El and Octavia's memories have gone missing. Like so many women in Shudder-To-Think, PA, before them, all they have is a void where the truth once was. But as time passes, El finds herself needing to know more about what has happened, while Octavia wants nothing more than to forget the forgetting. Can these two teenage dirtbags reconcile their differences before the horrible things lurking beneath their town emerge and swallow them whole?
A strong indictment of how we inherit the violence in our world. With this being the second issue, Machado has cemented herself into the medium fantastically. For a "literary" reader like me, this is an exciting time to be reading a piece in an industry that's sadly heavily male-dominated. Despite it being from the big two publishers, I have to praise DC for allowing Machado to tell such a powerful and socially relevant book like this. Readers in the industry can subconsciously learn a lot from this book, and I'm excited about the discussion that ensues because of it. This is a nice salve for everyone's scars. Hopefully, together we may all see each other this way. Scars and all. Read Full Review
The Low, Low Woods #2, the second issue of this Hill House thriller deepens the mystery and takes us down into the depths of a town where horror has become a way of life. That's the smartest thing Carmen Maria Machado does in this series " she perfectly captures the mundane, dead-eyed approach the residents of this town have to both the otherworldly and the existential nightmares under their town. Read Full Review
While I enjoyed reading this issue while I was reading it, when I hit the end I wasn't sure how I felt about it overall and I still don't. It's almost like there's too much going on without anything going on. Read Full Review
Now a big chunk of this may be because the heart of the story centres around El and Octavias relationship, with the towns oddities playing second fiddle, and theres the possibility that all these themes may connect further down the line, but its just taking me too far out of the story for me to completely enjoy it at this stage. I think that this may well be a series where I wait for the trades to arrive. Read Full Review
I think I'm more invested now in the town of Shudder-to-Think rather than the relationship between Octavia and El, but the pair have a meaningful enough and compelling dynamic that they work well in this creepy setting. Read Full Review
Not scary at all but at least they're dialling up the creepy and the characters aren't enormously unlikeable like in issue #1. This issue wasn't bad but it is lacking in any significant impact or charm. I hope it can improve because the idea of a town that hides secrets from the world but warps whoever lives there shouldn't be a hard concept to screw up.
Idk man. It is kinda good and it is kinda not good. I have to read more.
The characters remain sort of boring, the plot remains kinda bland.
Well, this continues to be a boring comic with zero scares.
Absolute crap. Unreadable. Dropped.
The characters got really annoying, whiney and just a bad story to follow.
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