Seriously, the whole thing just makes my little feminist heart flutter. (the names are linked to the ladies' wikipedia pages, but Goodreads users will have to just google them.) Another character says 'Agnodice' in #6 and then Jen throws down with Sister Rosetta Tharpe in that same issue. I thought using the names of famous women of their heritage was amazing. Which just meant that I looked up every name that came after.

All questions are finally answered and the scouts learn the true importance of trust and friendship. But I made the connection then she exclaimed 'Holy bell hooks' in #5. This crazy war between Apollo and Artemis finally reaches its peak and it's up to the Lumberjanes to save their camp from this crazy sibling rivalry. I had seen it back in #2 when Jen yelled 'Holy Mae Jamison' but I didn' t recognize the name. The main benefit to the volume over the issues is that the volume has whatever excerpts from the Lumberjane Field Manual covering whatever badge they earn in the issue. And Jen, the cabin leader, is my favorite. They took the initial draw and just made it better. The storyline gets even better in this volume as they learn about the strangeness of their camp. I also have a strange love of the liberal use of 'what the junk' and 'splainin'. The girl are well written, their friendships are true to life, at least in my experience, and their capable. I' ve wanted to just binge through it now that I have a bunch of issues available on Scribd.Īll the things that I loved about the issues that comprised the first volume are still here. The volume turned out to have a little more and really made it worthwhile to wait for the volumes rather than read the issues, but that may require more patience than I have. Holy: Lumberjanes, Book 1 collects four issues of the ongoing comic series cocreated by Noelle Stevenson (Nimona), Grace Ellis, and Shannon Watters.

Lumberjanes Vol 2 (or #5-8) Okay, so I read the volume and not the issues individually but the issues have the same info, so I added them to the review.

Lumberjanes, Vol. 8 by Shannon Watters