=content warnings: violence, blood
representation: black main character, fat main character, sapphic main character, black side characters, native american sapphic side character, sikh minor character

This was alright. Honestly, this entire first volume overall fell kind of flat for me.

The concept for this is really cool: the story is set in a small town that is only known for being the filming location for the cult classic The Gloomies, and a group of teenage girls have discovered a treasure map from the belongings of a recently deceased sailor.

All of the characters didn't feel like real people to me. They were just a series of tropes in people-like shapes. Even though the main characters are meant to be friends, half the time it felt like they were a group of strangers forced to work on a school project together.

The plot is interesting, but I hope it ramps up in the next volume because at this point it's just a fairly cliche adventure. Also, the art isn't really doing it for me :/

I hope volume 2 is better, otherwise this series might be the first big miss from BOOM! for me.