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Elfquest: The Grand Quest - Volume Eight

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I love Elfquest, and have been a long-time fan of Wendy Pini's moving stories and delicate, sensitive artwork. That said, these "pocket-sized" versions of Elfquest are a travesty. In the early ones the art is so small you can barely tell what's going on, and in the later books, such as this one, it appears that they have attempted to reorganize the art -- splitting what was originally one page into 2. This has resulted in the art being big enough to see, but the layouts of the pages appearing haphazard. Also, because these books are often grayscaled reproductions of what was originally color art, the art looks muddy. Even later editions have that problem.

I'd recommend that both long-time fans and newbies avoid these editions like the plague, and do the best you can to get ahold of the original issues, or at least the older, full-sized graphic novels that Warp produced in the 90's.