Elfquest Graphic Novel 3: Captives of Blue Mountain

If you are new to the world of elfquest this is the third book in the elfquest line.Before it comes the books Fire and Flight(book #1)and the Forbbiden Grove(book #2). In this book, you meet the Gliders, a group of elves that claims to be the High Ones. You also meet the dark and evil Winnowill, a healer but one which uses her powers for hurting rather then healing.Lastly you learn the secret of the Wolfriders... I won't give away the story but I do reccomend you buy this book for its art,story and feeling...

I first read this when I was nine, and a cousin was visiting and had ElfQuest Book 3. It was a brother and sister and they said that it was one of the few things they both liked, just as good for boys and for girls. I read the first 15 pages or so, and I was hooked. It was my first literary obsession--and I have to say I still take all the first 4 out sometimes (though I think that after that the quality of the series went down). Great story, complex with no easy answers or simple good and evil, and female elves get good play. What more could you ask for? And if you like Strongbow this is bar none the best ElfQuest book.

ElfQuest is a wounderful series for anyone whom reads it. It is full of some of the personal expierences from Wendy and Richard Pini's own life, it contains moral lessons, it has incredible insight, a dynamic story and georgeous artwork, do not pass this book up! IT ROCKS!!!

This is the third book out of four collections of the original quest which are, in my opinion, works of genius!! The first book is Fire and Flight, the second - The Forbidden Grove, and the last (In my opinion, as the stuff that follows doesn't really seem like Elfquest to me) is the Quest's End. I have been reading those same four books over and over again for 15 years and I feel that they have enriched my life.

The present "Reader's Collection" version of the EQ series presents the first eight books (originally 37 issues) in their original black-and-white format. Despite the absence of color, this edition is valuable for its wealth of visual detail - some of which was unfortunately lost when Marvel Comics reissued the series (up to no. 20) in colorized form - blunt and unsubtle color, to say truth. (Beg, borrow or steal the Donning color versions from the mid-80s!) The point has been made repeatedly, of course, but rereading the original 20 issues reminds one, again, of the incredible amount of thought that went into the creation of the story - as LITERATURE as well as art. For an author to create not one but 17 protagonists - whose cares, fears and hopes virtually become our own - is not often acheived even in ordinary literature... certainly never in the comic industry! For all the magic-users, trolls, and insectoids featured in the series, it is the emotional realism - the use of the elfin to mirror the human - that has, and always will, make Elfquest what it is.