Snotgirl #2 Review

Writer: Bryan Lee O’Malley / Artist: Leslie Hung / Image Comics I want to like this comic more than I do. When I began Snotgirl I was looking for an indie that took a seemingly shallow person, with a seemingly shallow life, and looked closer to reveal a depth that we write off because we often prove to be shallow ourselves. I was hoping to find a character in Lottie who was meant to be unlikable but who actually proved to be easy to empathize with once you take the time to get to know her – similar, often, to those in real life who, if we’re honest with ourselves, we never gave an honest chance. I was looking to love this comic and find insight into a world I admittedly avoid as materialistic and fundamentally different from the type of person I am. Unfortunately, Snotgirl is not that comic for me yet. A twist ending bought us in after issue #1, which was one of the few parts of Snotgirl I found myself actually interested in after the initial intrigue of the series wore off. It was trippy, and could lend itself to a mystical issue #2 that played with reality and turned Snotgirl in a direction that few of us would have seen coming. It does that in issue #2 – partly – but not before falling into the mistakes that made the series premiere disappointing: an unlikable character with unlikable friends in an unlikable culture that has yet to show its charm.

The plot doesn’t thicken in issue #2, but rather stews in the same tenor of issue #1 with minimal plot development and moderat…