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Elfquest
Elfquest Reader's Collection: Worldpool
Book by Wendy Pini, Richard Pini, Bill Neville, Brandon McKinney, Barry Blair, Kim Yale, Pam Fremon, Carla Speed McNeil
192 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2000
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Wendy Pini
614 books391 followersWendy Pini is one-half of a husband and wife team with Richard Pini that created, most notably, the Elfquest series.
Wendy was born in California and adopted into the Fletcher Family in Santa Clara County. Early on, she developed as an artist and was the illustrator of her high school year book. She submitted samples of her artwork to Marvel Comics at 17 that were rejected.
Pini attended Pitzer College and received her B.A. in the Arts and joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society.
In 1972, she married Richard Pini and began illustrating science fiction magazines, including Galaxy, Galileo, and Worlds of If. In 1977, Richard and Wendy established a publishing company called Warp Graphics to publish their first Elfquest comic. Elfquest was self-published for 25 years and in 2003, licensed to DC Comics. The comic series has won several awards, including the Ed Aprill Award for Best Independent Comic, two Alley Awards, the Fantasy Festival Comic Book Awards for Best Alternative Comic, and the Golden Pen Award.
Wendy has illustrated other works, including Jonny Quest in 1986, Law and Chaos in 1987, and in 1989, two graphic novels of Beauty and the Beast. Recently in 2007, she completed a graphic novel entitled The Masque of Red Death.
Wendy has received several awards over the last four decades, including the San Diego Comic Convention Inkpot Award, the New York State Jaycees Distinguished Service Award, the Balrog Award for Best Artist, and was inducted into the Friends of Lulu Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame in 2002.
Wendy and her husband currently reside in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Wendy was born in California and adopted into the Fletcher Family in Santa Clara County. Early on, she developed as an artist and was the illustrator of her high school year book. She submitted samples of her artwork to Marvel Comics at 17 that were rejected.
Pini attended Pitzer College and received her B.A. in the Arts and joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society.
In 1972, she married Richard Pini and began illustrating science fiction magazines, including Galaxy, Galileo, and Worlds of If. In 1977, Richard and Wendy established a publishing company called Warp Graphics to publish their first Elfquest comic. Elfquest was self-published for 25 years and in 2003, licensed to DC Comics. The comic series has won several awards, including the Ed Aprill Award for Best Independent Comic, two Alley Awards, the Fantasy Festival Comic Book Awards for Best Alternative Comic, and the Golden Pen Award.
Wendy has illustrated other works, including Jonny Quest in 1986, Law and Chaos in 1987, and in 1989, two graphic novels of Beauty and the Beast. Recently in 2007, she completed a graphic novel entitled The Masque of Red Death.
Wendy has received several awards over the last four decades, including the San Diego Comic Convention Inkpot Award, the New York State Jaycees Distinguished Service Award, the Balrog Award for Best Artist, and was inducted into the Friends of Lulu Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame in 2002.
Wendy and her husband currently reside in Poughkeepsie, New York.
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October 1, 2025
Read online at ElfQuest.com for my Great ElfQuest Read of 2025.
This collects a bunch of random "what-if" ElfQuest stories. They range from some ridiculous parody stories of Star Wars (etc.) To the King's Cross story, which has an alternate universe Cutter who is half elf, half human and working for the Djun. I *detest* the parody stories and could barely stand to even skim through them, but the King's Cross one was.... okay. At least the art was decent.
This collects a bunch of random "what-if" ElfQuest stories. They range from some ridiculous parody stories of Star Wars (etc.) To the King's Cross story, which has an alternate universe Cutter who is half elf, half human and working for the Djun. I *detest* the parody stories and could barely stand to even skim through them, but the King's Cross one was.... okay. At least the art was decent.
July 24, 2014
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Worldpool is a collection of 'what if' or alternate stories. And they are all done by different artists. One imagines Elfquest as a Smurfs type of scenario and another one saw Winnowill drawn like Jessica Rabbit. Yet another sees an Indiana Jones type of art and storyline with a 'trick' ending that could be seen yards away and made the entire story kind of pointless.
As a result, this book can be hard to get into, especially if you love the canon a lot. I wouldn't say the artwork by the various artists was bad - but it wasn't an interesting or intriguing new take on the Elfquest world either. Do you want to see the Elfquest elves as smurfs with Winnowill running around crazily and channeling Jerry Lewis antics?
The last story is very Pini - reimagining the storyline if Cutter had been born from a human mother paired with Bearclaw and the elves enslaved by the Djunn. It wasn't bad but it also lacked a lot of the pathos and emotion of the series as well.
As much as I love Elfquest, this is not a book in the series that I can recommend.
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