for ElfQuest fans

Do you think ElfQuest ever jumped the shark? If so, when? My opinion based on having read only up to "Hidden Years" #1 (I think it is) is that said piscine was leapt over at about "Cry from Beyond". The story starts to have a quality I recognize from roleplaying campaigns/troupes that have gone on too long with the same characters, in that you have to keep inventing more and more outrageous events and powers to keep things interesting (or maybe not have to, per se, but it becomes more and more difficult to make the subtle work). Perhaps there are even worse things in store for me if I were to read all the rest of the series (not that that stops me from wanting to do it!)?

Also, does anyone know the Wolfrider name for "summer"? Spring is "newgreen" (AFAIK), autumn is "nut-fall" and winter is "white-cold" or "death-sleep" but I haven't seen a reference for an idiosyncratic term for summer that I can recall.

for ElfQuest fans

Do you think ElfQuest ever jumped the shark? If so, when? My opinion based on having read only up to "Hidden Years" #1 (I think it is) is that said piscine was leapt over at about "Cry from Beyond". The story starts to have a quality I recognize from roleplaying campaigns/troupes that have gone on too long with the same characters, in that you have to keep inventing more and more outrageous events and powers to keep things interesting (or maybe not have to, per se, but it becomes more and more difficult to make the subtle work). Perhaps there are even worse things in store for me if I were to read all the rest of the series (not that that stops me from wanting to do it!)?

Also, does anyone know the Wolfrider name for "summer"? Spring is "newgreen" (AFAIK), autumn is "nut-fall" and winter is "white-cold" or "death-sleep" but I haven't seen a reference for an idiosyncratic term for summer that I can recall.

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"4. 2006 Classified Senate Blood and Marrow Drive
There was discussion in favor of holding another blood & marrow drive this year, ..."

Med techs, help me out here. How do you have a "Marrow Drive"? I mean, how does one donate bone marrow without serious surgery, such that they can have an on-campus "drive" for it like a blood drive? Or is it just getting your name in some kind of database along with some other kind of sample that might be used to match you up to someone who needed bone marrow?

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"4. 2006 Classified Senate Blood and Marrow Drive
There was discussion in favor of holding another blood & marrow drive this year, ..."

Med techs, help me out here. How do you have a "Marrow Drive"? I mean, how does one donate bone marrow without serious surgery, such that they can have an on-campus "drive" for it like a blood drive? Or is it just getting your name in some kind of database along with some other kind of sample that might be used to match you up to someone who needed bone marrow?