Lumberjanes Volume 1: Beware the kitten holy

Title: Lumberjanes Vol1: Beware the Kitten Holy
Author: Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Faith Hicks, Brooke A. Allen (Illustrator), Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Carolyn Nowak (Illustrator), Carey Pietsch (Illustrator)
Genre/ issues: Graphic novel. Comic books. Fantasy. Mystery.

I’ve been wanting to get back into reading comics again for a while now. I remember loving them when I was a kid, but I grew up in a town with no comic store so was limited to whatever Archie and Casper comics the newsagents would occasionally get in. I’ve seen so many great comics released in recent years, and whilst I want to read them, it’s quite overwhelming to figure out just where to start! So, in my “supporting independent stores” focus for #iso2020 I hit up some comic nerds for advice, signed up for a Kings Comics gold card, and ordered me some comics! 

Lumberjanes is one that I’ve been hearing about for a while, so it was the first that I delved into when my parcel of comicky goodness arrived. Volume 1, Beware the kitten holy, is a collection of editions 1 to 4 of the Lumberjanes comics, and I adored it. The blurb reads:

“At Miss Qiunzilla Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s camp for hard-core lady-types, things are not what they seem. Three-eyed foxes. Secret caves. Anagrams. Luckily, Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley are five rad, butt-kicking best pals determined to have an awesome summer together… And they’re not gonna let a magical quest or an array of supernatural critters get in their way! The mystery keeps getting bigger, and it all begins here.”

It’s quirky, funny, a great balance of mystery and action, with some fab positive representations of female characters of all kinds. I’ll definitely be going back for more of this female-created comic about the creepy happenings at the summer camp for “hard-core lady types”. An utter delight, and a great place to start back into my comic reading adventures!

#TamaraReads #2020readingchallenge 19/52

Happy reading,