The Mist-Walker follows a half-ogre, Temperance, and the witches who raised her. Their small village is in a forest that is surrounded by a mysterious Mist that attacks and kills whatever goes into it. This first volume unfolds as Temperance and the witches start a journey to try to figure out how to survive and defeat the mist.

I have to say, the storytelling in this volume was all over the place and not very clear. While I could come up with a simple storyline to summarize this volume, it was hard to follow exactly what the point of the story is. It's about the Mist attacking people, and Temperance coming into her own, and Temperance and her grandmother's relationship, and about the witches in their village, and about humans hunting the Mist (maybe?) and the witches, and about a truly random love story between Temperance and a human, and, and, and. There is SO much here, and none of it really coheres into a solid storyline. Every idea is battling the others and it makes for a very muddy and confusing story.

The art is the real highlight here, however. Character design is very fun, with short squat witches and beautiful curvy witches and big beefy Temperance. The color work is mostly muted, which works for the very flowy quality of the art. There was some great emotional storytelling happening in the art itself. Really lovely.

Thanks to NetGalley and Europe Comics for the chance to read this.