It’s a book that makes you want to stop and study the page. I’m not much of a periodical reader, but this is one of those comics that I might have collected issue by issue, just because of how beautiful it is. Milledge has an eye for detail, a thin, expressive line, and a great eye for color. Despite previous coverage, he’s agreed to let me take a crack at it.įirst, let me discuss one of the biggest draws to MAMO, and that is Milledge’s fantastic art. I don’t think I need to refute Daniel’s review, but I find myself much further away from Daniel’s position than I expected after I read the book.

Jo and Orla grow close as they discover the truth of what is happening in Haresden.ĭaniel found the book to be neither good nor bad – just a tired and threadbare sort of story for a specific sort of audience. Now she is drawn back to fix the problems that started with her grandmother. When she was younger, Orla escaped from Mamo’s tutelage and into the wider world. There, she meets Jo Manalo, a curious and determined young woman who needs Orla’s help to fix various magical mishaps in Haresden since Mamo passed away. In the series, hedge witch Orla O’Reilly returns home to the coastal town of Haresden after the death of her grandmother, Mamo. The series ran in serialized form in 2021 and was collected in April 2022. 'I am so excited to finally share Mamo with the world! This book has been circling around my head for the better part of a decade, and I'm so glad it has finally landed here in its final form a story about family and friendship filled with witches, birds, faeries, and trolls!' said Milledge.In 2022, my dear friend, and the publisher of SOLRAD, wrote a micro-review about Sas Milledge’s MAMO, a five-issue miniseries published by BOOM! Comics under their BOOM! Box imprint. They'll have to work together to find the source of all their otherworldly problems but are the two up to the task? When Jo goes to Orla for help, the young hedge witch is reluctantly pulled into the town's complicated relationship with the Fae, and Jo gets a crash course on the surprising world of magic that lies right beneath the surface of her normal, boring hometown.

But without Mamo around to deal with the town's magic, it's quickly fallen into chaos and now there's a poltergeist in local Jo Manalo's attic! Sas Milledge's Mamo From Boom The youngest in a long line of hedge witches, Orla finds herself back in the town where she grew up after her grandmother, Mamo's, death. Orla O'Reilly has never been the type of witch to put down roots. Boom Studios will publish Mamo in July 2021. Mamo is a five-issue comic book series about a young hedge witch who returns to her hometown after her grandmother's death, only to find an unlikely new friend and a series of mysterious magical disturbances that need to be solved.

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