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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
Hung's art is amazing in this book. Story is interesting and entertaining enough but could have done more in a volume.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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I really enjoy the psychological mystery aspect of it, and the other fashion bloggers are adorably hilarious. can't wait to pick up volume 2!
Picked this up because the art and title intrigued me. I really do enjoy the art in this series, however, I do not find a single character likable. It reminds me of kids born in the late 90s/ early 00s who were raised on "reality" tv...where narcissism, callousness, and superficiality is the uncontested norm. Not only does in make for a disconcerting read, it's downright depressing. Fashion and looks can be cool and fun, but every character in this story is shallow and repugnant. I kept waiting for there to be a turn-around point in the story, and maybe it's still coming...but I guess that would be pretty boring and predictable at this point. So what is the point then? Bratty woman goes on mental-illness fueled detective story about herself? blah.
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
im obsessed with this art and the different color palettes, maybe my favorite??
Meh. So much meh. Haven't been this disappointed by a creator whose work I'd loved up until now, but this might be Brian Lee O'Malley's worst creation to date. The artwork is decent, which is about all I can really say positively about it. Aside from that, though, the story is empty and difficult to care about. Not sure if it's supposed to be satire or if it's meant to be read straight, but either way it mostly comes off as irritating and shallow. Yeah, I get it, there's some weird supernatural/hallucinatory elements blah blah blah. Snotgirl and her posse make it impossible to care about if it's real or not.
There's a certain trend to Bryan Lee O'Malley's characters that I've noticed in my many re-reads of the Scott Pilgrim series and in Snotgirl (I've only read Seconds the once, so I'm not sure it applies there). Scott and Lottie are both energetic, emotional people whose empathy is, let's say, largely unpracticed with terrible memories - they are not necessarily bad people, but they need to put a lot of work in to do good. Essentially, this means that although the settings are very different the feel, humour, and characterisation in Snotgirl are similar enough to Scott Pilgrim that I suspect if you like one, you'd like the other.
"Snotgirl" herself is Lottie Person, fashion blogger and social media superstar, whose professional persona obscures the fact that she has a great many allergies and her nose is always running. A fill-in doctor prescribes her a new experimental allergy medicine that really kicks off the action, leading Lottie to inadvertently murder someone - or does it? I have to say, I found the plot meandering and (intentionally) confusing; but that mattered less to me than the energy and humour in the telling. We spend most of the story deep in Lottie's head, and she is as confused about what's happening as anyone. But this also means that we can only understand the other characters' motivations as Lottie does, and in her world of fashion blogging their identities are just as constructed as Lottie's. This volume collects only the first five parts of a story that could go on much longer, but it is already a solid, somewhat lighthearted thriller.
I really enjoyed Leslie Hung's art; although I suspect that a lot of my enjoyment is largely down to Mickey Quinn's colouring, which I want to describe as "garish", but in a positive way. They add a vibrancy to the story that less-good colouring might have removed. The alternate covers by O'Malley himself (with Nathan Fairbairn and Jason Fischer) show what this might've been had he done the art himself (although I cannot figure out what Lottie should be in a pilot uniform for issue 4?); but that, perhaps, would have been too close to Scott Pilgrim, while Leslie Hung gives Snotgirl it's own feel.
"Snotgirl" herself is Lottie Person, fashion blogger and social media superstar, whose professional persona obscures the fact that she has a great many allergies and her nose is always running. A fill-in doctor prescribes her a new experimental allergy medicine that really kicks off the action, leading Lottie to inadvertently murder someone - or does it? I have to say, I found the plot meandering and (intentionally) confusing; but that mattered less to me than the energy and humour in the telling. We spend most of the story deep in Lottie's head, and she is as confused about what's happening as anyone. But this also means that we can only understand the other characters' motivations as Lottie does, and in her world of fashion blogging their identities are just as constructed as Lottie's. This volume collects only the first five parts of a story that could go on much longer, but it is already a solid, somewhat lighthearted thriller.
I really enjoyed Leslie Hung's art; although I suspect that a lot of my enjoyment is largely down to Mickey Quinn's colouring, which I want to describe as "garish", but in a positive way. They add a vibrancy to the story that less-good colouring might have removed. The alternate covers by O'Malley himself (with Nathan Fairbairn and Jason Fischer) show what this might've been had he done the art himself (although I cannot figure out what Lottie should be in a pilot uniform for issue 4?); but that, perhaps, would have been too close to Scott Pilgrim, while Leslie Hung gives Snotgirl it's own feel.
medium-paced