Maarta Laiho

This was a perfect read for the beginning of October because of the scary stories the girls told in the beginning! I was especially excited about Molly’s telling of the Tailypo legend since I heard about it on an episode of Spirits Podcast. It was so cool to see it illustrated. My favorite part of this volume was the amount of interaction between Molly and Mal. They are so super cute, to the max! At first I didn’t like the change in illustration style from the first two volumes to this one, but aspects of it grew on me. Separate from that, I really liked the way the styles changed when each girl was narrating their story and how the individual style fit with the tone of the story! Overall this was a great read… (mere)

With this third volume of the Lumberjanes series, I really enjoyed all the different illustration styles, but as far as the rest, it was just "ok" for me. I feel like the story in the first two volumes was much more connected to each other and made more of an overarching plot, while this one seemed kind of jumbled up and random.

There wasn't anything that I particularly found really funny like in the previous two volumes either, which was a big draw to this series for me. The dialogue is still quirky, but it seemed as though it hit a little bit too much above the mark of quirkiness where it doesn't fit together quite right. Furthermore, the bit at the beginning with the scary stories was pretty boring to me because they weren't remotely scary and yet the characters were getting scared and kept telling more of the same type of stories.

I really enjoyed the bond between the group as a whole in the first two volumes as well, so with this one splitting the group up, a lot of that was also missing. While I think Mal and Molly are cute together, I missed seeing the group work off of each other as a whole.

In a way it is difficult to describe what seemed so different overall with this volume that made me like it less than the ones before. Perhaps to best sum it up would be to say that the story felt more like pieces put together in a mismatched sort of way, as well as the humor seeming off. I was really enjoying the series thus far so was a bit disappointed with this addition, but I may still keep reading and see where it goes from here.… (mere)

Just like the first volume, volume 2 of Lumberjanes was awesome. I still loved the art style, characters, dialogue, camp theme, chapter openers, humor, and expressiveness of this comic series. I didn't have as many laugh-out-loud moments in this one as the first one but it did contain a lot of the same type of random humor reminiscent of Adventure Time. I loved particularly how the mystery has been playing out, I think the journey through figuring it out and the resolution were both a perfect fit for this comic and that it really worked to balance it out a bit while also staying true to its main themes. All in all this series is just FUN and it makes me want to go to a camp like this, even though I'm too old for it. Would definitely recommend, and in fact have done so to many people already.… (mere)