Hey, Elfquest Fans!

[solarbird]

Of course Rayek's gonna be a Tory:

And That's Only Because He Moved To The Left

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[annathepiper]

.oO (Not for lack of persuasion on my part, I assure you...)

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

yah, but Kahvi is probably Bloc Quebecois.... from St-Marie de Joutel

[solarbird]

Lord Voll is Bloc, but not party leader. That'd be Winnowill. Kahvi is more Alaskan Independence Party without the fundamentalism. Well, that kind of fundamentalism. Muah.

[janne.livejournal.com]

I was sort of thinking Kahvi would be Palin without the lipstick... A reasonable likeness for a human, anyhow :D

[devichan.livejournal.com]

...I have no words. Made of win.

[foibos.livejournal.com]

Ah, Rayek. I knew him --

All those years ago, when the colorized books started to come out. There I was, trying in vain to wrap my little Asperger mind around the mystifications of everyday life, when I stumbled upon Book 1. The intro, with the Elves' arrival to the WoTM: it was like for the first time in my life, I read something that made sense, that I could identify with.

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[solarbird]

Plus? So hott.

[foibos.livejournal.com]

Speaking of hott (though maybe in another sense), I have a handy EQ-to-Kinsey Scale converter for males: K = N - 1, where N is the number of characters from the set [Cutter, Rayek, Redlance, Scouter, Skywise, Strongbow, Dart (adult)] that you find hot, and K is your Kinsey score, with the additional -1 meaning asexual.

I have a truly wonderful proof of this, but I really have to go eat lunch now before taking my girl to her guitar lesson.

[solarbird]

So this is, what, for guys? Because I like all of 'em. Okay, well, not Redlance as much. But I wouldn't kick him out of the furs, either.

[foibos.livejournal.com]

Then I don't know what to tell you.




So you mean you're not tempted to play with his braids for even a little bit? But yeah, maybe he's nice rather than hot.

[solarbird]

Oh, it's all just personal taste. But like I said, I'd do him. ^_^

[westrider.livejournal.com]

OK, that? Just made my day. I need to re-read those again.

i just love the google hits

[solarbird]

Rayek became President of the Delta-Richmond East Conservative Riding Association and his party affiliations with that riding go back to at least 2006, when he was a director on the board and was the Richmond Electoral district Association (EDA) liaison.

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Rayek will have an uphill battle ahead of him, as Vancouver-Kingsway has traditionally been a Liberal riding since 1997. Indeed, they voted Liberal in the last election. It just so happened that Emerson changed parties.

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Rayek would support significant tax breaks for working families.

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I can empathize with the root problem - after all those pesky political strata councils can be as tricky to navigate as a House of Commons ethics committee. Yet Rayek's public response might have been more measured, or for a seemingly ambitious young politico, perhaps better held in check.

Re: i just love the google hits

[westrider.livejournal.com]

OK, laughing out loud at those :D

Re: i just love the google hits

[janne.livejournal.com]

Yegods, if I were canadian I'd be voting conservative just for that :D

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Good one. Of course you know my Elfquest credentials. Somewhere around here I may even have a photo of me dressed as Skywise, which makes for the tallest Wolfrider (I'm 6'3") you'll ever see. You were much closer to the correct height!

I can point to the single page that reeled me in, and drew me down a dark path that had at the end of it chairing a Worldcon. :) To this day, I have to be careful not to crack open any of my old EQ collections, lest I have a relapse of Elfquest Fanboy Syndrome. Not that I'd want to undo the initial infection, you understand...

[solarbird]

Really. Which page?

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

My collections are actually in storage, but it's one of the first few pages of the second EQ collection, which means issue 6 of the original run. It's Cutter coming back to the village and the children greeting him. Something about the art and the dialog dug claws into me, and I had to buy the book, and that led to buying everything else.

I was late to the game with the comic (around issue 17, as I recall), but made up for it with fervor. Heck, I went to my first Worldcon -- 1984, Anaheim -- mainly because of the "End of the Quest" party there. And that led to a lot of other things.

Edit: Oho, I didn't realize they were publishing the original saga online. It's this page (http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ06/DisplayOQ06.html?page=4).

[foibos.livejournal.com]

I was already hooked by the time I read this, but this sequence is one of my favorites too.

I hadn't realized until right now how much my real-life twin son and daughter resemble Suntop and Ember. They're 9½ years old now, so they're still OK with me pulling them into my lap, wrapping my arms around them and taking in their scent. Of course, if I cuddle one of them, the other is likely to pounce-glomp me from behind.

this page

[solarbird]

awwwwwwwwwwww. ^_^

Re: this page

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

I am such a sentimental sap sometimes. :)

[janne.livejournal.com]

Ooh, me too! The first EQ I ever read was the second donning-starblaze, and I think this was just about the first page in it? Totally sold from that page on. <3

[mhaolain.livejournal.com]

Oh my ghod, Elfquest refs with playtime. Wow, I feel funny. Just put me in with the Petalwing contingent. Petalwing happy, 'cause all bigthings happy now. :]