Quest's End

(The Complete Elfquest: Book Four)
by
Wendy & Richard Pini

Father Tree Press, January 1989, 204 pp.
ISBN: 0-936861-09-X

Genre: Comics
Subgenre: Graphic Novel
Reviewed: 2/19/2002

Reviewed by: Conan Tigard

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Synopsis

After being saved by the Go-Backs, another tribe of elves, and Cutter is healed, Rayek reappears living with the Go-Backs. One-Eye died in the battle with Guttlekraw's trolls and Clearbrook is devastated. Rayek tells the story of how he traveled to this distant place and found a rock shaper names Ekuar, who was a prisoner of the trolls.

Two-Edge shows Cutter a way into the mountain home of the trolls. The call of the palace is stronger inside the mountain and the elves join forces and all enter the mountain. There they find Greymung's trolls working as slaves for Guttlekraw. After rescuing Picknose and the other trolls from the holt, the elves and trolls band together to attack Guttlekraw and hopefully advance to palace.

Quest's End is the a collection of the fourth set of six comic books in the Elfquest series (numbers 16 through 21) written by Wendy and Richard Pini and illustrated by Wendy Pini. Although the original comics were released in black and white, these pages have been colored to add enhancement to  Wendy Pini's detailed artwork.

ElfQuest is both excellently told and drawn with exquisite beauty. Wendy Pini is a very talented artist and really can take the reader deep into the story with the masterful stoke of her pencil. At the end of the book are the front and back covers for Warp Graphics comics, the pages taken out for story consistency, and the front covers for the Epic comics. 

 

Review

Quest's End takes place directly after Captives of Blue Mountain. Even more elves are introduced in the this book, the Go-Backs. They are a warrior-like race of elves that have been battling Guttlekraw's trolls for years. I was disappointed that none of these new elves really stood out.

I did enjoy this completion of the storyline that has been building through the other three books; Fire and Flight, The Forbidden Grove and Captives of Blue Mountain. I also enjoyed having Rayek back. Sure, I never really liked him all that much . . . you weren't supposed to, but he adds a lot to this story.

As usual, the artwork of Wendy Pini is great and the color really adds to the global feel of the book.

Overall, I was happy to finally see Cutter's quest finished. And since I cannot give away the ending, let's just say that it didn't end the way that I hoped or expected.

I rated this book a 9 out of 10.

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2002