My Dead Girlfriend
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My Dead Girlfriend is an original English-language manga
written and illustrated by Eric Wight
, published by Tokyopop
. The first volume "A Tryst Of Fate" came out Valentines Day 2007. It has received positive reviews from the likes of Joss Whedon
, Jeph Loeb
and Meg Cabot.
Phineas "Finney" Bleak
April, May, and June Bleak
Lester Bleak and his wife
Cornelius Bleak
Archibald Bleak
Orville Bleak
Margaret Bleak
Mookie Bleak
The Deadbeats
The Glindas
The Aberzombies
The Lab Monkeys
The Invertebrates
The Foreign Exchange
Stanley
Vice Principal Blackheart
Jenny Wraith
Original English-language manga
Original English-language manga or OEL manga is the term commonly used to describe comic books or graphic novels in the "international manga" genre of comics whose language of original publication is English...
written and illustrated by Eric Wight
Eric Wight
Eric Wight is a professional artist, illustrator and animator. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts and currently lives in Eastern Pennsylvania.-Overview:Wight is the author of the manga, My Dead Girlfriend...
, published by Tokyopop
Tokyopop
Tokyopop, styled TOKYOPOP, and formerly known as Mixx, is a distributor, licensor, and publisher of anime, manga, manhwa, and Western manga-style works. The existing German publishing division produces German translations of licensed Japanese properties and original English-language manga, as well...
. The first volume "A Tryst Of Fate" came out Valentines Day 2007. It has received positive reviews from the likes of Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon
Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon is an American screenwriter, executive producer, director, comic book writer, occasional composer and actor, founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-creator of Bellwether Pictures...
, Jeph Loeb
Jeph Loeb
Joseph "Jeph" Loeb III is an American film and television writer, producer and award-winning comic book writer. Loeb was a producer/writer on the TV series Smallville and Lost, writer for the films Commando and Teen Wolf and was a writer and Co-Executive Producer on the NBC TV show Heroes from its...
and Meg Cabot.
Volumes
- Wight, Eric. My Dead Girlfriend, volume 1. Tokyopop. 6 February 2007. ISBN 978-1-59816-996-6
The Bleaks
The Bleak bloodline has an abnormal legacy, its extremely odd deaths.Phineas "Finney" Bleak
- The protagonist of the story and one of the four breathing Bleaks (besides Mookie), he was very depressed during the last three months before the first novel started because of a recent breakup. He had been "seriously debating the pros and cons of breathing" because he thought it didn't matter, seeing as he knew that the final fate of all was death. At school, he is one of the few not in a social circle. He is singled out because he is the only "normal" person in the school. He's a loner.
April, May, and June Bleak
- Conjoined triplets who are Finney's older sisters, known to him as the Trouble Trifecta. They are the other three living Bleaks besides Finney (not including Mookie).
Lester Bleak and his wife
- Finney and the triplets' parents, they died by being electrocuted in the tunnel of love. The mom has yet to be named.
Cornelius Bleak
- A pirate captain who was shot, stabbed, flambéed, and devoured by a great white shark before finally dying. He originally foresaw his death in a series of premonitions, but pushed his luck by giving up his seafaring life...after one last voyage. Alas his crew (rather sick of him) mutiniedMutinyMutiny is a conspiracy among members of a group of similarly situated individuals to openly oppose, change or overthrow an authority to which they are subject...
and in the process of trying to end his life with a gunshot (rather than be thrown overboard...where he'd surely be consumed)...ignited their barrels of gunpowder...with fatal explosive results. This current cruise being their final one...for the entire onboard occupants period.
Archibald Bleak
- A zookeeper who was killed by two tons of manure while washing the backside of a constipated elephant. It was undetermined which killed him: being crushed or suffocated.
Orville Bleak
- A self-proclaimed inventor who tried to cross the Atlantic in a lawn chair suspended by 837 inflated balloons. He miscalculated the amount of helium in each of the balloons, disappeared into the sky, and was never seen again.
Margaret Bleak
- A magician's assistant who was sawed in half after her jealous illusionist husband discovered she was performing her "sleight of hand" with a rival magician.
Mookie Bleak
- The family pet, who happens to be a gargoyle. He behaves like a puppy but looks more like crossbreed between canineCanidaeCanidae is the biological family of carnivorous and omnivorous mammals that includes wolves, foxes, jackals, coyotes, and domestic dogs. A member of this family is called a canid . The Canidae family is divided into two tribes: Canini and Vulpini...
and demonic creature, still Finney and his sisters can look past the fearsome beast and see the cute animal within. He's got plenty to say with expression and pantomimePantomimePantomime — not to be confused with a mime artist, a theatrical performer of mime—is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the...
.
Mephisto Prep
Social circles are listed below.The Deadbeats
- At the top of the evolutionary ladder, the Deadbeats rule the school with a heavy dose of scare tactics and humiliation. It has four members.
- Drake Rippinngton- a vampire who is the leader of Deadbeats and thus, the student dictator of the school.
- Karl Steinman- a FrankensteinFrankensteinFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...
-like monster who is the enforcer of the Deadbeats. Also see Stanley. - Hank Palmer- A werewolf gangster complete with gold chain necklace with dollar sign attached.
- Floyd Gillman- A Creature from the Black LagoonCreature from the Black LagoonCreature from the Black Lagoon is a 1954 monster horror film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, and Whit Bissell. The eponymous creature was played by Ben Chapman on land and Ricou Browning in underwater scenes...
who only makes gurgles when he talks.
The Glindas
- These witches push potions like amphetamines. Want to be thin? Need to ace a test? Feel like parting with your soul? The Glindas are one-stop shopping. They are led by Salamander Mugwort.
The Aberzombies
- Undead kids who take non-conformity to such an extreme that they must conform to each other or be harshly ridiculed. (Reference to Emos, one of the many pop culture references hidden throughout the book.)
The Lab Monkeys
- Mad scientists who each could build a flux capacitor before their seventh birthday.
The Invertebrates
- These spineless blobs will do anything because of peer pressure.
The Foreign Exchange
- Kids from another planet, not another country.
Stanley
- A mummy of an unknown social circle who usually is at the receiving ends of Karl's bullying.
Vice Principal Blackheart
- A no-nonsense devil, she is blonde-haired, fair-skinned, and has two white horns growing out of her head.
Jenny Wraith
- Object of desire for Finney, they met at a fun fair and instantly connected, with it being love at first sight for Jenny. Unfortunately, soon after they parted; jealous Death saw fit to throw a metaphorical spanner into the works vis-a-vis their relationship via Jenny accidentally falling down a rabbit hole and presumably dying, thus finding herself to be non-corporeal. Knowing how he (Finney) despised ghosts due to his troublesome spirit relatives, she has only recently revealed to him her current situation. She now resides at Mephisto Middle School and struggles to overcome the obstacles of being dead and how they affect her blossoming romance with Finney.