Final Quest

[arethinn]

So, has anyone out there been reading The Final Quest? I don't really have a specific topic I wanted to discuss, just trying to breathe a little life in here. (I've been enjoying swan_tower's re-read posts that are the most recent thing.)

(I looked at the tags but I don't know if any of them fit. This isn't really "meta", I don't think.)

Comments

[dorinda]

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.

[caramarie]

I'm basically with you ... I've been buying it as it comes out, except I haven't actually read what I've bought in a while. I feel like the storytelling has been reduced to a plot summary, and I haven't been able to engage with it :-/

[dorinda]

I think "the storytelling has been reduced to a plot summary" is a really accurate way to put it--that must be why, like anke comments below, it feels like there's too much Story crammed in. It just keeps telling us, telling us, telling us, summarizing/describing, instead of slowing down and showing us.

[arethinn]

Hmm. I wouldn't have thought to say this, but I think you're right. It does seem paced awfully fast, with a lot of epic things happening that each should have been expanded some. I mean, there's what, two issues to go? It's going to feel a pretty rushed ending, I fear.