By Zack Quaintance — This summer, Sas Milledge has a new book on the way from BOOM! Studios’ excellent, YA-skewing imprint, BOOM! Box, that book being MAMO #1. This book looks absolutely beautiful, much like Milledge’s recent work for DC Comics YA line did, that being The Lost Carnival: A Dick Grayson Graphic Novel. You can see just how pretty this comic looks below, in the set of pages we have the honor of unveiling here for the first time.

In terms of the plot, MAMO #1 is about a young hedge witch named Orla O’Reily whose grandmother passes away, her grandmother being the titular Mamo. Upon returning to her hometown, Orla makes an unlikely new friend as she starts to also investigate a series magical disturbances and mysteries. She also comes to realize that her grandmother was managing the magical relationships between the townsfolk and the fae, and without her, the seas are impossible to fish and crops have soured.

MAMO #1 — the first of five parts — marks the start of a story about a divide between humanity and the faerie world, about coming from a long line of powerful hedge witches, and about the potential for unlikely friends to turn into something more…anyway! MAMO #1 will be available in comic shops on July 7. You can find five interior pages revealed here for the first time, along with two variant covers for the first issue…enjoy!

EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: MAMO #1 by Sas Milledge

MAMO #1
Writer/Artist: Sas Milledge
Publisher: BOOM! Studios - BOOM! Box
BOOM! Studios is proud to showcase the incredible artistic vision of Sas Milledge!
Can Orla O'Reilly embrace her destiny in order to bridge the divide between humanity and the faerie world?
Orla, the youngest in a long line of hedge witches, finds herself pulled back to her hometown after the death of her grandmother - Mamo.
Without Mamo managing magical relationships between the townsfolk and the fae, the seas are impossible to fish, the crops have soured... and Jo Manalo's attic has been taken over by a poltergeist!
Now, Orla and Jo will both be pulled into worlds they never wanted to be part of. Can the two girls work together to save the town?
Sas Milledge (The Lost Carnival: A Dick Grayson Graphic Novel) debuts her first original series perfect for fans of The Last Witch and Sabrina The Teenage Witch that answers the question of how we all reconcile our responsibilities with our dreams for our own future.
Price: $4.99
Release Date: July 7, 2021

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Zack Quaintance is a tech reporter by day and freelance writer by night/weekend. He Tweets compulsively about storytelling and comics as Comics Bookcase.