Heads up, Elfquest fans

Why the hell didn't I know about Wendy Pini's new project Masque of the Red Death before?!

spazzkat found out about this tonight when he happened to stumble across the first print volume of the collector's edition, and I was "wait what new Wendy Pini WHERE?" So I looked it up online and discovered that it's actually an ongoing web comic. If you go to the site, you can go through it all panel by panel, or even let it play as a sort of very slow animation. The story summary is here. Chapters 1-4 are up and Chapter 5 is in progress; all of the major players have been introduced and things seem about to go splody very soon.

Style-wise, the art's akin to the more recent Elfquest releases since Wendy's been doing things more digitally lately; this means sadly that it's not nearly as complex as early Elfquest. But it's still obviously Wendy art, and it is rather pretty, and fairly Elfquest-y; I keep doing double takes that the characters aren't actually elves, especially given that most of them are built like Gliders.

I am massively amused that one of the two lead characters is a dead ringer for Strongbow, except for having too many fingers and the wrong shape of ears. The innocent young lad that's just shown up, too, looks suspiciously Cutter-like. The only way this could amuse me any more is if the other male lead looked like Rayek. ;D (Especially given that this is a "mature content" comic; unlike with Elfquest, there's on-camera sex.)

So yeah, this is fun; Elfquest fans on my Friends list, you might consider checking it out.