The Low, Low Woods

 

Today's post is on The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado, DANI, and Tamra Bonvillain. It is 168 pages long and is published by DC Black Label. The cover has two girls underside down looking down forest in red. The intended reader is someone who is interested in horror, female lead comics. There is foul language, sex and sexuality. and violence in this comic. The story is told from third person close of the two main characters, El and Vee. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the back of the book- There's Something in the Woods...
Shudder-to-Think, Pennsylvania, has been on fire for years. THe woods are full of rabbits with human eyes, a deer woman who stalks hungry girls, and swaths of skinless men. And the people of Shudder-to-Think? Well, they're not doing do well either.
When El and Octavia wake up in a movie theater with no memory of the last few hours of their lives, the two teenagers dirtbags embark on a horrifying journey to uncover the truth about the strange town they call home.

Review- An interesting mini horror comic series, that talks about some very hard subjects without giving any pat answers. El and Octavia, Vee, go to see a movie and then they wake up with no memory and a feeling that something is very wrong. They have always known that their town was strange with weird animals and women just going missing then returning with no memories about where they were or what they did. But this time El and Vee are determined to discover what was going on and maybe try to stop it. An interesting story about growing up, learning hard truths and trying to change things that are wrong around you. The Low, Low Woods is about so much and the team that made it did a wonderful job telling this story. There is discussion of rape, child sexual abuse, and murder but nothing too graphic happens on the page, the horror doesn't have to be shown to be felt by the reader. If you have a stomach for tough stories about tough subjects, then you should read this comic. 

I give this comic a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this comic from my local library.