This past week I decided to reach into my bookself and pull out a series I have not look at or thought about until now. I was a big time comice book collector some years ago and when I found a series I like I hunted and shopped until I found as many as I could of the series...be it books or the comics themselves.
And this week I pulled out every "Poison Elves" comic and book to see what I had, then I hit the internet to see what I didn't have. Upon scouting around and found something out...The artist had passed away.
Drew Hayes had a unique way of drawing. He was drawing Goth back before Goth was cool. I'm not saying I like Goth...but I am saying I liked this guy's art and style. He was a story teller like none other I had seen. His stories contained not only his art, but pages of story line. He used panels as well as full pages worth of dialogue (unheard of at the time). He was self published by Mulehide Comics until Sirius Comics picked up the series. It was first call "I, Luseipher" then later became "Poison Elves".
He placed his story around a central character...Luseiphur. An elf with a nasty sword and gun to boot. He was a short, black haired bitter little guy about 5'5" (I'm guessing). His killing rampages were intrupted by his ex-wife, bestfriend, and an imp that lived in his head. Luse was a thief and an assassin for hire. He smoked to much and drank even more. Yup...he was a barrel full of laughs.
Drew Hayes passed away last month, March 21. He was only 37 years old.
Luseiphur... "Say goodnight to the sandman."
