Roman Dirge, �Something at the Window is Scratching�
Roman Dirge seems determined to take over the void left by the absence of Jhonen Vasquez since he went off to make cartoons for Nickelodeon, and apparently he�s succeeding. His comic, Lenore is apparently starting to surpass sales of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac though don�t ask me how I know that.
I�ve never really cared for him. In fact, I consider him a cheap knock off of Vasquez, stealing his art style, his mood, and even some of his jokes. And like most knock-offs, he doesn�t do it very well. So when this first came into the store I looked at it for a moment, and then left it on the shelf for some other poor sap to purchase.
But nobody did, and I apparently forgot my own decision, eventually buying it for myself, though I�m not positive this is the same copy. In any case, I kind of wish I had left it on the shelf, now that I�m finished with it. Dirge, in his own author bio, mentions that Tim Burton�s personal comments about his drawings made him decide to try and continue with art as a profession.
I guess it shouldn�t come as a surprise that this is nothing more than a cheap knock off of Burton�s own book of whacked out short stories that are supposedly for children. After all, if you�re going to rip off somebody, why not aim high?
Unfunny, uninspiring, unoriginal. When I decided I was going to read trash, I didn�t know how bad trash could be. Perhaps I need to rethink this strategy.
