The Lost Path really lost me. I enjoyed the illustrations (Flechais is talented with ink and color), but the story confused me. I had to reread it twice. The magical-whimsicalness that I love was there, but the execution was not good to me. I thought we were going to learn more about that cool-looking fox, but then it changed to whoever had the bowler hat had control over the forest. The ending was funny in the sense that as soon as the big showdown is about to happen, we get shooed away.

I liked the prideful main character and his banter with his more cautious friend. I’m not sure if the MC’s little brother had an over-active imagination or was somewhere on the spectrum. Either way, the characters, in general, were not too bad besides being snarky. My overall impression of this is the story would work better as a short animation.