2018 Spring:

I did a reread of the entire last series for the ending of the main arc of Elfquest (aka Cutter, The Kinseeker's story). I still love it so very much and I love taking part in the community this time while doing it. Finding all the shoutouts to Dreamtime and to previous moments in the series across all the decades: right up to solving mysteries of the future comic connections.

Spoilers Notes -- I am so moved by this whole series, right up to its so VERY fitting ending. I was in tears, but it was absolutely just how it was supposed to be. I felt deeply in respect with the Pini's for living the series to the point it always should have gone to, without changing who all the characters and mythos were at it's (/their) deepest core.

This is the story I've been reading since I was 5 and I have nothing but love for every step of it. ( )

I don't envy the Pinis. When your cast is both immortal and fecund, and the story spans thousands of years and multiple planets, you end up with a massive, massive list of characters. It doesn't help that names change over time, that their relationships are particularly complex (seeing as nearly everyone is pansexual and polyamorous), and that the series has been running for decades. Bringing the entire cast together and resolving dangling plot threads is incredibly difficult. They managed to do it, not gracefully in some cases, but they did it.

Some deaths felt really unnecessary, like Moonshade's. Others felt like that initially, but I came around to them, specifically Cutter's sudden death-by-spider. There were some incredibly sweet moments, and I appreciated that old Two-Edge finally found reciprocated, if really random and sudden, love.

In all, the ending really does follow "the way." ( )