Home > Letters to CR Jill Friedman on Elfquest's Potentially Disappearing Comic Shop Audience and DC's Format Choices posted March 8, 2008
Oh man, the DC reprints were a nightmare.
I was working at Forbidden Planet when the manga-sized collections came out, and I was very excited about them, even if they *were* in black and white. I loved the stories, and was excited to see them reprinted in whatever form was available. When I got home and read Volume One, I was horrified--they'd chopped off the third act of the story, presumably to be continued in the next volume!
I don't recall exactly where the story ended -- either during or directly after the Zwoot hunt. The tragedy of that editing choice is that you lose the climactic moment of the story -- when Leetah seeks out Cutter and speaks his soul name for the first time. To cut that off and put it at the head of the next volume seriously mucks with the flow of the story.
That said, the archives are gorgeous, and I adore the recoloring. I received them as gifts, and I agree, I may not have been willing to pay $50 for them.
