ElfQuest: The Original Quest: Book 2--Forbidden Grove

Part of ElfQuest

Illustrated by Wendy Pini
$29.99 US
Dark Horse Comics | Dark Horse Books
12 per carton
On sale May 20, 2025 | 9781506748481
Sales rights: World
The original ElfQuest saga continues! Wolfriders Cutter and Skywise leave Sorrow’s End in search of other elves in this classic fantasy epic—in full color for the first time from Dark Horse Comics!

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 tangle 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?

Collects ElfQuest: The Original Quest #6–#10.
"The comic is utterly addictive."—NPR
 
"One of the most important works in American fantasy."—American Library Association
 
"ElfQuest redefined graphic novel storytelling on an epic scale."—Barnes and Noble
 
"One of the most beautifully crafted, well thought out comic book fantasy epics of all time."—CBR
 
"Wendy and Richard [Pini] created and sustained one of the most successful independent comics of all time."—Rodney Rothman, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
 
"[ElfQuest] is particularly important because of its key role in the establishment of a highly visible phase of alternative, independent comic books and also its creative direction by a female artist."—Karen Green, Curator for Comics and Cartoons, Columbia University

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The original ElfQuest saga continues! Wolfriders Cutter and Skywise leave Sorrow’s End in search of other elves in this classic fantasy epic—in full color for the first time from Dark Horse Comics!

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 tangle 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?

Collects ElfQuest: The Original Quest #6–#10.

Praise

"The comic is utterly addictive."—NPR
 
"One of the most important works in American fantasy."—American Library Association
 
"ElfQuest redefined graphic novel storytelling on an epic scale."—Barnes and Noble
 
"One of the most beautifully crafted, well thought out comic book fantasy epics of all time."—CBR
 
"Wendy and Richard [Pini] created and sustained one of the most successful independent comics of all time."—Rodney Rothman, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
 
"[ElfQuest] is particularly important because of its key role in the establishment of a highly visible phase of alternative, independent comic books and also its creative direction by a female artist."—Karen Green, Curator for Comics and Cartoons, Columbia University