For The Love of Reviews - Lenore, Vol. 2, Issue 1

For The Love of Reviews – Lenore, Vol. 2, Issue 1

Dustin Christian | September 21, 2009 | 3:13 pm

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The Good: Roman Dirge’s new publisher, Titan Books, sent me a free review copy of Lenore’s return.

The (sorta) Bad: I’m sure Titan would have liked me to review the issue before it hit stands, but it only arrived from England this weekend. Sorry guys!

Back when I was a kiddie goth and into independent comics, I was always more of a Jonny The Homicidal Maniac guy; Lenore was more my sister’s style. Since then, I’ve moved away from my goth tendencies and seeing Lenore stuff prominently featured whenever I walk by a Hot Topic left me somewhat skeptical before I even received the comic.

After reading this issue, though… well, it’s still really not my thing but I can still appreciate the artwork and the appeal of the black, somewhat corny and over-the-top humor. What really impresses me is that Roman Dirge does the whole thing (writing, drawing, and coloring) himself and still maintains a pretty high standard of output.

In this first issue of Lenore and Dirge’s return, we learn her (apparently secret until now) origin story when she wakes up on a mortician’s embalming table. As you may expect, hilarity ensues.

It’s hard for me to really give an opinion on this. Will I be reading any more of this series? Almost certainly not. Should you? If you enjoyed the original Lenore series, JTHM, The original Ren & Stimpy, current cartoons Flapjack, Fairly Oddparents, and things along those lines, definitely. If not? I’d give it a skip.