Long Lost #6 Review

Writer: Matthew Erman / Artist: Lisa Sterle / Scout Comics This issue of Long Lost starts off in the past, in memories from long ago, in happier times when Piper and Francis were much younger. They are pages with a lighter tone with kid Francis and kid Piper being exactly who they are until we see what is probably the first traumatic event involving their unstable mother running out from the woods. That particular page just screams FRIGHT, and it is a startling jump in the narrative to remind us where we are: last issue Piper and Frances left somewhere no one else could follow them and here they arrive at a place long forgotten.

I thought things couldn’t get darker but as I read on, I was surely mistaken as the sisters arrive to this place of old that they never thought they’d ever see again. What really works on the art side this issue is the framing of certain scenes and playing up the tonality of the color scheme as we trek further with each pages. As Francis and her sister keep on, ironically more light is shed on who their mother was, her connection to the well, and the mysteries of the woods. Sterle makes sure to bring her A game to the scenes within the house as they really demonstrate this, and there are a variety to the facial emotions that we see flicker across faces and in the action scenes. What works with the story is as things keep going from 0-100, as the bizarre keeps jumping in bed with otherworldy, Erman stays penning the story and keeps inserting the girls…