The Elven Guard

 is an American adventure-fantasy magical girl comic book series, being published by DC Comics since May 16th, 2002.

Synopsis
Teenage girl Penny Curtis learns that she is half-light elf as she has to protect her town from threats both magical and non-magical.

Main

 * Penny Curtis - a tomboyish teenager who learns that she is descended from a Light Elf as she protects her city and recruited two other half elves to help her.
 * Carly Knox - an intelligent and shy teenage girl who descends from a Frost Elf and is recruited to help Penny fight threats.
 * Jessica Morris - an energetic and easily girly teenager who descended from Forest Elves as she helps Penny fight threats.

Supporting

 * Emol - a wise and ancient light elf who has reawakened to help guide Penny, Carly and Jessica to use their newfound abilities.
 * Daniel and Moira Curtis - Penny's friendly and protective parents who wants to make sure she is safe.
 * Sasha Curtis - Penny's popularity-obsessed older sister who, despite that, is still nice towards her.
 * Christopher "Chris" Fanson - an athletic teenager who Penny is in love with as he is very friendly towards her.
 * Tommy Dantes - a goofy teenager who often makes jokes, even at his expense, as Jessica has shown a crush on him.
 * Mr. Todd Derrickson - a surprisingly friendly teacher known for being very friendly towards his students.

Antagonists

 * Lord Mazek - a terrifying and dangerous Dark Elf who leads an army of followers and wants to capture Penny and extract all of the light from her in order to conquer the world.
 * Crysta - a sadistic dark elf summoner who is loyal towards Mazek and would do anything for him.
 * Zander - a Dark Elf working for Mazek who is extremely charismatic as Carly gets somewhat infatuated with him.
 * Xorlk - a sadistic commander of Mazek who wears a special armor and openly shows his obsession with taking down Penny due to seeing her to be his perfect match.

Monsters of the Week

 * Gradush - a dumb but dangerous giant capable of causing massive damage.
 * The Wyvern - a fearsome dragon that can breathe fire that can melt solid steel.
 * The Arachnodestructid - a giant terrifying spider-like monster that can fire a deadly form of webbing.
 * Blizzard Wizard - a strange warlock who can cast magic that can be used to freeze anything.
 * Mistress Hive - a seductive bee-like humanoid who can control humans using miniature bees mixed with hypnotic energy.
 * Stink Bomb - a strange gaseous being who can blow himself up and gives an ugly smell.
 * The Art Crafter - a rainbow colored monster that can turn art alive.
 * Mimic - a shapeshifting monster that can pretend to be anything with ease.

Issues

 * 1) The Journey Begins - A teenage girl known as Penny learns she is a half elf as she recruits two other half elves as they have to deal with a giant sent to find the Light Elf.
 * 2) Teamwork Dreams - Penny, Carly and Jessica have to learn to work together, especially when a dragon comes to destroy them.
 * 3) Scared of Spiders? - Jessica has to overcome her fear of spiders, especially when a spider monster has captured her teammates.
 * 4) Snow in Summer?! - Penny and her friends are ready to celebrate summer, those plans fail when a snow controlling wizard has been summoned by Mazek to completely freeze everything as Penny has to work to bring summer back.
 * 5) Enslaved by the Hive - A hypnotic bee-like woman has been using her bees to control people as Penny and Jessica have to worry when Carly becomes one of them.
 * 6) That Stinks - A smelly gaseous being has been annoying people to get the half-elves' attention as they quickly get annoyed.
 * 7) Wanna Cheer? - Jessica decides to try out for the cheer team. But her attempts are soon cut short when Mazek summons a creature known as a Manticore to destroy the town.
 * 8) Welcome to the Wildside - Jessica attempts to unlock the true nature of her powers as they might come in use against one of Mazek's commanders who is obsessed with taking all of them down.
 * 9) Dark Sasha - Mazek summons a demon to possess Sasha knowing that it can harm Penny mentally as Penny has to fight her own sister.
 * 10) The Eternal Rise of the Phoenix - TBD
 * 11) The Art is Alive - Mazek has a monster made out of art turn various art alive as the Elven Guard must stop it.
 * 12) Who is Who - A shapeshifting monster has infiltrated the Elven Guard as they attempt to figure out who the shapeshifter is.
 * 13) Rise Up - Mazek summons a warrior who is incapable of death as the Elven Guard has to fight someone who refuses to die.
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Physical appearances

 * Penny has short blonde hair, green eyes and wears a white tank top, jean shorts and tennis shoes as a civilian and has short glowing white hair, glowing white eyes, pointy ears and a white catsuit while transformed.
 * Carly has long red hair, blue eyes and wears glasses, a blue blouse, a skirt and high heels as a civilian and has long glowing blue hair, glowing blue eyes, point ears and a blue catsuit while transformed.
 * Jessica has long wavy brown hair, brown eyes and wears pink dress and red high heels as a civilian and has glowing green hair, glowing green eyes, pointy ears and a green catsuit while transformed.
 * Emol has short glowing white hair, glowing white eyes, a glowing white beard, pointy ears and wears a wise looking Yoda-like suit.
 * Mazek has extremely long black hair, black eyes, a black beard and wears armor and armored shoes.
 * Crysta has long glowing black hair, black eyes and wears long black dress.
 * Daniel has combed blonde hair, green eyes and wears a suit and fancy shoes.
 * Moira has long blonde hair, green eyes and wears a black dress and high heels.
 * Sasha has long blonde hair that is in a ponytail, green eyes and wears a pink tank top, a jean skirt and shoes.
 * Chris has short raven hair, brown eyes and wears a green t-shirt, jeans and tennis shoes.

Television adaptions
See (TV series) and Legend of the Elven Guard.

Two animated television adaptions were produced by Warner Bros. Animation so far, the first airing on Cartoon Network from September 15th, 2005 until June 1st, 2011 and the second is expected to premiere on WB Kids on December 15th, 2021.

Both feature the voices of Lara Jill Miller as Penny Curtis, Ashley Johnson as Carly Knox, Tara Strong as Jessica Morris, Mark Hamill as Emol, Jeffrey Combs as Lord Mazek, Rachael MacFarlane as Crysta, Tom Kenny and Vanessa Marshall as Daniel and Moira Curtis, Grey Griffin as Sasha Curtis and Quinton Flynn as Christopher Fanson.