Wytches, Volume 1

I really dug this take on witchy lore. As I've mentioned in other reviews, witches never scared me (with the one notable exception of the Blair Witch, a movie I watched way too often as a 10-year-old who lived near the woods in the middle of nowhere) and instead always just seemed like cool ladies doing cool lady things. These things were older, more monstrous in looks...but honestly, they still weren't the scary ones. The wytches abide by their own rules and won't gobble you up unless another human decides that hey, I want eternal life or whatever, eat this person. Humans are the real monsters, etc. etc.

This wasn't perfect: Sail's anxiety was talked about but never really shown, and the whole thing with the mom seemed underdeveloped and purely for shock value but I liked the concept and I absolutely loved all the essays that Scott Snyder wrote about his inspiration for the story and the healing nature of the horror genre. Overall, 3.5 hungry trees out of 5, bumped up for a spooky good time.