User blog comment:Jamie/Episode 19 - Nerd Bullies/@comment-1618941-20140915132815

When the guys started talking about comic books made by women, or women not having much reason to get into reading comic books, I immediately started thinking about Elfquest.

The artist is a woman, and her style focuses heavily on facial features, which has the effect of telling a story very much based on character interaction. It's interesting to me to compare her style with the action-heavy human form artwork of her mainstream male counterparts, and has led me to conclude that Elfquest (and its spin-offs) may well have a stronger appeal to a female reader base.

I understand Wendy Pini has dabbled with a superhero comic in the past, and it was a situation that didn't work out. I expect that some level of harsh criticism from fans might have resulted, but that's just speculation on my part.

Her work is good though - something of a wildly different flavour to the endless supply of superhero comics. Marvel did a reprint of the original series under the Epic banner, and Efquest was actually the title that got me into comic books in the first place.