lives with his allies, the wolves in a huge forest on an Earth-like planet with two moons. When the stone-age people hate stuck the forest on fire, reaper, the leader, and his tribe to flee into the caves of trolls with which the elves combines an old love-hate relationship. But the envious trolls lure them into a withered desert and cut their way back from the single. For days the mistaken desperate and take the heat unwonted Wolf Rider through the empty, burned by the sun country, until they encounter another elf people, The sun people, who in the solar village, which is also called Sorgenend lives. The arable farmer sun villagers are much more peaceful and durable, they too can not understand many peculiarities of their seemingly primitive elves relatives.

Reaper itself has problems from the beginning with the beautiful Leetah, although the two feel attracted since their first meeting in an almost supernatural way to each other. It takes some fierce disputes and a duel with Leetahs childhood friend and admirer Rayek, to "recognize" the two elves that they are made ​​for each other. They will mate and have two children, the blond ray of sunshine, and the red-haired spark.

As evidence of unrest in the world of Two Moons appear, break the wolf riders to look more Elven tribes and unite their people against the people. Soon they discover that there are several other tribes, some of which are still a lot of strange and hostile seem as people. Furthermore, they explore the truly galactic mystery of their origin. Later, after a conflict with the dark elf Winnowill and the megalomaniac human warlord Grohmul Djunn to the Urerbe their people - the floating palace of crystal, with the ancestors of the elves had come from outer space in this world - the tribe shall notify the Wolf Rider on, want to look as the members of their own tasks in them now magnified world.

Elfquest in Germany

In Album Size

The Elfquest comic series was published in German language from 1984 under the title "Adventures in the Elven world." The first edition in Bastion Publisher corresponds to the extent of their individual volumes almost always the first 37 volumes of the American series, but they were all German stories from the beginning always in four colors - in the U.S. they were at first only black and white - and slightly enlarged released as an album (1984 -1992 ). Furthermore, there was a bastion of " collector's edition " ( 1990-91 ), in which each 2 or 3 of the bastion albums have been combined, but this edition was canceled after only nine anthologies.

It was also published in November 1984 in the Goldmann Verlag as a book of the novel adventures in the elf world within the black series Goldmann Fantasy. It is a translation of the American novel Journey to Sorrow 's End by Wendy and Richard Pini and has been translated by Lore Straßl. Content, it includes a retelling of the first five Bastion Comic albums with a description of the search of the Wolf Rider by Sorgenend and the Association of reapers and Leetah, there are many detailed details and additional background information. There were two conditions which are completely out of print.

In the new edition of the first 37 stories in Carlsen Verlag ( 1997-2000), also under the series title adventures in the elf world, either 2 or 3 volumes of the U.S. series were summarized in a large format, four-color album ( sometimes in a different order than in the bastion - collector's Edition ). It published by Carlsen 20 albums and extra of the special anniversary band The first 20 years.

It was ( to 20 1 to 37 and 1, respectively ), however, taken both at Bastion as well as Carlsen in the consecutive numbering of the volumes no regard for the original classification in actually three series ( " Elfquest ", 1-20; Siege at Blue Mountain, 1-8, and Kings of the Broken wheel, 1-9, with only the last cycle title was taken over by Bastion for band 29-37 as subtitles the kings of the broken wheel ').

In magazine format

After that Carlsen has all continuations of the experiences of the elf tribe only in the smaller magazine format, in which all were always " Elfquest " stories published in the U.S., published:

  • Initially it was assumed for the U.S. Elfquest series offshoot "Hidden Years" and " shards " that one in 1998-99 in 18 booklets under the series title Elfquest - published New Adventures in the Elven world. Up to the first of each booklet contained one chapter each from each of the two U.S. series, so you could follow the two different storylines in parallel. These 18 books were later Carlsen ( in content, different order ) titled Elfquest - reissued New adventures in the elf world in 9 heft great albums.
  • Some of the missing episodes of the series Hidden Years were first in Carlsen in two book editions as Elfquest - launched Special, later the missing episodes appeared completely as Elfquest - Hidden Years in 4 heft great albums, complemented by two stories from the U.S. series Blood of Ten Chiefs.
  • Then Carlsen published yet the two short time series of dreams (original Dreamtime, 12 U.S. magazines in four small German albums from 2002) and Kahvi (6 U.S. books in two small German albums from 2003). Last appeared in Carlsen 2005, shortly after the appearance in the U.S., the band The viewfinder and the sword as stapling large single album in Germany.

The other U.S. " Elfquest " Besides series New Blood (35 issues), Two Spear (5 issues), Wave Dancers ( 6 issues ), Blood of Ten Chiefs (20 issues), The Rebels ( 12 issues ) and Jink ( 12 issues ) have not been published in German. The Carlsen Verlag is not currently planning also to publish further Elfquest volumes on German.

The individual German comics

Authors of all the comics mentioned here are Richard and Wendy Pini.

Adventures in the elf world

First German Edition ( bastion )

Bastion Collector's Edition

Second German Edition ( Carlsen )

Elfquest - Hidden Years

Offer in the " Hidden Years" series published individual stories that fill the gaps in the already -told stories that explain the history of the elves race or deeper insight into individual characters. Each story is complete in itself, each album contains 2 to 4 U.S. stories of varying degrees.

Elfquest - The New Adventures

Here are the stories of American " Shards " series the "Hidden Years" series have been completely and released episode 10, only 18 books, then as 9 booklet format albums.

Content: The tribe is divided into two parts. The one part, led by reapers, is where " shards " in the search for the shards of the palace; the other part is examined under the direction of Reaper's daughter spark a new home. Each German comic book treats both the one and the other plot line, so that a sense of simultaneity is mediated. In America, the two strands appeared in separate publications.

Elfquest - Time of Dreams

In this cycle, the own Wolfriders tell one by one, what she has in her dreams during their centuries-long sleep.

Elfquest - Kahvi

This is an individual cycle is about the experiences of Kahvi, the legendary leader of the Snow Elves.

Einzelbände

Exclusive titles in the English language

Series

  • Blood of Ten Chiefs - a comic book series in 20 parts, which deals with the stories of Reaper's ancestors, the legendary "Ten chiefs " the wolf riders, and Reaper's own youth years closer.
  • Wave Dancers - a book series in 6 parts about an elf tribe whose members have adapted to a life in the sea. Your story takes place in parallel but independently of the Elfquest series to the wolf riders.
  • Elfquest: The Discovery - a short series in 4 parts over the meeting of the two elves tribes Wolf Rider and Wave Dancers
  • Jink and The Rebels - two 12-part book series that take place in the distant future of the Elven world in which the heritage of the wolf riders and their Mitelfen after her disappearance from this world is far more noticeable.

Einzelbände

  • Big Elfquest Gatherum (ISBN 0-936861-13-4 ) - a detailed book " Behind the Scenes " with interviews, chronology, synopsis of all the Elfquest series and some individual drawings by Wendy Pini ( no comic stories ).
  • Elfquest - The Official Role Playing Game (ISBN 0-933635-54-0 ) - RPG book about the search for the other elf tribes
  • A Gift of Her Own (ISBN 0-936861 -38- X) - more of a fairy tale book, because a comic strip in which the wolf riders encounter a small human girl and raise their confidence in their very own hidden talent. The story was written by Wendy Pini and illustrated.
  • Bedtime Stories ( ISBN 0-936861-37-1 ) - a collection of short stories outside of the series canon: reaper, heaven Weis and Leetah tell the children sunbeam and spark of fairy tales, which are finally to their own history. The comics were drawn by Gary Kato and partly based on the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and The wishing-ring. The last story, " Ever After " combines all the previous stories to its own end.

Complete Edition

All Elfquest comic series completely, from the beginning of Wolf Rider to all Elfquest Besides series were re- edited 1998-2002 as a complete edition in WaRP Graphics in 31 anthologies under the title " Elfquest Reader's Collection".

Filming

Rumors of a planned film adaptation of the extremely popular " Elfquest " comics since the beginning of the eighties in circulation. Although the couple Pini was very interested in a filmic adaptation of "Adventures in the Elven world " main series from the beginning, and several attempts to undertook - several exposés were completed by Wendy Pini -, all have broken up.

Recently announced on 8 July 2008 announced the film company Warner Brothers that they wanted to film the " Elfquest " series along with Rawson Thurber. Thurber is intended to write the screenplay, directing and also acting as producer. This project is the beginning of 2012 as a set.

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