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The Epic Legends of the Hierarchs comic book
A comic series written by Annonymous Miranda and published by Realmworlds Publishing, the ELotH (no "The Elemenstor Saga") comic was a 57-or-so issue comics (there was some confusion over the numbering of certain comics) chronicling the adventures of the Air Elemenstor Horizon, the Extremely Elf and Barber-surgeon I'den, the Lifegiver Man-raised-by-Quilp Crisis, and their semi-leader, the enigmatic and prematurely gray Twilight. Later issues added the former foe Deldon to their ranks.
Inception
The beginnings of the comic were quite simple: Realmsworld wanted an Elemenstor comic series, and Annonymous Miranda took up the mantle of writing the series. However, due to awkward juggling of budget, the series lacked an actual artist for several issues, leaving Annonymous to do the art by herself.
Reaction
The comics were a reasonable success, even with their early artistic limitations, and have been collected in several Graphic Novels. In the light of his all-consuming neutrality (and occasional outright hostility) towards most ELOTH:TES comic spinoffs, Tycho Brahe has been immensely generous with his granting slight, damning praise to the comic*.
Known Issues
Below is a list of many of the issues of the ELotH comic book.
1: Of the Dark between Pears
2: Into Skeins
3: Over there be giants
4: Roundabout Dragons
5: Dark Arpeggios
6: Dawn of Deldon
7: Deldon Afternoon
8: Deldon Cut Short
9: Grief Happening
First of three non-Annonymous-artists, Yoshi Imano, to work on the series is hired
10: Terrordox Paradox
11: Gibbinous Temporality
Issues #12 through #17- Forgottenness Saga
12: Vox Silentium
13: Moving Picture Scrolls
14: Lair'd and Ladies
15: Charnel Forge
16: Hell Wyrmed Over - First artist suffers a stroke after finishing the illustration of the Charnel Wyrm
17: Flesh Falls Away
18: Extremely Elven Envy
Issues #19 through #21- The Twilight's Garden Trilogy
19: In the Shadow of Dragons - New artist, Scotch Mcleod is hired
20: A Meal of Ash
21: Sorrow's Footsoldier
22: Off to the Hikinkis
Also 22: Off to Hijinkis
23: Furry People Attack -Scotch Mcleod fired for bad timing
24: Blue Gray Twilight
25: Paladin Pals
26: Joyous Quilpay, Doctor
27: Vampyre Puppy Pyre
Issues #28 through #30- The Winter into Spring Saga
28: A Costly Mistake
29: A Brewer, a Beggar, and a Barmaid
30: Into the Air - double size issue
31: Popsicle Girl -New artist, Shuchisen Chorizo, hired, subsequently fired, and shunned
Issues #32 through #37- The Ending of Times Sextuplet
32: The Fog of War
33: The Journey of a Thousand Miles
34: True Horizons
35: Choxo Town at Last!
36: Together Forever
37: A Parting of Ways
Cross-overs
Cross-overs illustrated by second artist, Scotch Mcleod
1: Crisis Dies at the End
2: Crisis Versus the Volcano
3: Crisis Doesn't Go to the Beach
4: Red Hot Trespasser on I'den Action
The Seemed Like a Good Idea Trilogy
5: The Jabberwocky Incident, guest-written by Michael Crichton
6: In Which We Explore Masculine Angst, guest-written by Anne Rice
7: Versus Bloodfeast Islandman, guest-written by "Violence" Dufresne
8: War of the War of the Worlds
9: Threads
10: Tetromino Rain
11: Know No Limit
12: Safety Not Guaranteed
13: Vs. ElamenSTAR Shuffle
14: Scourge Britanica
15: Crisis and Dino Crisis
16: Cavalcade of Whores, Sin City crossover guest-written by Frank Miller.
17: Bartman in Battal by Matt Groening
18: Elemenstors Assemble
19: Crisis and Pikachu's Dangerous Day
20: Sun of War and Moon of Doom
Critical Reaction
- *"Oh yes. The ELotH comic. It is rather proficient, for something produced for so inferior a medium." -Tycho Brahe
Fanart:
By Rhok:
Discussion:
There are at least 37 actual issues and more if you count one shots and cross-overs. In fact, if you count cross-overs, there's almost 57. ~Jake |
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