smcwalters 's review for:

Digger, Volume One by Ursula Vernon
4.0

Ursula Vernon has won several awards for the art of her comic, "Digger." She uses shadow and light beautifully, in a story that's--well, actually all about shadow and light.

Vernon's writing is smart and witty, and it's pretty clear she's been a gamer at some point in her life.

Digger is a stubborn, hardworking, sarcastic, intelligent, er...wombat who loses her way underground, digging herself further and further from the familiar earth of home and into a dangerously unfamiliar world where she finds herself taking advice from a living statue of Ganesh, becoming part of a barbaric tribe of hyenas, and taking under her wing a naive young shadow creature who is capable of horrific things, but is constantly asking child-like questions about right and wrong.

Meanwhile, evil things begin stirring far below in the earth, and Digger determines that, while she's searching for a way home, she might as well get to the bottom of these dangerous and seemingly magic events in a logical and levelheaded way.

Because that's what wombats *do*.
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Digger can be found online at the graphicsmash.com website. The first 286 pages are free, as are weekly updates.