A review by thevampiremars
Cynosure by Jessica Peng

emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

3.5

I am cruel to this woman, for no real reason. Perhaps we both needed a goal.

At first I took this comic at face value, and I projected my own assumptions about how a story/conflict is supposed to play out. I thought it felt incomplete, lacking. But the ending recontextualised everything and gave me pause, so I reread the whole thing.

Two women torment each other just because – they’re both trapped in a shitty situation and don’t know what else to do. Instead of a typical violent climax where one triumphs over the other, they break the cycle and learn to forgive/be forgiven.

I still think it feels incomplete; more could have been done to build tension before that resolution. That said, I really appreciate what this comic does <3