When the two girls catch sight of a bizarre creature, half-deer and half-human, El offers some matter-of-fact speculations: “Maybe someone fucked up a spell, or maybe it came out of the crevice in the park.” Skinless men periodically appear near a stretch of woodland, but the locals have learnt to take this in their stride: indeed, a flashback reveals that the two protagonists first met when El casually saved Vee from one of these flayed figures. The small Pennsylvania town of Shudder-to-Think turns out to have a lot more strangeness to it than a few lost memories, as this story by writer Carmen Maria Machado and artist Dani soon makes clear. In practice, however, the mystery of the cinema turns out to be a MacGuffin that tugs El and Vee along as they, in turn, pull us through their surroundings. This, at least, is the easily-summarised hook to The Low, Low Woods the sort of thing that makes a good, catchy back-of-the-book synopsis.
The Low, Low Woods Tamra Bonvillain (Colourist), Sam Wolfe Connelly (Cover artist), Dani (Artist), Carmen Maria Machado (Writer), Steve Wands (Letterer) Clearly, something has happened – something stranger than two girls falling asleep in a cinema – and so El and Vee must find out what happened during the missing slice of time. They soon find that Vee has unexplained mud on her shoes, no-one else went to see the film, and the sole staff member present is behaving oddly. Sitting in a cinema together, teenage friends El and Vee realise that neither of them has any memory of the film that has just ended.
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