EQ Readthrough: Issue 3, The Challenge

[elf]

LINK: Issue 3: The Challenge
Questions for this issue:

• What do you think of the Sun Villagers?
• How do you think the challenge wand came about?
• Did you think the challenges were fair, and fairly won?

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

[adalger]

How do you think the challenge wand came about?

I could see a scene like this happening in Potterverse:

===

"Really, Snivellus? You think it's all about magic?" James' voice came low, menacing, the same as the fire behind his eyes. "I'll show you how much magic has to do with it."

He hurled his wand at the ground, point down as if playing mumbledypegs, so it stuck three inches into the soft soil. "I'm about to do three things, Snape. I'm going to prove to you I'm stronger than you by thrashing you right here and now. I'm going to prove I'm smarter by making you take the blame for it. Then I'm going to show you I'm not a coward like you by speaking up and telling the truth about all this."

===

If I had canon for "way back when elves used wands for magic," or even for "way back when elves used ritual knives for spiritual purposes," I'd imagine it much the same way.

On an unrelated note, I'm starting to suspect the reason I loved these books so much as a teenager was because of all those boobs.

[anke]

I know what I like about Elfquest is that, while it has lots of pretty, scantily clad women, that's true of the men as well.

If it has to be eyecandy, at least it can be equal-opportunity eyecandy. ;)

[blnchflr]

I know what I like about Elfquest is that, while it has lots of pretty, scantily clad women, that's true of the men as well.
Particularly in this issue I found that while the women's bodies are idealized and sexed up and will give female readers inferiority complexes, hell, so are the men's and must make male readers feel crappy about their flabby abdomens compared to Cutter's :oD