![]() ![]() ![]() The main benefit to the volume over the issues is that the volume has whatever excerpts from the Lumberjane Field Manual covering whatever badge they earn in the issue. And Jen, the cabin leader, is my favorite. They took the initial draw and just made it better. The storyline gets even better in this volume as they learn about the strangeness of their camp. I also have a strange love of the liberal use of "what the junk" and "splainin". The girl are well written, their friendships are true to life, at least in my experience, and their capable. I' ve wanted to just binge through it now that I have a bunch of issues available on Scribd.Īll the things that I loved about the issues that comprised the first volume are still here. The volume turned out to have a little more and really made it worthwhile to wait for the volumes rather than read the issues, but that may require more patience than I have. Lumberjanes Vol 2 (or #5-8) Okay, so I read the volume and not the issues individually but the issues have the same info, so I added them to the review. ![]()
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