Long Lost Book 2 #3 Review

Writer: Matthew Erman / Artist: Lisa Sterle / Scout Comics Piper finding herself in the place we only know as The Sound, with this woman that isn’t quite her mother and not quite a person, but close enough–can be seen as a blessing in some very ironic type of way. Neither she or her sister have seen their mother since that fateful night where she was taken away and regardless of her reasons or whatever she was working to keep away from the girls–Piper now has the time and space to tell her mother what’s good: she’s not off the hook for her actions and her disappearance that has impacted her daughters and family. It’s a astounding moment that bleeds into a few more panels with dialogue that doesn’t sound forced or stunted. More calm and collected now then in previous issues when scary and serious sh%t has hit the fan, Piper doesn’t feel in danger from this version of her mother and it is the mention of a name that from her lips that drops a bomb on her from her mom: a revelation that effectively drops us back into the pool of shock and dread. Brb. Crying over Pockets. I feel like I’ve locked myself in a room. Doing 5 beats a day for 3 summers to keep from tweeting the creative team every issue about this damn dog. Her escape from that place with something awful at her heels brings this new tier of action: the black colored text boxes with the flowery prose that serves as letter, a message written by their mother God knows how long ago–that follows along these pages. It’s a …