OQ Readthrough: Issue 1, Fire and Flight

[elf]

LINK: Issue 1: Fire and Flight
Questions for this issue:

• What did you most notice about the humans?
• How do the trolls compare to cave-dwellers in other fandoms?
• What do you think of elf/troll relations? (Not those relations, you pervs; what do you think of their social arrangements?)

Main OQR post with prompt questions
Note: These aren't mandatory questions; they're meta prompts. If you don't care for any of them, or want to tangent from them to some other topic, that's fine too.

Comments

[dancing_serpent]

Also, the characters weren't as polished as later
Yes, that's something I noticed, too. At the beginning Wendy seemed unsure about proportions and mimic. We know that she found and developed her style pretty quickly, though.
As someone who practically devours tons of comics and mangas the progress in an artist's skills is something I like watching.

For a wolfrider Cutter is still young and I always guessed that he's still too much influenced by Bearclaw's way on how to lead a tribe. I didn't really agree with most of Bearclaw's views, but maybe I'm drawing on faulty or confused memory here. I'll try keeping an eye on that during the read-through.

[elf]

Cutter's influence by Bearclaw doesn't explain why the men get mostly weapon or activity names, and the women get mostly passive "nature" names.

This is toned down later, and I like to think that maybe the Wolfriders have been forced into the position of "women care for the family, especially the kids," by their bare-survival lifestyle. (I know what I'd like to think is probably not what influenced the naming choices.)

At some point, I want to put together a full list of names of all the characters. But that's a long-term complex project. There's a partial list at Wikipedia, covering the main characters, but I'd like to scrounge through all the issues & novels (we'll pretend I can find a copy of the novels) for character names, and see what patterns show up.

[dancing_serpent]

Yes, we kind of start into the series like that. But the names of the wolfriders are changing all the time depending on the circumstances, don't they? I remember Redlance got his name awarded after saving Bearclaw - before that I think he had a less martially sounding name. Something simply after the colour of his hair? I don't remember all that well. Sunstream became Suntop, and One-Eye wasn't always One-Eye, too.

maybe the Wolfriders have been forced into the position of "women care for the family, especially the kids," by their bare-survival lifestyle.
That makes kind of sense to me, though. *g*