Member Review

★☆☆☆☆ Disjointed and Disappointing

"The Woman With Fifty Faces" by Jonathan Lackman promises complexity and intrigue but delivers confusion and pretension instead. What should have been a layered exploration of identity ends up as a muddled mess of pseudo-intellectual meandering. The narrative lacks cohesion, the characters are shallow despite their supposed multiplicity, and the prose often feels more like it's trying to impress than to express. Lackman's overindulgence in metaphor and fragmented storytelling sacrifices emotional depth and clarity. By the end, I felt like I had read fifty disconnected ideas rather than a single compelling story. Hugely underwhelming. There are few mistakes as well. I the intro the Author's name was Jon Lankman and not Jon Lackman. In addition this is only sampled 99 pages and not a complete 232 pages comic book as mentioned on NetGalley or other websites. Sketchy art was good but expressions were so bad.