Tue 25 Mar 2008
I’ve twittered about this, but I feel it’s worth a post of its own as well: Warp Graphics is making the entire run of ElfQuest available for free on the web. As a long-time ElfQuest fan, this is the kind of news that makes me go “squeee!” My collection has significant holes in it, so I’m really looking forward to seing what I’ve missed.
I suppose this is another interesting development in the business of webcomics, what with another established publisher moving its stuff online, interesting to some, anyway. It’s also clearly a marketing strategy to drum up interest for future publications. It’s already working. After reading what is up there now, I ran through my whole collection again over Easter, and today I went out and bought “the Discovery”, so good thinking, Warp, I guess.
March 22nd, 2008 at 13:30
No, you will not get around to the typing before you tire of it.
And some of us have actually BOUGHT ElfQuest. Hrmph.
March 22nd, 2008 at 17:58
Yes. Me included. I have 25 ElfQuest books. They do not, however, include everything ever published, and are in fact missing several stories which will be made available through this, like the continuation of the Jink and Rebels storylines.
March 23rd, 2008 at 13:07
I have 26! The pocket-sized reprints in Norwegian they usually did, but still.
March 23rd, 2008 at 14:56
Oh, if they count, I have 27.
March 23rd, 2008 at 20:45
They kinda have to count, because I don’t buy Danish stuff, and the old Norwegian colour-translations have been out of print for a looong while. (The English ones are out of the question because I’d have to order them, Outland doesn’t have them in the shelves, and quite frankly, it’s simply not anywhere near good enough to come to the front of the stuff I’d like to buy when the entirety of Internet Buyage is my oyster)
March 24th, 2008 at 20:35
“it’s simply not anywhere near good enough to come to the front of the stuff I’d like to buy when the entirety of Internet Buyage is my oyster”
Well, lucky that they’re being made available for free, then!
March 24th, 2008 at 22:14
So it would seem. ^^