COMIC BOOK REVIEW: Lumberjanes #7

From Noelle Stevenson and Grace Ellis and artist Brooke Allen, offers you an enchanting camp adventure with five girls as they encountered different series of weird and out of this world events. BOOM! Studios presents you Lumberjanes. It’s radical and it’s weird.

Stevenson and Ellis featured an all-female cast wherein it not only show, girl power but screams freedom to discover new things outside the world of rules and regulations inside the camp. Each character reprised a quirky, but with more than just-what-you-see-is-what-you-get attitude. (For example, April is the studious one but, can easily win in an arm-wrestling competition.) It is a comic book triggered to attract young girls and for ladies, who are young at heart (especially if you are fond of camping and such.), but also for guys who are tired of all the dark images and entangling plots of crime and justice. With such gutsy and courageous protagonists, Jo, April, Mal, Molly and Ripley, who were still out of the woods way past their bedtime, bending rules and fighting boy scouts who turned into wolves and even discovering that Artemis is actually their campmate, Lumberjanes is definitely a comic book for those who want to read a feel-good Adventure Time style story. With its peculiar but colorful artwork by Brooke Allen, the light heartening feeling of the story makes it more evident in each pages. Each page gives off a positive and colorful aura that shows that friendship is still not cliché topic in comic books — which is hard of pull off especially at this generation. It’s not fluffy or cheesy, but the atmosphere of adventure and friendship comes off naturally. It brings off a vibrant feeling that would make you feel so good, that you want to hug the book.

The only turn-off to this book is that there is less character development. Like in most books, first issues much likely to bombard you with character introductions in snippets. However, in Lumberjanes, it immediately sets you off to an adventure, without telling you who are the characters. It stuff the pages with so many interesting and weird situations happening to the characters — and not what the characters are. It directly tells you that this book is about this — and nothing else. It’s straight-forward and directive book.

So, if you are looking for Adventure Time meets Madeline meets Gravity Falls comic book to set a new sensation in your pull list, pick this up and be a Lumberjane yourself.