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Insane Jane Omnibus by Zach Hunchar

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


There were two volumes of Insane Jane, which focuses on a mentally ill young woman with delusions of being a superhero. Volume 1 features art by Mendoza which is kind of cartoonie but is good and I thought a nice touch was his drawing of Jane in color and everything and everyone in black and white. The second volume has art by G.M.B. Chomichuk which is far more artsy and stylized. There's a sort of beauty to the art and several of the graphics are striking.

The art is really the saving grace of the collection. The story is not that good. We really get little reason to connect with the heroine. The book offers some dark humor at her expense as an attempt at deconstructing superheroes. The big plot twist in the first volume was something I guessed half way through. Yet, the same premise was essentially first reused in the second volume as well as another bonus comic with a character slightly different from Jane who does the exact same things.

So overall, I found this book unpleasant, dark, hopeless, and repetitive. Cannot recommend at all.





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