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Wet Moon #7
Morning Cold
The long-awaited final volume completes the entire Wet Moon series.
Trilby is finally out of the hospital, but she feels anything but ready to face daily life again. Even though Myrtle is in prison and Trilby is safe, everything is different and nothing feels right. Cleo, Mara, Audrey, and Martin struggle to support Trilby, but will it ever be enough? Things don't seem like they'll ever be the same again, and everyone must pick up the pieces and figure out where their lives are going. Don't miss the final volume of the critically-acclaimed series!
Trilby is finally out of the hospital, but she feels anything but ready to face daily life again. Even though Myrtle is in prison and Trilby is safe, everything is different and nothing feels right. Cleo, Mara, Audrey, and Martin struggle to support Trilby, but will it ever be enough? Things don't seem like they'll ever be the same again, and everyone must pick up the pieces and figure out where their lives are going. Don't miss the final volume of the critically-acclaimed series!
152 pages, Paperback
First published November 13, 2018
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About the author
Sophie Campbell
281 books237 followersOne of the most exciting and talented creators working in comics today, Sophie Campbell has made her mark on IDW books such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Jem and the Holograms.
A graduate of the Savannah College of Art & Design, Campbell began her career writing and drawing independent comics primarily focused on the lives of young women from all walks of life, including Wet Moon, Shadoweyes, and the Abandoned. She further proved her versatility as an artist when she began drawing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for IDW, where her kinetic action sequences and distinctive character art were a hit with fans and critics alike.
Campbell was brought on as the first artist on the IDW continuing series Jem and the Holograms, where she was responsible for the modern redesign of the characters and establishing the unique look of the comic. Her work on Jem with writer Kelly Thompson was so well received that the two were profiled by the New Yorker in 2015.
Campbell continues to work on several projects for IDW, as well as her own creator-owned independent comics.
A graduate of the Savannah College of Art & Design, Campbell began her career writing and drawing independent comics primarily focused on the lives of young women from all walks of life, including Wet Moon, Shadoweyes, and the Abandoned. She further proved her versatility as an artist when she began drawing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for IDW, where her kinetic action sequences and distinctive character art were a hit with fans and critics alike.
Campbell was brought on as the first artist on the IDW continuing series Jem and the Holograms, where she was responsible for the modern redesign of the characters and establishing the unique look of the comic. Her work on Jem with writer Kelly Thompson was so well received that the two were profiled by the New Yorker in 2015.
Campbell continues to work on several projects for IDW, as well as her own creator-owned independent comics.
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November 15, 2018
This was an emotional read for me. I’m one of the fans that discovered Sophie’s work through Deviantart and her own website thereof. As such, I’ve been following the characters and their stories since long before even the first volume was published.
The artwork in this volume was exquisite. It’s so wonderful to see an artists’ work evolve and grow and this is no exception. The storytelling, as always, was subtle but powerful. Good, good stuff. Heart-rending but good.
The artwork in this volume was exquisite. It’s so wonderful to see an artists’ work evolve and grow and this is no exception. The storytelling, as always, was subtle but powerful. Good, good stuff. Heart-rending but good.
May 4, 2019
When I first started this series, I was annoyed by and quite impatient with characters. I thought majority of them were whiny and shallow but quite believable. As I continued to read, that changed. I really enjoy them. Don’t get me wrong they still have their moments where some of them are quite exasperating. They’ve grown (and I’ve grown too). I have more understanding for how they are the way they are (yay flashback scenes!). Seeing how members of the main friend group choose each other over and over despite the drama really made me admire them.
December 3, 2018
Wet moon has been my favourite comic series of all time. It's so beautifully done. The art is gorgeous the characters so realistic and layered. I'm so sad this is that last volume. I've been reading this on paetron as Sophie posted the pages and it was lovely to go through it that slowly and appreciate the art so much. Then I finally got the printed copy and read that through in one go last night. It was good to see people with the endings they deserved. How they had to deal with the tragedy and still find some happiness in their lives. Now I want to go back and re-read the whole thing all over again!
January 12, 2024
Loved the previous volumes and the story as a whole, and this one being the last volume I was expecting it to finish strong, but-- didn't do it for me.
I got no closure with what happened at the last volume leaving it like that at the end, and even though we get a mention of what happens to a certain someone, it wasn't satisfying at all.
This whole volume is just 150 pages of the girls whining and crying and bitching about things over and over again, and complaining for what it could be done in 40 pages tops.. also all of the characters minus Trilby are rushing things to have closure with themselves and everyone around them.
It was ok just for the fact that I loved all 6 previous volumes and the artwork is still one of the best out there.
I got no closure with what happened at the last volume leaving it like that at the end, and even though we get a mention of what happens to a certain someone, it wasn't satisfying at all.
This whole volume is just 150 pages of the girls whining and crying and bitching about things over and over again, and complaining for what it could be done in 40 pages tops.. also all of the characters minus Trilby are rushing things to have closure with themselves and everyone around them.
It was ok just for the fact that I loved all 6 previous volumes and the artwork is still one of the best out there.
March 17, 2021
the art was drastically better!!! i LOVED these books and i am sad they’re over i would like 1000000000000 more please
July 3, 2023
I absolutely love they style of her art in this one!
The only reason it didn’t get 5 🌟 is that I still don’t know who Unknown is.
The only reason it didn’t get 5 🌟 is that I still don’t know who Unknown is.
June 25, 2019
Wet Moon has been with me since I picked it up on a whim from the shelves of the tiny comic shop, Gold Lion Comics, in Cheltenham, where I went to university. At the time I was studying Illustration and wanted to be a comic book artist, and Wet Moon gave me hope that I, too, could get a graphic novel with no real storyline published, as long as the drawings were beautiful enough and the conversations entertaining enough. And essentially, that's what the Wet Moon series is - a ramble through the love lives of a group of queer punk college students in a swampy Southern U.S. town (the eponymous Wet Moon - which, by the way, refers to a crescent moon when it appears tipped on its side in the sky. An upright, 'C'-shaped crescent moon is a dry moon), with a few hints of Twin Peaks-esque, there's-something-in-the-woods- style supernatural mystery here and there, which never really amounts to anything. If you're looking for an answer to any of those mysteries in the final volume in the series, this ain't it.
I did, however, enjoy Morning Cold, the long-awaited conclusion to a comic that re-ignited my romance with the Punk/Goth aesthetic and inspired me and my then-boyfriend to shave our hair into mohawks back in university). I finally read Morning Cold last night after I'd picked it up almost a year ago, in the midst of lending the series to a friend who was reading it for the first time, and I was so busy studying that I wasn't sure whether I'd really picked up the concluding volume (when it finally dropped in the UK November of last year after years of delays) for me or for them. Perhaps the size of the book tells you before you've opened it that you're not going to get a satisfying conclusion on the scope of the previous volumes in the series - it's a quick read and not without its flaws: the pacing feels rushed, like Campbell was never going to get to wrap up the series in the way she wanted to, and just wanted to tie things together as best she could so that the series could end (It's worth noting that Campbell has mentioned that early versions of Wet Moon took place on a space station, to give you an idea of how much the series has changed from conception to execution. But the version of Wet Moon that made it to the page works well for what it is - it's charming and there isn't really anything out there that's quite like it). There are some unexpected break-ups and romances in the conclusion that you don't see coming, none of which really have the build-up they need to breathe and have emotional impact, despite some foreshadowing that you can dig up out of previous volumes, (and, unusually for Campbell, there are moments where the dialogue is clunky). Perhaps, as in real life, these things happen for no real reason.
The exception is the friendship between Cleo and Trilby, which, in the wake of tragedy, develops an intensity that leaves the pair's romantic partners behind as the two become the most important figures in one another's lives. It's uncertain whether this is a friendship that is developing into romantic intimacy, but it feels like a realistic depiction of the platonic romance of close friendship, and I feel like it works that the book leaves it up to the reader to determine which they think is going on here. The dialogue between Cleo and Trilby about Cleo's underage relationship with her teacher made me cry, and Cleo emerges as a character as fully realised as though she could be a young woman any of us could know from our own lives. In writing this I realised that, inconclusive supernatural mysteries not withstanding, Wet Moon is predominantly a comic about it's characters' love lives, that rare thing - a romance.
I did, however, enjoy Morning Cold, the long-awaited conclusion to a comic that re-ignited my romance with the Punk/Goth aesthetic and inspired me and my then-boyfriend to shave our hair into mohawks back in university). I finally read Morning Cold last night after I'd picked it up almost a year ago, in the midst of lending the series to a friend who was reading it for the first time, and I was so busy studying that I wasn't sure whether I'd really picked up the concluding volume (when it finally dropped in the UK November of last year after years of delays) for me or for them. Perhaps the size of the book tells you before you've opened it that you're not going to get a satisfying conclusion on the scope of the previous volumes in the series - it's a quick read and not without its flaws: the pacing feels rushed, like Campbell was never going to get to wrap up the series in the way she wanted to, and just wanted to tie things together as best she could so that the series could end (It's worth noting that Campbell has mentioned that early versions of Wet Moon took place on a space station, to give you an idea of how much the series has changed from conception to execution. But the version of Wet Moon that made it to the page works well for what it is - it's charming and there isn't really anything out there that's quite like it). There are some unexpected break-ups and romances in the conclusion that you don't see coming, none of which really have the build-up they need to breathe and have emotional impact, despite some foreshadowing that you can dig up out of previous volumes, (and, unusually for Campbell, there are moments where the dialogue is clunky). Perhaps, as in real life, these things happen for no real reason.
The exception is the friendship between Cleo and Trilby, which, in the wake of tragedy, develops an intensity that leaves the pair's romantic partners behind as the two become the most important figures in one another's lives. It's uncertain whether this is a friendship that is developing into romantic intimacy, but it feels like a realistic depiction of the platonic romance of close friendship, and I feel like it works that the book leaves it up to the reader to determine which they think is going on here. The dialogue between Cleo and Trilby about Cleo's underage relationship with her teacher made me cry, and Cleo emerges as a character as fully realised as though she could be a young woman any of us could know from our own lives. In writing this I realised that, inconclusive supernatural mysteries not withstanding, Wet Moon is predominantly a comic about it's characters' love lives, that rare thing - a romance.
May 7, 2019
Somehow it completely escaped my attention that the final volume in this series came out last year -- it had been so long since the last one. Wet Moon is my kind of soap opera -- a queer goth soap opera set in the deep South -- and it's satisfying to see how everything turned out for the characters in the end. I agree with some other reviewers that it felt like a few relationships were rushed because this is the final volume and everything needed to be wrapped up by the end. But it was still a pleasure to read -- Sophie's art is beautiful. Now I need to go back & re-read all the other volumes.
December 8, 2019
I've been a fan of Sophie's for a long time—since the deviantart days. It was so nice to finally return to Wet Moon's characters, characters that I'd appreciated the company of when I was in high school. QPOC goths? Hello, thank you! I felt that while this volume isn't conclusive to some of the series' arcs, it drew us back to the characters and gave them each a soft place to land. Like Sophie says in her afterword, I'd love to see where they end up a decade later.
February 26, 2022
Wet Moon Vol. 7: Morning Cold is maintaining a garden.
January 5, 2020
I first started reading Campbell's saga about Cleo Lovedrop and her circle of friends in the Southern Town of Wet Moon in February 2019, and during the year I have taken the journey from the first volume,
Feeble Wanderings
, to the sixth volume,
Yesterday's Gone
, and now finally this concluding volume. And it has been a journey. In many senses of the word.
As I have been reading these volumes on loan from the library, I have read some (volumes 1, 2 and 4) in the new editions, credited to Sophie Campbell, and some (volumes 3, 5 and 6) in the older editions, credited to Ross Campbell. This tiny detail at first (albeit briefly) confused me, before noticing the whole thing with newer and older editions, and being keyed into Campbell's gender transition (which on many levels make a lot of sense, given the identity issues and questions of sexuality, which the characters are dealing with and going through).
What has also become apparent over time is the actual time invested in making this saga on Campbell's part. This final volume from 2018 is the only edition, and speaks to a real life gap between it and the sixth volume, which was originally published in 2012. While the series over the first six volumes develops, not only plot-wise (which it does in spades), but also in terms of style and approach (the use of blog pages, diary pages and such, which play a huge part in earlier volumes, is gradually toned down, but in a subtle manner that did not immediately cause me to notice the shift), this six-year gap is all the more noticeable.
The narrative sure enough picks up where the preceding volume left off, but there are subtle, yet visible shifts in Campbell's visual aesthetic and design of the character, which initially threw me off a little. Adding to this, there is also an element of colour previously not in the comic that also affects the visuals. But once I got over this shift, and came right back into the world of Cleo Lovedrop and her circle of friends, I just enjoyed the last leg of the journey.
Does it deliver on everything? Well, I am not sure. Campbell seems to tie up most loose ends, even if some of them does feel a bit prematurely wrapped up, and some "endings" maybe a bit on the nose or too (fairy tale) happy. But on the whole, it is an ending ... and one that pays tribute to the time spent and invested both by creator and readers.
As I have been reading these volumes on loan from the library, I have read some (volumes 1, 2 and 4) in the new editions, credited to Sophie Campbell, and some (volumes 3, 5 and 6) in the older editions, credited to Ross Campbell. This tiny detail at first (albeit briefly) confused me, before noticing the whole thing with newer and older editions, and being keyed into Campbell's gender transition (which on many levels make a lot of sense, given the identity issues and questions of sexuality, which the characters are dealing with and going through).
What has also become apparent over time is the actual time invested in making this saga on Campbell's part. This final volume from 2018 is the only edition, and speaks to a real life gap between it and the sixth volume, which was originally published in 2012. While the series over the first six volumes develops, not only plot-wise (which it does in spades), but also in terms of style and approach (the use of blog pages, diary pages and such, which play a huge part in earlier volumes, is gradually toned down, but in a subtle manner that did not immediately cause me to notice the shift), this six-year gap is all the more noticeable.
The narrative sure enough picks up where the preceding volume left off, but there are subtle, yet visible shifts in Campbell's visual aesthetic and design of the character, which initially threw me off a little. Adding to this, there is also an element of colour previously not in the comic that also affects the visuals. But once I got over this shift, and came right back into the world of Cleo Lovedrop and her circle of friends, I just enjoyed the last leg of the journey.
Does it deliver on everything? Well, I am not sure. Campbell seems to tie up most loose ends, even if some of them does feel a bit prematurely wrapped up, and some "endings" maybe a bit on the nose or too (fairy tale) happy. But on the whole, it is an ending ... and one that pays tribute to the time spent and invested both by creator and readers.
August 2, 2019
Loved this, how it ended. No spoilers or anything. I just like the tone of the ending, very sweet. It's not like this book is a big finale, more like a coda, fading out. Just a really nice end to a series that is honestly very emotional!
If you are into a comics series that features a lot of diversity, in terms of race, in terms of sexual orientation, in terms of body type, written by a trans woman, definitely check this series out. It's got a lot of goth elements and a lot of zaftig bodies. Sophie Campbell's drawing style changes pretty dramatically in each issue, but you get used to it! Also there's sex so if you don't like that, don't read these, but almost all the characters are women so it's sweet and warm and kind. <3
If you are into a comics series that features a lot of diversity, in terms of race, in terms of sexual orientation, in terms of body type, written by a trans woman, definitely check this series out. It's got a lot of goth elements and a lot of zaftig bodies. Sophie Campbell's drawing style changes pretty dramatically in each issue, but you get used to it! Also there's sex so if you don't like that, don't read these, but almost all the characters are women so it's sweet and warm and kind. <3
February 2, 2021
Después de años leyendo Wet Moon, por fin leo el final (o eso creo). Le tengo tanto cariño a esta historia, sus personajes me han acompañado desde la adolescencia, desde que empecé a leerla con las ediciones de Norma en español, que vaya si ha llovido desde entonces. Los últimos tomos los tengo en inglés (he de decir que las nuevas ediciones son preciosísimas) y bueno, se siente como un viaje lleno de cambios, de cambios de estilo en el dibujo, de cambios de mi vida, de la vida de la autora... Ha sido un placer poder formar parte de esa evolución, así que esta historia siempre estará en mi corazón. ¡Gracias a su autora por haberla sacado adelante!
May 6, 2019
I love this series so much and have followed it since the early DeviantArt days. The ambience, the beautiful diverse characters, and the strange mix of horror and slice of life is perfect for me. Sophie's art is delicious and her storytelling is somehow both spooky and comforting. There is something so life affirming about the Wet Moon series that is hard to pin down but it's definitely been an important part of my life and a treat to revisit time and time again.
November 27, 2019
Jeepers, what a ride.
While there were some storylines that didn’t get wrapped up, I really enjoyed the quiet, almost bittersweet ending.
The colours in this final volume were gorgeous. It was so lovely to see the characters come more fully to life with the touches of blue hair, pink blankets, red lipstick.
Also, Gothbro is my new favourite word
While there were some storylines that didn’t get wrapped up, I really enjoyed the quiet, almost bittersweet ending.
The colours in this final volume were gorgeous. It was so lovely to see the characters come more fully to life with the touches of blue hair, pink blankets, red lipstick.
Also, Gothbro is my new favourite word
August 22, 2021
Love
I love this book and I love Sophie. Her art has always captivated me since I first found a copy of Wet Moon hiding on a shelf at RX Comics in Vancouver, Canada. I've followed this series since the beginning, watched her art evolve and think this a wonderful close to the series.
I love this book and I love Sophie. Her art has always captivated me since I first found a copy of Wet Moon hiding on a shelf at RX Comics in Vancouver, Canada. I've followed this series since the beginning, watched her art evolve and think this a wonderful close to the series.
December 15, 2018
Excellent end to an excellent series. Wet Moon is a slice of life story for us weird, ex goth kids. Diverse and real, full if stunning characters, Wet Moon is the most relatable comic I've ever read.
February 3, 2019
I have read this series for years, and I have been waiting patiently for the last book. I think it was worth it. I really enjoyed the character growth, and I hope this will not be the last time we'll see these characters. I read this book in one sitting, and I enjoyed every minute of it.
July 9, 2019
I really loved how this series wrapped up. Everyone got a happy ending, and love. After all the turmoil and issues, everyone was okay and grew from that experience. ALSO. The art got really amazing in the last book. It was nice to see the author's style grow into something so beautiful.
December 24, 2020
This is the best book of the series. The subtle colouring and the completion of several plot points (what was with the 'Cleo eats it?') make this one a joy to read in comparison to the other darker, morbid books.
December 30, 2023
Pretty decent series about a group of friends in a southern college town (plus with several of them being queer). Also I love that Campbell out apology in the afterword for the use of the G slur a couple volumes ago, it's really nice to see that
September 10, 2025
I’m only writing one review for all of these. The art steadily just got worse. The plot was nonsensical to non existent. No in-between. There were too many characters. The diary entries were really annoying to read. The last volume was definitely the worst one. Overall 2.5 stars
November 17, 2018
What a wonderful journey! I hope this is not the end ;)
December 4, 2018
The art is so beautiful, but I have to be honest, not much happens.
December 15, 2018
I loved the art in the book in particular the tiny pops of color through out; it was a fitting farewell to all of these characters (though i hope there's a book 8 maybe some day.)
December 21, 2018
*heart eyes emoji for days*
April 11, 2019
I was happy to have an ending of this series I’ve loved for so long but it was soooooo unsatisfactory. It felt like nothing was really wrapped up or revealed.
December 10, 2019
I just binge read the heck outta this series and IM SO IN LOVE. I want more!
January 13, 2020
While I think it maybe moved a little fast and tidied things up a little much, there's so much to love about this final volume of Wet Moon that it's hard to be too bothered by that.
April 15, 2020
I didn't want this to end. I wanted to keep reading. Oh, Sophie, please. More.
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