For a story focusing on 'haunted' people, these were some awfully shallow characters. While I personally found both girls painfully boring and unlikable, the most insulting part of Ghost World is how the reader is actually meant to feel a connection to these characters that is never developed or earned.

I've met plenty of 'haunted' adolescents, and hell I've been one myself, but I have yet to meet a person with so little to them than Enid and Becky. Even most cynical and irrational people I've had the misfortune of meeting had a pathos one could empathize with more than what's displayed here. After finishing the book I read that Clowes intentionally chose teenage girls as his protagonists because he felt they would allow him to insert his own controversial opinions with less outcry, a statement that does not surprise me in the least.

The only thing I found truly relevant about this comic is how readers tend to adore it for embracing cynicism and rotten attitudes, even while genuine empathy and passion continue to be undervalued and therefore more subversive than a piece like this could ever be.