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ElfQuest: The Roleplaying Game returns from Chaosium

Posted on September 16, 2024 by Brett

The ElfQuest roleplaying game will return! Chaosium and Wendy and Richard Pini have announced that Chaosium will produce a reissue of the tabletop roleplaying game. It was first published in 1984 by Chaosium and based on the comic series created by Wendy and Richard Pini.

ElfQuest: The Official Roleplaying Game was originally written by Steve Perrin, Sandy Petersen, and Yurek Chodak and included several releases including supplements that featured Pini’s artwork.

ElfQuest is a comic series created by Wendy and Richard Pini and debuted in 1978. It’s a fantasy series about different species, like elves, who struggle to survive and coexist on an Earth-like planet. The series has been published by Warp Graphics, Marvel, DC Comics, and Dark Horse Comics currently publishes the series. Every comic published between 1978 and 2013 can be read for free online.

The reissue will be led by Rick Meints and will be working closely with the Pini’s on the development and presentation.

ElfQuest: The Official Roleplaying Game will launch on Kickstarter in October 2014 and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the game. The vintage game will return in its original box edition format with the later supplements included.

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Experience ElfQuest in full in 2025

Posted on August 27, 2024 by Graphic Policy Team

One of the most beloved fantasy series in comic book history is setting out to reach new fans of epic fantasy with a stunning new hardcover volume collection. Wendy and Richard Pini‘s ElfQuest: The Original Quest will be available for new fans and long-time readers alike to experience with a four-book series showcasing the entire Original Quest, now in full color for the first time at Dark Horse. ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 1 will arrive in bookstores in February 2025 and Book 2 in May 2025. The rest of the series is expected to be available before the end of 2025–more details to be announced. Today, ElfQuest readers can pre-order Books 1 and 2 from your favorite book and comics retailers!

A New York Times Best Seller, ElfQuest tells the adventures of elfin chief Cutter and the Wolfriders – a tribe of feral, forest-dwelling elves allied with wolves – as they seek to find their true place in a dangerous world. It’s a story about inclusiveness, self-discovery, finding community and overcoming the forces of bigotry and hate—all wrapped in a visually stunning high-fantasy adventure. Wendy Pini’s artwork blends eastern and western artistic conventions into a new and unique style. ElfQuest has been called “the first American manga.”

In ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 1:

Chief Cutter and the Wolfriders are driven from their forest home by fearful humans bent on their destruction. As they wander the ever-changing landscape of their harsh primeval world, the elves discover hidden danger, odd creatures…and, to their surprise, other elfin tribes.

Begin the Quest of a lifetime when ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 1 hits bookstores on February 25, 2025, and comic shops on February 26, 2025. This 176-page (6.625 x 10.1875″) hardcover book is now available for pre-order for $29.99. Pre-order today from TFAW, Ama z on, Barnes and Noble or your local bookstore, or visit PRH Comics or Comic Shop Locator for more details and stores near you.

In ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 2:

Humans have discovered the desert haven called Sorrow’s End. Cutter, chief of the Wolfrider tribe of elves, must embark on a new quest–to bolster their meager numbers with new elfin allies. With his trusted companion Skywise, he ventures out once again into a world weirder and more dangerous than anything he has ever known in his young life. Along the way, the adventurous pair tangles with an old adversary long thought gone and forgotten. What is the secret of Cutter’s sword, New Moon? And what eerie creatures inhabit the sinister Forbidden Grove, guarding a mystery that will change Cutter’s life forever?

Keep the Quest alive when ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 2 arrives in bookstores on May 20, 2025, and comic shops on May 21, 2025. This 176-page (6.625 x 10.1875″) hardcover book is now available for pre-order for $29.99. Pre-order today from TFAW, Amazon, Barnes and Noble or your local bookstore, or visit PRH Comics or Comic Shop Locator for more details and stores near you.

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Join the shape-shifting Jink and the rambunctious Rebels as their search leads them across Abode and into the beyond in The Complete Elfquest Volume 8

Posted on August 9, 2024 by Graphic Policy Team

Dark Horse Comics presents The Complete Elfquest Volume Eight: FutureQuest the final volume in The Complete ElfQuest omnibus series, arriving in January 2025. At over 700 pages, this beautiful softcover volume collects ElfQuest’s Stargazer’s Hunt and FutureQuest story arcs, with brand new art and commentary by co-creators Wendy and Richard Pini.

The Pinis are joined by writers John Ostrander, Ben Harkins, and artists David Boller, Dennis Fujitake, Delfin Barral, Sonny Strait, Terry Beatty, Craig Taillefer, Charles Barnett III, Paul Abrams, Kathryn Bolinger, Jerry Braccia, and Jen Marrus, with letterers Chuck Maly, and Nate Piekos.

Cutter’s quest is complete, but now stargazer Skywise and his daughter Jink set out on separate quests of their own to recover something precious that has been lost—or stolen. Their journeys span both space and time, bridging the past and the future of the World of Two Moons, now known as Abode.

Meanwhile the planet’s human inhabitants have entered their own technological age and have come to face the truth: they were never alone on their world. One perplexing mystery remains unsolved—why did the elves of Abode disappear, and where did they go? Jink makes the answer her personal quest, even as she crosses paths with a rowdy group of space-faring misfits, The Rebels, on their own search for answers.

“These characters and stories have been a long time brewing,” confides Richard and Wendy Pini. “And we’re thrilled for them finally to get the top-notch Dark Horse treatment. The number eight has always been special to ElfQuest (the elves count on eight fingers) and this volume completes a very special octad for us. Now readers can follow the elves’ adventures from the distant past right on through the not-so-distant future.

Continuing the 45+ year legacy of ElfQuest, The Complete ElfQuest Volume Eight: FutureQuest, will be available in bookstores on January 14, 2025 and in comic shops on January 15, 2025 for $29.99. Pre-order now from TFAW, Amazon, Barnes and Noble or your local bookstore, or visit PRH Comics or Comic Shop Locator for more details and stores near you.

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ElfQuest animated film is in the works

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Brett

Fox has given ElfQuest a script commitment for an animated film. The one-hour drama is based on the fantasy comic series by Wendy and Richard Pini. The series is coming from Rodney Rothman and Adam Rosenberg‘s Modern Magic. Susan Hurwitz Arneson is penning the adaptation and will be the showrunner and executive producer.

Rothman and Rosenberg will executive produce for Modern Magic along with Arneson, and Wendy and Richard Pini. Bento Box Entertainment is the studio.

ElfQuest is currently published by Dark Horse Comics but began in 1978 where it was published by Warp Graphics. Marvel published it from 1985 to 1988 and DC from 2003 to 2006. Dark Horse has been publishing it since 2013.

The series is about a community of elves and other species who struggle to survive on a primitive Earth-like planet with two moons.

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Dark Horse presents: ElfQuest: Stargazer’s Hunt Complete Edition

Posted on June 16, 2023 by Graphic Policy Team

Return to the world of ElfQuest in ElfQuest: Stargazer’s Hunt Complete Edition from Dark Horse Books! This special hardcover edition of Stargazer’s Hunt compiles both complete volumes of the comic miniseries in one collection, including brand new behind-the-scenes sketches and commentary.

ElfQuest alumnus Sonny Strait returns as this series’ artist and colorist, alongside storytellers Wendy and Richard Pini, with script, layouts, and an all-new cover exclusive to this edition by Wendy Pini. Longtime fans and new readers alike will not want to miss this special offering, released just in time to celebrate ElfQuest’s 10-year-anniversary with Dark Horse Comics!

When ElfQuest: The Final Quest concluded, it ended the hero’s journey of Cutter Kinseeker, chief of the Wolfriders. But that was only the start of a new adventure for Cutter’s “brother in all but blood,” Skywise. Now the stargazer elf, who thought he knew everything about Cutter, discovers how mistaken he was. Skywise sets his sights on the cosmic horizon for answers, sending him on his own epic quest from the elves’ ancestral Star Home through uncharted space and back to the World of Two Moons. His star-spanning quest reveals interstellar majesty and the desolation of ruined worlds, but no answers to the gaps in his memory. Meanwhile Jink, the elf-daughter he left behind, returns to the ancestral home of the Wolfriders in the hope of finding a way to heal her father’s soul.

The ElfQuest Stargazer’s Hunt Complete Edition 208 page hardcover which measures at 6.625 x 10.1875”, will be available in bookstores November 21, 2023 and in comic shops November 22, 2023. It is available for pre-order now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and at your local comic shop and bookstore and will retail for $29.99.

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Support the Hero Initiative with the ElfQuest: The Complete Dark Horse Collection Humble Bundle

Posted on March 23, 2023 by Graphic Policy Team

Discover the saga of Cutter, chief of the elfin tribe of the Wolfriders, and his epic quest across the World of Two Moons in ElfQuest, Wendy and Richard Pini’s long-running fantasy graphic novel series. This collection features every volume of the series published by Dark Horse, including The Complete ElfQuest, The Final Quest, and Stargazer’s Hunt. Celebrate 45 years of ElfQuest, and help support The Hero Initiative with your purchase!

Valued at $156, you can get the entire bundle for just $18.