Haley Newsome

Cutely drawn witch characters noodle around until the book abruptly stops without accomplishing anything except introducing everybody. It's all situation and no story.

Planchette can only do food magic well and needs help getting the ghosts out of her new home. Pinyon isn't very good at any magic. Sun is gruff with everyone because she has a curse that puts her only eye in her hair bun and she is working a bunch of menial part-time jobs. Babs is a siren who doesn't want everyone to be attracted to her all the time.

The title is Unfamiliar, but the plot is all too familiar as one by one these misfits all meet each other and start forming friendships and helping each other with their problems in their noodling fashion.

Not bad, but not satisfying on its own. It might be best to wait to read this until the next volume comes out in October.… (mehr)

Pretty adorable comic. Plot-wise, I can tell this is a serialized webcomic though. The chapters meander from idea to idea with most threads suffering from a lack of getting fully developed or resolved. Things are picked up and subsequently dropped at what seems to be whatever the author is currently interested in writing about, making the narrative cohesion less tight than a volume that was conceived of and written as one unit. Still a fun comic with enjoyable characters, I just wish the plotting was a bit tighter.… (mehr)