My Dead Girlfriend manga

In a world of horrors, Finney Bleak is the normal kid in a school, where his classmate are literally monsters and witches. Since normal is the new weird, he gets picked on by his classmates. He comes from a family whose greatest claim to fame is the manner all of them died - unnaturally and preposterously. As one of the few Bleaks who are not ghosts yet, Finney knew it was a matter of time before he joins them. [return][return]During a family trip to the travelling carnival, he meets Jenny. She is beautiful, smart and as into Finney as he is into her. Not even his parents's deaths at in the Tunnel of Love put a damper on his day. They agreed to meet, but Jenny never showed.[return][return]If you haven't already figured from the title, Jenny eventually turned up dead, randomly killed in a self-accident the day after she meets Finney at the travelling carnival. With everyone he loves becoming ghosts, will he and Jenny have a future?[return][return]”My Dead Girlfriend” strikes the right balance between the awkwardness of being a teenager and appealing to those of us who are tired of the standard teen romance fare. It's funny and weird.[return][return]Writer and artist Eric Wight is best known for being Seth Cohen's ghost (heh) artist on TV series The OC. His style is more edgy cartoon than manga, which is why I was attracted to the artwork whereas I'm normally not interested in manga. Childhood memories of bad Japanese dubs have irreparably ruined manga and anime for me for life. [return][return]This book covers Finney's background and how he and Jenny met. Nothing more than a taste of what's to come, but it's been exactly a year and 5 days since and there's no word on Volume 2. Oh, “My Dead Girlfriend” is a manga, in case I didn't make that clear earlier.