The Low, Low Woods

Thanks to DC Comics and Netgalley for providing me with an ARC for review.

Carmen Maria Machado always has permission to completely devastate me. In proper CMM fashion that is exactly how I felt after finishing this comic.

The Low, Low Woods is a story about El and Vee who one day wake up in the movie theater without any recollection of what had happened. Searching for answers they find much more than they had bargained for while looking deeper into the history of Shudder-to-Think.

CMM excels at any medium that she touches. This was so much a story about women reclaiming their agency on their own terms. The monsters may not be the creepy beings in the woods but instead your next-door neighbor.

If you are looking for another read about teenage girls disrupting the patriarchy, this one is for you.