I meant to read this in one day, but it felt like it took me forever. (Maybe I'm turning into a snail person?)

The good:
- The art.
- Some really creepy body horror moments, especially in the early chapters.

The bad:
- The characters don't act like people. There's no clear motivation for what they do, especially staying in town. (Yeah, it's sort of explained right at the end of the book, but that explanation feels too late and too insufficient.) They don't change or grow in convincing ways, and I spent almost all of the book wanting to shake most of them.
- Junji Ito never satisfactorily explains why any of the spiraling creepiness is happening. Episodic chapters add up to a disjointed story of WTF-ery that never really coalesces into anything substantial.

I had seen so many isolated, eerie panels around the Internet over the years that, when I realized we had it in my library system, I had to read it. I'm not upset that I did, but I wasn't that impressed, either.

That said, I need a SFX makeup artist to do a look based on the spiral forehead chapter.