Long Lost Book 2 #4 Review

Writer: Matthew Erman / Artist: Lisa Sterle / Scout Comics The start of this issue begins with some panels of younger Piper and Francis innocently playing some children’s game with their hands together in a seemingly trusting way. This is obviously a flashback to their past, yet it holds some foreshadowing to what happens later in the issue. The prose speaks of something growing with one, and nearby something, what’s left of an animal, rots near the girl. There is some cycle of birthing and dying that has started in this town with this family, with these girls, and I reckon the sisters and their twisted family setup are going to be much more involved in this whole cycle before this book comes to an end.

So as if things couldn’t get worse for our sisters, time and space have shifted creating that three year gap where they were…just missing. Thinking of who to trust and whom they’ve just been revealed to be related to has all been shaky ground, and they both are stalked by those who would do them harm. Death ever hangs in the air, heavy and damp. This issue has the girls reunited yet on their heels is a predator. There’s been so much that has been flipped on its head. But when they take each other’s hands and take off together, Francis tells her big sister “I trust you forever. Always.” This is a tear-jerker as everyone else in life and this place, especially after their returning has failed them in some way. Or tried to murder them. Or trap them. Or trick them. Or eat them…