Elfquest Reader's Collection: Worldpool [Paperback]

Wendy Pini (Author), Richard Pini (Author), Bill Neville (Author), Brandon McKinney (Author), Barry Blair (Author), Kim Yale (Author), Pam Fremon (Author), Carla Speed McNeil (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Warp Graphics Pubns (July 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0936861738
• ISBN-13: 978-0936861739
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,777,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars More like a fan magazine, May 6, 2011

By 

Talvi - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)   

This review is from: Elfquest Reader's Collection: Worldpool (Paperback)

Worldpool is a collection of 'what if' or alternate stories. And they are all done by different artists. One imagines Elfquest as a Smurfs type of scenario and another one saw Winnowill drawn like Jessica Rabbit. Yet another sees an Indiana Jones type of art and storyline with a 'trick' ending that could be seen yards away and made the entire story kind of pointless.

As a result, this book can be hard to get into, especially if you love the canon a lot. I wouldn't say the artwork by the various artists was bad - but it wasn't an interesting or intriguing new take on the Elfquest world either. Do you want to see the Elfquest elves as smurfs with Winnowill running around crazily and channeling Jerry Lewis antics?

The last story is very Pini - reimagining the storyline if Cutter had been born from a human mother paired with Bearclaw and the elves enslaved by the Djunn. It wasn't bad but it also lacked a lot of the pathos and emotion of the series as well.

As much as I love Elfquest, this is not a book in the series that I can recommend.

12 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too many other authors., September 26, 2000

By 

Calista E. Tait (somerville, MA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Elfquest Reader's Collection: Worldpool (Paperback)

I love elfquest, but this is one of the worst books in the readers collections. There are a collection of stories that don't fit anywhere else, and all but one shoudln't have been published at all. The store of Egg's meeting with Timmain is wonderful, good art, good story. It is the only one worth while. The others have poor art and chatoic story lines. The store where sutter was a cross breed between elf and human, rather than a wolf rider wear bearable to read, but not really enjoyable. The other stories I couldn't get through. Don't wast your money. Find a back issue with the the storry about Egg.