Windblade #1 (an Elflord comic) Nightwynd, Jul 1982, b&w.
R Windblade #1 cover Windblade has been wandering for nine years. Tamir Moonstar awakened his gift and apparently Windblade must have killed Condor. He feels the code of honor of Greenhaven doesn't work in the boonies. Some things weren't quite fair. But he, he's alive...he is WINDBLADE. He finds a wagon train of dead elves, blaming the Reivers for killing them, mostly half naked elves but with some sort of coverings and upper and lower garb. Windblade finds a cat woman (or wolf woman?) burying a loin cloth wearing bodyññher mate perhapsññwith a tomahawk in his arms. Windblade helps her. In the background appear to be cities like modern buildings (?). The two leave together on Windblade's horse. They were killed because they were different.
DRAGONSBREATH: A scorpion is spat on. Windblade and the girl cat ask two old elves where they can find rooms in an inn. The old chubby man tells Windblade there are no rooms for the likes of him, a cat lover. Windblade tells him he will just have to kill him and take his beds. The man lets them stay, laughing. Windblade says, "Neighborly of you." The two go to the bar and hotel. There men, soldiers are bargaining for the pelts of the scalps of cat people. Windblade comes in and is asked by an older elf if he will sell the cat girl. Windblade pulls a gun on the elf when he calls him a son of a bitch and moves to grab him. The two take a bottle and leave, not wanting trouble. Three others, younger it would seem, follow him out. Windblade gives the girl his gun and tells her to get on her horse. He slices the upper arm off a curly haired gun holder, puts his bloody sword in the ground and tosses two stars into the foreheads of the other two elves. The one with his arm cut off calls for his father, who is a warrior. They prepare to follow Windblade and the girl who are on a horse, with a headstart. An arrow, the next day, scares their horse and they fall off. Windblade shoots an arrow into the chest of one, never has the girl seen such a shot. They ride on. Those chasing them are Reivers. Later, Windblade hides in the Box Canyon. Soon they are in the Valley of Dragon's Breath. They find bones of elves or men. As the others follow, one elf, Barak climbs the rock slide Windblade created and jumps him from behind. Windblade punches his nose into his face. The girl rides the horse up the sand slide, Windblade takes his bow and arrows. The half armless boy cannot fire his gun: there is gas in the area and one spark will set the whole canyon up. Windblade shoots an arrow into another elf and out his back. A warrior rushes him and he shoots him in the forehead. Another,dressed like Robin Hood, attacks with a sword, too. Windblade whaps him with his bow and the arrow hits him in the upper stomach. The boy and father figure Windblade has only one arrow. Windblade tells the girl to hide but she won't. She is Meeron Ap Rhoyan, the niece of the war chief of the cat people. The war chief is her mother's brother. She will not hide when Windblade tells her what is going to happen is not going to be pretty. She asks what he is doing. He tells her to move back as he lights a match and puts it to an arrow, "Better move back. Remember...curiosity killed the cat..." Windblade fires it at the father and son, blowing the area up including the dragon shaped mouth. Windblade says, "Uh oh," when he sees many warriors on horseback over the ridge of an upper cliff. It is Rhoyan who calls Windblade Greensleeve a great warrior. The cat people will destroy the elf town below for vengeanceññthey did nothing to help the niece or Windblade. They burn it to the ground. Windblade watches from under a tree.