EQ Readthrough: Issue 15, The Quest Usurped!

[elf]

Issue 15: The Quest Usurped!
Questions for this issue:

• What does Voll's deception say of how he thinks of the Wolfriders?
• Could or should the other Wolfriders done something other than follow?
• What differences did you notice between these trolls and Greymung's subjects?

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]

This was the issue where I stopped liking Lord Voll, when I was reading it for the first time. And now, re-reading it again my feelings are pretty much the same.

This "I know what's best for you and you will see that I am right and will be thankful, regardless of what I've done to you to achieve my goal" attitude makes me furious! I hate it in RL and it's a pet peeve of mine in (fan)fiction, too.

I wrote meta, or rather, ranted about this in my personal journal a while ago, but encountering it here again fans my anger anew.


But still, there are some gorgeous panels in this issue. Page three - Voll's memories of him and Winnowill set before a silhouette of his profile - for example. I loved that one a lot, so much so that I used it in something you could consider EQ fanart, I suppose.

[absque_setentia]

Funny thing, it has been so long since I last read these issues that I was surprised at first to find myself liking Lord Voll, because I remembered him as very disagreeable. Then I read this issue and thought, "Oh, that explains it!"

I do still feel sorry for him, though, but then I have had the fortune not to run into too many people like him yet.

The trick of using the silhouette of a character as a backdrop for a flashback is one I always liked, too. Wendy used it a few more times IIRC and it looks very neat.

[dancing_serpent]

I kind of feel sorry for him, too, but still. I seem to run into people trying to tell/force someone else into things they think "are best for them" all the time, both in RL and in (fan)fiction.

Yes, she does use it several times and I always liked it. But that panel with Lord Voll is one of my favourites.