Kathryn Hemmann, Woman Write About Comics (WWAC):
“Astute readers will have guessed from the title of Fruiting Bodies that this is a story of mushroom horror. Thanks to various online memes (including the infamous “you cannot kill me in a way that matters” Tumblr post), it’s become a truism that any terrible thing you can imagine about mushrooms actually exists, from Cordyceps fungus infesting the brains of ants to a Honey Mushroom mycelial network in Oregon being more than four miles wide.
Franklin joins Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Jeff Vandermeer in the pantheon of contemporary writers and artists who have celebrated the uncanny invisible world that stretches deep below our feet and proliferates in the warmth of our bodies. Classical botanical horror has its roots in concerns over cultural hybridization, but Fruiting Bodies resists the genre’s Victorian anxieties in favor of a probing exploration of the primal fears surrounding the collapse of bodily autonomy. In the end, Franklin suggests, human social distinctions of gender and sexuality are meaningless to a natural world that devours everyone equally.”
Read the full review on WWAC’s website here!