A new hardcover set of the ElfQuest comics is set to be released in 2025 by Dark Horse Comics.
One of the most beloved fantasy series in comic book history is setting out to reach new fans of epic fantasy with a stunning new hardcover volume collection. ElfQuest: The Original Quest will be available for new fans and long-time readers alike to experience with a four-book series showcasing the entire Original Quest, now in full color for the first time at Dark Horse. ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 1 will arrive in bookstores on February 25, 2025 and Book 2 on May 20, 2025.
Creators Wendy and Richard Pini had this to say about the new hardcover volume set:
“We envy everyone who is discovering—or rediscovering—ElfQuest in this gorgeous new full-color Dark Horse incarnation for the first time. ElfQuest is classic yet refreshingly surprising in the way it tosses traditional fantasy clichés out on their pointed ears. The quest of the title—a search for identity, for home, for family—though decades in the telling—is today more contemporary, relevant…and needed…than ever. From forest to mountain, from desert to frozen waste, you’re in for one hell of a howling good thrill-ride.”
A New York Times Best Seller, ElfQuest tells the adventures of elfin chief Cutter and the Wolfriders – a tribe of feral, forest-dwelling elves allied with wolves – as they seek to find their true place in a dangerous world. It’s a story about inclusiveness, self-discovery, finding community and overcoming the forces of bigotry and hate—all wrapped in a visually stunning high-fantasy adventure. Wendy Pini’s artwork blends eastern and western artistic conventions into a new and unique style. ElfQuest has been called “the first American manga.”
In ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 1:
Chief Cutter and the Wolfriders are driven from their forest home by fearful humans bent on their destruction. As they wander the ever-changing landscape of their harsh primeval world, the elves discover hidden danger, odd creatures…and, to their surprise, other elfin tribes.
In ElfQuest: The Original Quest Book 2:
Humans have discovered the desert haven called Sorrow’s End. Cutter, chief of the Wolfrider tribe of elves, must embark on a new quest–to bolster their meager numbers with new elfin allies. With his trusted companion Skywise, he ventures out once again into a world weirder and more dangerous than anything he has ever known in his young life. Along the way, the adventurous pair tangles with an old adversary long thought gone and forgotten. What is the secret of Cutter’s sword, New Moon? And what eerie creatures inhabit the sinister Forbidden Grove, guarding a mystery that will change Cutter’s life forever?
Will you be picking up ElfQuest: The Original Quest when it releases next year?
