Long Lost #3 Review

Writer: Matthew Erman / Artist: Lisa Sterle / Scout Comics It’s hinted that something… beastly that lived in the woods found something else that struck its curiosity. This is something whose presence was felt back when Frances and Piper were two small children with dirtied faces and bare feet, running for their lives. Its presence is felt now in the present day as adult sisters sit trapped by the coming night and restless beings that makes themselves known, startling them greatly. Flashbacks are often seen as lazy in writing, yet I look forward to them Long Lost as they reveal to me that the past is not simply the past for the girls. Past memories tie into the current day so precisely that in a sense, there are almost parallels—that the two tiers of storytelling mirror each other. This is unsettling when we question what if whatever drove the girls away never really left them. It’s fascinating when the pages of flashbacks turn into the pages of current day and you get the feeling that Frances and Piper are possibly receiving a sort of homecoming… or even reliving one.

The third issue of Long Lost which acts as the third chapter of this story brings the girls back home on the cusp of town where the welcoming party locals greet them and the creep factor gets turned up, alllll the way up. From zero to one hundred the girls are violently greeted by somebodies from the forest and I almost lost it. What really works here in this issue is the pacing. The first seven pages are w…