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''Jennifer Blood'' is a [[ScheduleSlip monthly-ish]], mature-audiences-only comic from Dynamite Entertainment, written by GarthEnnis, Creator/GarthEnnis, Al Ewing, Mike Carroll, and Steven Grant with a rotating cast of artists, and is intended as a black comedy. Its original run ended with issue #36 in February 2014, with a new volume, ''Born Again'', premiering in August 2014.
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''Jennifer Blood'' is a [[ScheduleSlip monthly-ish]], mature-audiences-only comic from Dynamite Entertainment, written by GarthEnnis, Al Ewing, and Mike Carroll Carroll, and Steven Grant with a rotating cast of artists, and is intended as a black comedy. It Its original run ended with issue #36 in February 2014, with a new volume, ''Born Again'', premiering in August 2014.
* CrazyPrepared: Jenny's very fond of planting charges ahead of time to secure her escape routes.
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* DarkActionGirl: Jenny's not a particularly likable protagonist, but she's fetched up somewhere between Franchise/{{Batman}} and ThePunisher.
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* {{Gorn}}: Its a Garth Ennis comic. It isn't really surprising.
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* {{Gorn}}: Its It's a Garth Ennis comic. It isn't really surprising.
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* MoodDissonance: Ennis's initial six-issue run on the book is an action story with occasional humor. Al Ewing, on the other hand, wrote something that reads a lot like a really violent Carl Hiaasen novel, with multiple coexisting plotlines and an eccentric cast of characters. So far, Mike Carroll is writing the book as a straight-up crime novel, with Jenny [[spoiler: on the run from the police after escaping prison]].
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* MoodDissonance: Ennis's initial six-issue run on the book is an action story with occasional humor. Al Ewing, on the other hand, wrote something that reads a lot like a really violent Carl Hiaasen novel, with multiple coexisting plotlines and an eccentric cast of characters. So far, Finally, Mike Carroll Carroll's run is writing the book as a straight-up crime novel, globe-spanning action movie with Jenny [[spoiler: as the villain of the piece, dealing with her family's European relatives and on the run from the police after escaping prison]].FBI.
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''Jennifer Blood'' is a [[ScheduleSlip monthly-ish]], mature-audiences-only comic from Dynamite Entertainment, written by GarthEnnis, Al Ewing, and Mike Carroll with a rotating cast of artists, and is intended as a black comedy.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Varla seems to have wandered into this story from a cyberpunk novel or something. She can cleave a man's skull in half with a one-armed swing from her katana.
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* InTheBlood: Pruitt's theory on Jenny is that despite her own stated desires, the craziness that made her uncles monsters is still well active in her. She may ''want'' to be normal, but between her training and her trauma, every attempt she makes to do so is doomed to failure.
* MoodDissonance: Ennis's initial six-issue run on the book is essentially an action story with occasional humor. Al Ewing, on the other hand, is writing what reads a lot like a really violent Carl Hiaasen novel, with multiple coexisting plotlines and an eccentric cast of characters.
* MoodDissonance: Ennis's initial six-issue run on the book is essentially an action story with occasional humor. Al Ewing, on the other hand, is writing what reads a lot like a really violent Carl Hiaasen novel, with multiple coexisting plotlines and an eccentric cast of characters.
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* InTheBlood: Pruitt's theory on Jenny is that despite her own stated desires, the craziness that made her uncles monsters is still well active in her. She may ''want'' to be normal, but between her training and her trauma, every attempt she makes to do so is doomed to failure.
failure. This theory has been advanced in later issues with the strong suggestion that being a member of the Blute family at all means you're at least predisposed towards sociopathy.
* MoodDissonance: Ennis's initial six-issue run on the book isessentially an action story with occasional humor. Al Ewing, on the other hand, is writing what wrote something that reads a lot like a really violent Carl Hiaasen novel, with multiple coexisting plotlines and an eccentric cast of characters.characters. So far, Mike Carroll is writing the book as a straight-up crime novel, with Jenny [[spoiler: on the run from the police after escaping prison]].
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Jenny is a housewife. Her husband is a college professor and an avid birdwatcher, her children are unremarkable, and her neighborhood is a suburb like many others across the continental United States.
Every night, however, Jenny puts her husband and children to sleep with drugged hot chocolate, puts on a black wig and a black coverall, arms herself from a well-maintained arsenal she has hidden in the tool shed, and goes out to kill every mobster she can find.
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Jenny is a housewife. Her husband is a college professor and an avid birdwatcher, her children are unremarkable, and her neighborhood is a suburb like many others across the continental United States.
States. Every night, however, Jenny puts her husband and children to sleep with drugged hot chocolate, puts on a black wig and a black coverall, arms herself from a well-maintained arsenal she has hidden in the tool shed, and goes out to kill every mobster she can find.
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* DarkActionGirl: Jenny's not a particularly likable protagonist, but she's fetched up somewhere between {{Batman}} and ThePunisher.
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''Jennifer Blood'' is a [[ScheduleSlip monthly-ish]], mature-audiences-only comic from Dynamite Entertainment, written by GarthEnnis GarthEnnis, Al Ewing, and Al Ewing Mike Carroll with a rotating cast of artists, and is intended as a black comedy.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Salazar's really one of the nicest drug dealers in the history of fiction.
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Spin-off miniseries include ''The Ninjettes'', a prequel featuring some one-off antagonists from issue #4, and ''First Blood'', a story set during the period of time when Jenny was training for her initial run at her uncles.
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* InTheBlood: Pruitt's theory on Jenny is that despite her own stated desires, the craziness that made her uncles monsters is still well active in her. She may ''want'' to be normal, but between her training and her trauma, every attempt she makes to do so is doomed to failure.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Varla seems to have wandered into this story from a cyberpunk novel or something. She can cleave a man's skull in half with a one-armed swing from her katana.
* BecomingTheMask: Ennis's initial run is about Jenny's attempts to juggle her idyllic suburban life with her mission of revenge against her uncles. When Al Ewing takes over the book, that juggling act begins to fail almost immediately, as does Jenny's image of herself.
* ChivalrousPervert: Ray Buwick seems like the ''last'' guy you'd want to leave a couple of preteens alone with, but compared to just about every other adult in the book, he's probably the nicest guy of the lot. [[spoiler: After the bloodbath in issue #22, he's arguably kinder to Jenny's kids than ''Jenny'' is.]]
* ChivalrousPervert: Ray Buwick seems like the ''last'' guy you'd want to leave a couple of preteens alone with, but compared to just about every other adult in the book, he's probably the nicest guy of the lot. [[spoiler: After the bloodbath in issue #22, he's arguably kinder to Jenny's kids than ''Jenny'' is.]]
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* CoversAlwaysLie: If you went by the covers of each issue, you'd think Jenny used sex as a weapon a lot more often than she actually does. In truth, she uses her own boobs as a distraction tactic once in the first issue, but that's about it.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: If you went by the covers of each issue, you'd think Jenny used sex as a weapon a lot more often than she actually does. In truth, she uses her own boobs as a distraction tactic once in the first issue, but that's about it. The alternate covers often show her gunfighting in her underwear, which never happens in the actual book.
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* DarkActionGirl: Jenny's not a particularly likable heroine, but she's fetched up somewhere between {{Batman}} and ThePunisher.
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* SpinOff: The Ninjettes have, for whatever reason, received their own limited series, which covers their training and background. This is presumably at least partially meant to lend characterization and background to Skyler's father Oshiro, who's currently one of the major antagonists of Ewing's run, and to set up Kelly's unwilling mentor Varla for a future role in the main book.
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* SpinOff: The Ninjettes have, for whatever reason, received their own limited series, which covers their training and background. This is presumably at least partially meant to lend characterization and background to Skyler's father Oshiro, who's currently one of the major antagonists of Ewing's run, and to set sets up Kelly's unwilling mentor Varla for a future role her appearances later in the main book.
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* VillainProtagonist: It's difficult to argue that Jenny is not, at bare minimum, a sociopath. Even the husband and children she's so fond of don't seem to play a huge role in her internal monologue, although it may simply be that she's not capable of being very demonstrative towards loved ones. Alternatively, since the first series covers her attempts to settle scores with her enemies over the course of an entire week, she could just be intentionally narrowing her focus heavily on the 'mission' so as to get it done without screwing up.
** She does say her family makes everything worthwhile and clearly loves them... at times. Her emotional blackmail of her son and how disparaging she can be towards them are different issues. It's less that Jenny is a sociopath and more that she is an utterly terrible human being.
** And now that she's stepped up to [[spoiler: murdering a married couple just because of the wife's emotional attachment to Jenny's husband, as well as murdering her ''own'' husband just because he called her out on her actions and threatened to go to the police]], she's now crossed the line from vigilante to [[spoiler: straight-up homicidal maniac.]]
*** And at this point, she's [[spoiler: killed about as many innocent people as she has criminals, one or two for pretty much no reason.]]
** She does say her family makes everything worthwhile and clearly loves them... at times. Her emotional blackmail of her son and how disparaging she can be towards them are different issues. It's less that Jenny is a sociopath and more that she is an utterly terrible human being.
** And now that she's stepped up to [[spoiler: murdering a married couple just because of the wife's emotional attachment to Jenny's husband, as well as murdering her ''own'' husband just because he called her out on her actions and threatened to go to the police]], she's now crossed the line from vigilante to [[spoiler: straight-up homicidal maniac.]]
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* VillainProtagonist: It's difficult to argue that Jenny is not, at bare minimum, a sociopath. Even the husband and children she's so fond of don't seem to play a huge role in her internal monologue, although it may simply be that she's not capable of being very demonstrative towards loved ones. Alternatively, since the first series covers her attempts to settle scores with her enemies devolves over the course of an entire week, she could just be intentionally narrowing her focus heavily on the 'mission' so as book from a particularly vicious brand of anti-heroine to get it done without screwing up.
** She does say her family makes everything worthwhilean outright sociopath, culminating in #18 and clearly loves them... at times. Her emotional blackmail of her son and how disparaging she can be towards them are different issues. It's less that Jenny is a sociopath and more that she is an utterly terrible human being.
** And now that she's stepped up to#19 [[spoiler: murdering when she goes on a married couple just because of rampage through her neighborhood and then across the wife's emotional attachment to Jenny's husband, as well as murdering her ''own'' husband just because he called her out on her actions United States, holding up gas stations for money and threatened to go to the police]], she's now crossed the line from vigilante to [[spoiler: straight-up homicidal maniac.]]
*** And at this point, she's [[spoiler: killed about as many innocent people as she has criminals, one or two for pretty muchleaving no reason.survivors.]]
** She does say her family makes everything worthwhile
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** And now that she's stepped up to [[spoiler: murdering a married couple just because of the wife's emotional attachment to Jenny's husband, as well as murdering her own ''own'' husband just because he called her out on her actions and threatened to go to the police]], she's now crossed the line from vigilante to [[spoiler: straight-up homicidal maniac.]]
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* AsianAirhead: the Ninjettes.
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* EekAMouse: When cornered by the musclehead neighbor who seems to think she has the hots for him, Jenny screams that there's a mouse, [[TeenyWeenie with a very tiny pink tail]], causing all the other houseguests to come running.
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* ImagineSpot: Jennifer imagines what she could do to the new neighbor who wants her to suck his dick, including slamming his head on the barbecue or drowning him in the toilet.
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* CompleteMonster: The Blute brothers. [[spoiler: Jenny has indisputably crossed into this now.]]
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* CycleOfRevenge: Jenny finishes her original mission by the end of issue #6. The subsequent plotline involves the fallout from it, which includes the angry father of one of the Ninjettes.
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* HighlyVisibleNinja: The Ninjettes from issue #4 are a trio of bored young upper-class Asian girls trading on the ninja stereotype in order to get their feet in the door as professional assassins.
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* Gorn: Its a Garth Ennis comics. It isnt isn't really suprising.surprising.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: The Ninjettes from issue #4 are a trio of bored young upper-class Asian girls trading on the ninja stereotype in order to get their feet in the door as professional assassins. [[spoiler: They last about three pages once they actually run into Jenny. Hell, one of the variant covers of ''their own book'' is of Jenny standing over their dismembered corpses.]]
* MoodDissonance: Ennis's initial six-issue run on the book is essentially an action story with occasional humor. Al Ewing, on the other hand, is writing what reads a lot like a really violent Carl Hiaasen novel, with multiple coexisting plotlines and an eccentric cast of characters.
** Varla, Daisy, and Darlene, a trio of disgraced hitwomen introduced in the ''Ninjettes'' spin-off, are exactly the kind of Hollywood action heroines that Jenny is a deliberate counterpoint to. Where Jenny is competent, thorough, and professional, Varla's idea of a clean hit is chopping a guy in half through a hotel room door, then setting the hotel on fire.
* RefugeInVulgarity: Al Ewing is more fond of toilet humor than Garth Ennis ever was.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: The Ninjettes from issue #4 are a trio of bored young upper-class Asian girls trading on the ninja stereotype in order to get their feet in the door as professional assassins. [[spoiler: They last about three pages once they actually run into Jenny. Hell, one of the variant covers of ''their own book'' is of Jenny standing over their dismembered corpses.]]
* MoodDissonance: Ennis's initial six-issue run on the book is essentially an action story with occasional humor. Al Ewing, on the other hand, is writing what reads a lot like a really violent Carl Hiaasen novel, with multiple coexisting plotlines and an eccentric cast of characters.
** Varla, Daisy, and Darlene, a trio of disgraced hitwomen introduced in the ''Ninjettes'' spin-off, are exactly the kind of Hollywood action heroines that Jenny is a deliberate counterpoint to. Where Jenny is competent, thorough, and professional, Varla's idea of a clean hit is chopping a guy in half through a hotel room door, then setting the hotel on fire.
* RefugeInVulgarity: Al Ewing is more fond of toilet humor than Garth Ennis ever was.
* SpinOff: The Ninjettes have, for whatever reason, received their own limited series, which covers their training and background. This is presumably at least partially meant to lend characterization and background to Skyler's father Oshiro, who's currently one of the major antagonists of Ewing's run, and to set up Kelly's unwilling mentor Varla for a future role in the main book.
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* VillainProtagonist: It's difficult to argue that Jenny is not, at bare minimum, a sociopath. Even the husband and children she's so fond of don't seem to play a huge role in her internal monologue, although it may simply be that she's not capable of being very demonstrative towards loved ones.
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* VillainProtagonist: It's difficult to argue that Jenny is not, at bare minimum, a sociopath. Even the husband and children she's so fond of don't seem to play a huge role in her internal monologue, although it may simply be that she's not capable of being very demonstrative towards loved ones. Alternatively, since the first series covers her attempts to settle scores with her enemies over the course of an entire week, she could just be intentionally narrowing her focus heavily on the 'mission' so as to get it done without screwing up.
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Jenny is a housewife. Her husband is a college professor and an avid birdwatcher, her children are unremarkable, and her neighborhood is a suburb like many others across the continental United States.
Every night, however, Jenny puts her husband and children to sleep with drugged hot chocolate, puts on a black wig and a black coverall, arms herself from a well-maintained arsenal she has hidden in the tool shed, and goes out to kill every mobster she can find.
Jenny's real name is Jessica Blute, and years ago, her father and uncles ruled an entire city by fear, before her uncles turned on and killed her father. She's spent the intervening years in training, and now she's out to return the favor.
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* CombatPragmatist: How does one woman, however well-trained or -funded she might be, manage to kill off entire housefuls of armed gangsters? ''Any way she can.''
* CoversAlwaysLie: If you went by the covers of each issue, you'd think Jenny used sex as a weapon a lot more often than she actually does. In truth, she uses her own boobs as a distraction tactic once in the first issue, but that's about it.
* DarkActionGirl: Jenny's not a particularly likable heroine, but she's fetched up somewhere between {{Batman}} and ThePunisher.
* {{Expy}}: Jenny has a very similar background to a character from the "Widowmaker" arc on Ennis's MAX run on ''The Punisher'', right down to having the same first name.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Completely averted.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: The Ninjettes from issue #4 are a trio of bored young upper-class Asian girls trading on the ninja stereotype in order to get their feet in the door as professional assassins.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Jenny's entire motivation in a nutshell.
* VillainProtagonist: It's difficult to argue that Jenny is not, at bare minimum, a sociopath. Even the husband and children she's so fond of don't seem to play a huge role in her internal monologue, although it may simply be that she's not capable of being very demonstrative towards loved ones.
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Every night, however, Jenny puts her husband and children to sleep with drugged hot chocolate, puts on a black wig and a black coverall, arms herself from a well-maintained arsenal she has hidden in the tool shed, and goes out to kill every mobster she can find.
Jenny's real name is Jessica Blute, and years ago, her father and uncles ruled an entire city by fear, before her uncles turned on and killed her father. She's spent the intervening years in training, and now she's out to return the favor.
''Jennifer Blood'' is a [[ScheduleSlip monthly-ish]] comic from Dynamite Entertainment, written by GarthEnnis with a rotating cast of artists, and is intended as a black comedy.
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!!Tropes encountered in this work include:
* CombatPragmatist: How does one woman, however well-trained or -funded she might be, manage to kill off entire housefuls of armed gangsters? ''Any way she can.''
* CoversAlwaysLie: If you went by the covers of each issue, you'd think Jenny used sex as a weapon a lot more often than she actually does. In truth, she uses her own boobs as a distraction tactic once in the first issue, but that's about it.
* DarkActionGirl: Jenny's not a particularly likable heroine, but she's fetched up somewhere between {{Batman}} and ThePunisher.
* {{Expy}}: Jenny has a very similar background to a character from the "Widowmaker" arc on Ennis's MAX run on ''The Punisher'', right down to having the same first name.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Completely averted.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: The Ninjettes from issue #4 are a trio of bored young upper-class Asian girls trading on the ninja stereotype in order to get their feet in the door as professional assassins.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Jenny's entire motivation in a nutshell.
* VillainProtagonist: It's difficult to argue that Jenny is not, at bare minimum, a sociopath. Even the husband and children she's so fond of don't seem to play a huge role in her internal monologue, although it may simply be that she's not capable of being very demonstrative towards loved ones.
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