I'm a newcomer to the world of Lenore, the little dead girl of Roman Dirge's comics, but it's love at first fright. Originally published by Slave Labor Graphics, the first four issues of God knows how many have been collected in the hardcover volume LENORE: NOOGIES.
Named from the Edgar Allan Poe's poem, Lenore is a grade-school Goth girl with a dark streak, which puts her right in line with my dark heart and warped sense of humor. Her misadventures seem as if they were written just for me, starting from the first story, in which she babysits. She and the tot go to feed the birds; she leaves the birdseed with him; and, well ...
Then there's the one with the cat named Mr. Puffy, who inquisitively jumps upon a window screen and, well ... or the one in which Lenore and another girl play leap frog, only for her partner to, well ...
It's best I not give these endings away, because they all made me laugh out loud. "Sick," you may say, provided you're familiar with the material. "What's wrong with you?"
Absolutely nothing, except that it took me this long to get acquainted with Lenore. She's not for everyone, but she's A-OK with me. Never before have dead kids been this damned ... and this damned funny. —Rod LottBuy it at Amazon.
I'm a newcomer to the world of Lenore, the little dead girl of Roman Dirge's comics, but it's love at first fright. Originally published by Slave Labor Graphics, the first four issues of God knows how many have been collected in the hardcover volume LENORE: NOOGIES.
Named from the Edgar Allan Poe's poem, Lenore is a grade-school Goth girl with a dark streak, which puts her right in line with my dark heart and warped sense of humor. Her misadventures seem as if they were written just for me, starting from the first story, in which she babysits. She and the tot go to feed the birds; she leaves the birdseed with him; and, well ...
Then there's the one with the cat named Mr. Puffy, who inquisitively jumps upon a window screen and, well ... or the one in which Lenore and another girl play leap frog, only for her partner to, well ...
It's best I not give these endings away, because they all made me laugh out loud. "Sick," you may say, provided you're familiar with the material. "What's wrong with you?"
Absolutely nothing, except that it took me this long to get acquainted with Lenore. She's not for everyone, but she's A-OK with me. Never before have dead kids been this damned ... and this damned funny. —Rod Lott
Buy it at Amazon.
