Baba Yaga's Assistant is a cute middle-grade comic about family, love, and heritage. Masha is a young woman who was raised by her grandmother after her mother died and her father checked out. Once her grandmother dies, Masha is at a loss and finds solace in the fairy tales her grandmother told her. She decides she'd like to find Baba Yaga and become her assistant, which starts a magical journey of coming into her own.

I'm not super familiar with the Baba Yaga mythos, but the story was the perfect knife edge balance of horror and comfort. She is at once a kindly grandmother and a terror witch of the forest. As a fellow lover of fairy tales, Masha is relatable to the extreme, and her character is built up layer by layer wonderfully. The art is a similar balance of cool and warm colors; sharp and soft angles.

Baba Yaga's Assistant was a lovely, quick read and I heartily recommend it to adults and children alike!