september's coming soon

For today's lesson in how weirdly sensitive I am to how stories do romance: I'd have forgiven it all the suck and weird storytelling choices if Kimo and Mender had switched places, and I'm perfectly serious about it.

But the general lack of quality has put me in the previously unfamiliar dilemma of pirating things readily available in languages I understand. Had this comic been anything else than Elfquest, I'd have dropped it long since. But it is Elfquest and my appreciation of the Pinis' previous work means that I want to do my share to support them. And so I'll probably buy the last Final Quest collection whenever it comes out, while doing something I wouldn't have dreamed of doing three years ago: Looking up the single issues online to cringe.

I just really want to pretend that Elfquest ended with Wild Hunt.

( Obviously spoilery commentary up until issue 22, with reaction gifs )