Long Lost #4 Review

Writer: Matthew Erman / Artist: Lisa Sterle / Scout Comics Rescued by their Aunt, Piper and Frances have finally made it back home and this issue sets a slower pace than what we’re used to. Frances and Piper awaken from their much needed slumber from the previous night’s terrifying events and it is akin to waking up on a sleepy Sunday morning. You know before you really, really wake up and you’re kinda just there leaving the dream state and getting your body to respond? Something like that. Piper is the first to wake and her musing on this place are poetic which isn’t unusual from Writer Erman as we’ve seem him pen some stunning lines from opening and ending previous issues. The opening lines of the comic read: “Home is a place left or forgotten. Loved, if you’re lucky. This is a story about my home. However boring, normal or gruesome it is.” Being home is bound to bring out several emotions that will sooner of later come to the surface, whether our sisters want them to or not.

Artist Sterle’s choice for a color scheme that’s not vivid and bright which I’ve always loved really, really works well with the tone set for this issue: the town Piper and Frances explore is bleak, downtrodden and mostly normal on the surface. The girls walk through town seeing the sights, seeing a place down on its luck and destitute in many places. They stick together though and we’re seen glimpses of this grand place that we may have thought to be so awful on paper when we kept learning about it a…