Lenore: The Time War #3 Review

 

Writer, Artist, Colorist & Letterer: Roman Dirge

Cover Artists: Roman Dirge & Kit Wallis

Editor: David Leach

Designer: Matt Bookman

Publisher: Titan Comics

Price: $4.99

Release Date: April 9, 2025

 

Lenore and Pooty visit Taxidermy, who looks after his subjects as Lord Taxen-Ra. After being separated by Time and Space, it takes the friends some time to catch up in 180 AD. Thankfully, the ruler of Egypt knows the god of Time and Space, which helps him understand how Pooty, Ragamuffin, and Lenore got poofed to different places. Thoth conjures a portal to Lenore and Pooty’s friend Ragamuffin, who is ebbing away from loneliness. But Pooty can't reach the portal, and Thoth can only keep it open for a short time.

 

Like Marisa Coulter, Thoth entrusts Ragamuffin with a golden compass. When the device helps Lord Taxen-Ra reunite the friends, the Time Goats triangulate their location. The goats vow to avenge their operatives' deaths. Can Lord Taxen-Ra broker peace with the rampaging Time Goats? Can Pooty take on a horde of flying goats as readily as he defeated gladiators in the Roman arena? Let’s slip on our time rings, leap into Lenore: The Time War #3, and find out!

 

 

 

Story

Ragamuffin has endured great trials, including plagues, vampire hunters, and Teletubbies. Worse, he had to sleep away the millennia until Lord Taxen-Ra excavated him. At least he has reached Lenore and Pooty in Egypt. The friends dunk Ragamuffin’s cottony body in a barrel of water to rehydrate him. But as he recovers, the Time Goats attack in Lenore: The Time War #3.

 

Six years ago, Pooty wanted to kill Lenore’s rampaging Pickle Hat. As Lenore argued with Pooty, Time Goats arrived to plead the Pickle Hat’s fate. But Lenore, Pooty, and Ragamuffin were famished because the Pickle Hat lay siege to their house. So, the friends compromised by eating the time-traveling goats.  

 

 

 

Lenore sang in a cosmic choir while her friends spent six years killing people and dinosaurs. Now, Lenore watches as others fight on her behalf. Lord Taxen-Ra proves the more effective warrior, while Pooty and Thoth think through solutions to end the war. Lenore's decision not to disturb a happy cat seemed callous in the last issue. But she emerges as a leader in Roman Dirge's final chapter, directing her friends to dangers amid attacking time goats. After her earlier failure to safeguard Ragamuffin, Lenore never leaves her friend’s side in Lenore: The Time War #3.

 

 

 

Art

A bird’s eye view shows the Nile flowing through the Giza. While the city sprawls around the Sphinx, pyramids rise in the background. As Lord Taxen-Ra, Thoth, Pooty, and Lenore listen, Ragamuffin recalls the fireball that flew past a sauropod and a pterodactyl. Then, a firestorm rages across Earth more effectively than an ancient bomb guarded by a cult of humans on a planet ruled by apes. 

 

 

 

A nearby explosion knocks the three friends off their feet while the gods remain standing. Lighting streaks across the sky as a spaceship descends. Goats in blue tracksuits fly from the cigar-shaped craft. They fire red laser beams at the people fleeing for safety between the beige pillars. Crimson sprays when Lord Taxen-Ra swings his gold and silver scythe in Lenore: The Time War #3. The colors grow more eye-catching as the Egyptian god battles the goat commander. 

 

 

 

Roman Dirge writes generously sized words into balloons, colored boxes, and backgrounds. Lenore: The Time War #3 is a throwback to an earlier era when cartoons were hand-drawn, hand-lettered, and snatched from the spinner racks by eager hands. Thanks to Titan Comics for providing a copy for review.

 

 

Final Thoughts

When the Time Goats of 3878 AD seek vengeance for their devoured comrades, they open themselves up to paradox. Lenore, Pooty, and Ragamuffin may have created this crisis, but they have gods on their side. Lenore: The Time War #3 celebrates the power of friendship and the triumph of brains over brawn, pork bellies, and tasty legs of lamb.  

 

Rating 9.2/10

 

Missed the first two issues? Need to refresh your time-traveling mind? No problem!

Check out my review of Lenore: The Time War #1.

And don't miss my review of Lenore: The Time War #2!