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 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.

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.
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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.