Review: Jackalope Springs Eternal - Volume #12 Lumberjanes - Shannon Watters and Noelle Stevenson - July 2019 After the Voice nearly ruined the Lumberjanes camp in Volume # 11, this volume starts quite depressing with the Lumberjanes losing their zest as everything they had come to love was nearly taken away from then and now they are in the mindset that anything dangerous and magical might ruin their life as they know it.  Jen their cabin leader doesn't like the atmosphere and she wants her fun and adventurous girls back instead of having them mope around the cabin. Jen knows deep down that the Roanoke cabin can't resist finding new creatures and so she invents a Jackalope which of course the cabin believes is mythical and doesn't exist yet Jen isn't ready to give up on the jackalope hunt. During the girls hunt for the Jackalope they come across a cowgirl who has a set of creatures that are one-eyed and considered freaks. She has been hunting a tornado twi...

Review: Time After Crime - Volume #11 Lumberjanes Graphic Novel - Shannon Watters - April 2019 We learned in the last Lumberjanes novel that Molly and her parents didn't see eye to eye and that she was afraid to invite them to Parent's Day as the camp wasn't what they assumed. They thought they were sending Molly to a camp for young ladies - a bit like Finishing School. Of course, they got a shock as they arrived late to Parent's Day and discovered a different sort of camp. Now that Summer is heading to an end and soon it will be time for the Lumberjanes to head back to their real lives. In Time After Crime, Jo our resident scientist has been busy creating an invention to measure time as they have noticed some strange oddities happening and in parts, time seems to move slower. One evening, Molly hears a wee voice telling her how to slow down time, as Molly doesn't want camp to end - she does what the voice tells her. However, the consequence for sl...

Review: Lumberjanes - #Volume 10 - Parents Day - Various Authors - December 2018 Readers of The Phantom Paragrapher, know that I often don't post graphic novels on my site, but one graphic novel series that I have fallen in love with is the Lumberjanes which are like girl scouts with a touch of magic. No matter how hard they try to be healthy, things happen. In Volume 10, it's Parents Day coming up, and all the campers parents are embarking on the camp to see how their children are going. Rosie and the Bear Woman have talked to the surrounding animals for a truce so that the day can act "normally'. Of course, what's a lumberjane graphic novel without a bit of chaos and mayhem as an elusive creature - the fox demon has gotten hold of Rosie's scavenger hunt form and added in a few extra crazy items for the families to find. However, when disaster strikes and a few parents go missing along with some campers, can the lumberjanes that remain keep...