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Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Grace Ellis, ND Stevenson, Shannon Watters
5.0

You may search near, you may search far, you may search high, you may search low, you may follow the first star on the right and go straight on till morning, but rare will you find a comic as packed to the rafters with sheer shenanigans as this. From the very first page and a night-time tussle with three-eyed foxes leading to a mysterious message about a holy kitten, Lumberjanes kicks off the shenanigans with all the joy and energy and impulsive insanity of a group of friends with not a moment of summer to waste on non-shenanigan-type activity. This comic charms, delights, thrills and warms the cockles of the hardest heart and melts the soul of the most frozen grouch. It's also a masterpiece of fast-paced story-telling that conveys character and setting and background with minimal effort and maximum effect, while pausing only for quiet moments and to take an occasional breath. Not a panel wasted, not an extraneous word-balloon, but every moment packed with everything you need need to know, and a fizzing, popping spray of sheer fun coming out of every page. This is the absolute best.