Elfquest: Water birth

The latest page of The Final Quest: Prologue is published online first for the first time here at Boing Boing. First time reader? You're a few issues behind.

• [Matt Harrell]

  Absolutely beautiful.

• [Margherita Tramontano]

  Oh. High. Ones.
  If this girl goes on as she started, she’s going to have an EVENTFUL life, for sure.

• [Ej Doe]

  Very beautifully done. I sure hope that she born with gills though. =P 

• [Guy Grasso]

  Well, babies can ”breathe” underwater sort of, check clips about it on YouTube *nod* …so I have no worries bout this Little Fishy that Smoothly popped out of her Mother, birth didn’t seem painful at all~!!

  Unless Brill been going through Hell prior to Sunstream’s Arrival >.<

  • [Margherita Tramontano]

    Like Leetah said, healthy elven mothers feel only pleasure giving birth, not pain like us “ordinary” humans. How lucky.

• [Sara Jung-Claßen]

  That’s… interesting. And that’s the birth junkie in me speaking. :P

• [David Miz]

  So simple, so glorious, so perfect.  It’s amazing that a “comic book” can fill me with such joy.

• [Sapfo]

  A boy or a girl? What do you think?

• [Kristin Hunt]

  The little girl’s got an awesome start to life. WHEEE! ( The speed of this picture makes me think Brill was  swiming sort of fast (considing the  distance between her and the child, and she’s not turned around yet.

  But YEAh! (I wanna know who this little girl is now). Her name? What color are her eyes? What color is her hair? Does she have a soulname?
  Who who Who!

• [Andreas Ganesha Spring]

  Seeing this, I am reminded of Episode 9 of one of my all-time anime series: “Earth Maiden Arjuna” (“Chikyû shôjo Arjuna”), where Cindy explains to Juna, that normally infants don’t cry when being born naturally… and a beautiful water birth is featured there, too, when we witness Chris being born. That’s one of the episodes, where my vision gets blurred all the time from those tears in my eyes…

• [Maura Scherrer]

  lmao I just imagine the baby going “ping!”

• [capnmarrrrk]

  TORPEDOS AWAY!

  • [Ashen Victor]

    Sound collision!
    http://youtu.be/5ak917meUoo?t=55s 

• [Wyldenay]

  Simply perfect! I could not imagine a more appropriate way for this baby to have been born. They will make lovely parents.

• [Tavie]

  Welcome, baby!

• [Alex]

  I’m sorry but I laughed when I saw this.  Just a touch ridiculous and why is Sunstream so far back?!  They’re lucky some shark didn’t eat the kid as it was waiting to be picked up.

  • [Tavie]

     He’s far back because they’re going FAST and he needs to catch that baby and being far back gives the baby enough time to slow down enough so that when he catches it it isn’t SHOOTING into his hands with the force of a champagne cork being popped directly into your eye.

• [David Miz]

  Folks – quick biology lesson: this is EXACTLY how real life marine mammals such as dolphins give birth.  Elfquest is at its best when the story and art are founded on our best understanding of real-life science and fact.  Today’s page is a perfect example of that.  It has no more to do with “fish poop” and is no more ridiculous than this:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QfuE9AxeR4w

  • [Margherita Tramontano]

     I wonder how the curdon’s cut?…

• [Erika Westberg]

  This is pretty cool. I understand why she didn’t want to be cooped up in some little pool, not able to move and swim! The dolphin video was interesting as well.

• [William Clark]

  This was just beautifully illustrated. Thank you Wendy!