Let me say first that I hope others are enjoying it--I don't want to rain on anyone's parade. But I found most of the parts I've read unfortunately unappealing.
The digital art style Wendy uses now looks so strangely weightless to me a lot of the time, so non-sensory, which I find a terrible contrast with how organic her pencil work used to be. Characters sometimes just seem to float in a thin plane in front of a flat digital background. The characters' expressions, too, often seem vague and unformed--so unlike earlier work where the tiniest changes could make their faces and emotions look so nuanced, and again, organic.
There's a comm somewhere--not on Dreamwidth, I think it's a bbs-type forum someplace? I could poke around--where people have specifically pointed to spots in which pieces of the Final Quest art are literally copy/pasted from earlier FQ issues. That's all just too depressing for me.
So, I've mostly just drifted away, to save myself the grief. But I have been keeping a now-and-then ear out to hear plot developments. None of them grabbed me, except perhaps for a particular lifemating. There's a big recent plot point which apparently the Pinis find to be a super-clever twist-a-roonie that I find actively eyerolling.
...anyway, I am sorry to be negative, and of course opinions vary, but I am personally not a fan of FQ. Sounds like lots of people in the Facebook Elfquest group are really enjoying it, though, including the parts I dislike most.
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The digital art style Wendy uses now looks so strangely weightless to me a lot of the time, so non-sensory, which I find a terrible contrast with how organic her pencil work used to be. Characters sometimes just seem to float in a thin plane in front of a flat digital background. The characters' expressions, too, often seem vague and unformed--so unlike earlier work where the tiniest changes could make their faces and emotions look so nuanced, and again, organic.
There's a comm somewhere--not on Dreamwidth, I think it's a bbs-type forum someplace? I could poke around--where people have specifically pointed to spots in which pieces of the Final Quest art are literally copy/pasted from earlier FQ issues. That's all just too depressing for me.
So, I've mostly just drifted away, to save myself the grief. But I have been keeping a now-and-then ear out to hear plot developments. None of them grabbed me, except perhaps for a particular lifemating. There's a big recent plot point which apparently the Pinis find to be a super-clever twist-a-roonie that I find actively eyerolling.
...anyway, I am sorry to be negative, and of course opinions vary, but I am personally not a fan of FQ. Sounds like lots of people in the Facebook Elfquest group are really enjoying it, though, including the parts I dislike most.