Lenore kills her admirer again by repeatedly throwing knives at his head. Gosh returns from the grave to express his love to Lenore despite the fact that she has previously murdered him many times. When Taxidermy returns, Lenore gives him Malakai back, which seems to have been crushed, and says that it was "No Trouble". After poking it, the creature runs through the house. Lenore meets her neighbor, Taxidermy, who wants her to take care of his pet, Malakai. Later, the dead frog is driven to a hospital. Remembering her mother's advice, she puts it in a summer dress and tries to feed it chicken soup (with a live chicken) much to Ragamuffin's bemusement. Lenore finds a dead frog that she believes is just sick. Her involvement causes the death of the magician. Although distraught at first, he starts to settle into this new lifestyle.Ī magician attempts a dangerous trick and picks Lenore as a volunteer from the audience. As her blood has been mixed with embalming fluid, Ragamuffin realises that he will remain a doll forever. After killing his last victim, he was cursed by her sister. ![]() The doll, known as Ragamuffin, explains that 100 years ago, he was a vampire. However, when she cut herself, a drop of blood falls onto the doll, which gains consciousness. While searching through her toy collection, Lenore finds a rag doll which she attempts to sew up. After telling the manager that they are all "broken", she walks out while the manager looks at the hamsters himself and vomits. Looking for a squeeze toy, Lenore walks into a pet shop, where she "accidentally" kills some hamsters. "Dirge" also happens to be the pseudonymous surname of Lenore's creator. Īll films begin with a line from Edgar Allan Poe's Lenore: "A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young". Any other website distributing these is doing so without Sony's permission, although Dirge has given permission for people to distribute them as they see fit. A recurring comic strip called "Things Involving Me" tells about the author's life and experience in an exaggerated, semiautobiographical manner.Ī series of 2-4 minute shorts was created for Sony's website ScreenBlast. The comic also featured various one-time side stories (one of these characters, Samurai Sloth, is set to star in his own series) and occasionally guest strips from other artists (with Jhonen Vasquez being the most frequent ). All of this results in Lenore being an enigma due to her at times thinking that she is doing good with a meaning to do good and at other times wanting to do something more along the lines of being evil. This results in most of her friends (except for Mr. To further question this, it should also be mentioned that whenever Lenore gets really upset or angry, she can be very violent and often takes her anger out on whoever made her angry even if it is one of her friends. When she is asked of what her dream is, she replies that it is to rule the world. ![]() She often thinks she is doing good and occasionally shows good intentions, although in later issues the character has shown a change in personality. Lenore's actions often result in the death or injury to those around her and in various forms of chaos. In one story, for instance, Lenore accidentally kills the Easter Bunny. Common themes are the reinvention of children's songs, games, and nursery rhymes to something more macabre, and subverting all sorts of pop culture icons and cultural figures into topics of dark comedy. The primary focus of the graphic novel is dark humor, with many of the stories having twist endings. The story takes place in a small town called Nevermore (taking its name from " The Raven", another of Poe's poems) and the surrounding wilderness where Lenore's mansion and a nearby graveyard are situated. The comic tells of the unlife and adventures of the title character and her similarly odd (if not odder) friends. On 31 July 2013, Lenore Volume II #8 was released, marking the start of a plotline that continued for six issues. ![]() Previous issues were made into colored edition trade paperback called Lenore Volume I, which is separated into three books. In July 2009, a new comic series started, now published by Titan Books and called Lenore Volume II. Twenty-six flash-animated shorts were also produced for Sony's ScreenBlast website in 2002. From 1998 to 2007, she featured in her own series published by Slave Labor Graphics. Lenore has appeared in several comic books by Dirge. Lenore, The Cute Little Dead Girl is a black comedy comic series created by Roman Dirge, inspired by the poem " Lenore" by Edgar Allan Poe.
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