History Comicbook / JenniferBlood

* DarkActionGirl: Jenny's not a particularly likable protagonist, but she's fetched up somewhere between Franchise/{{Batman}} and ComicBook/ThePunisher. She's also capable of holding her own against vastly superior forces.

* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: The "Jennifer Blood" in volume 3 turns out to be Alice Fellows, with her twin brother Mark occasionally pitching in. The real Jenny Blute died years beforehand in a prison assassination.]]

Its original run ended with issue #36 in February 2014. A second volume written by Grant, ''Born Again,'' ran for five issues in 2014. A third volume, an ongoing series and direct sequel written by Creator/FredVanLente, began in October 2021.

Spin-off miniseries include ''The Ninjettes'', a prequel that features some one-off antagonists from the first volume's fourth issue, and ''First Blood'', a story set during the period of time when Jenny was training to make her initial run at her uncles.

* KillEmAll: Issue #22 features the sudden collision of the main plot with something like six slow-boil subplots, as most of the cast runs into one another in a small town where Jenny's gone to ground, all of whom are looking to arrest or kill Jenny. When the dust clears, [[spoiler:everyone is dead except Jenny, Pruitt, Sullivan, and Jenny's kids]].

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* 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.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Jenny realizes that her children are terrified of her and that continuing on her path means that she'll probably end up killing them and herself, which prompts a tearful breakdown as she lets Ray Buwick take her kids to live with her mother-in-law. Pruitt ends up taking her in where she’s sentenced to life in prison. While she’s facing justice for her crimes, she spends every day fighting off inmates who want the high bounty on her head, her children are most likely mentally scarred for life from all the deaths they have had to witness, and many [[InnocentBystander innocent bystanders]] are dead just because they got in her way or got caught in the crossfire of people wanting to kill her.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: In the end, the thing that finally convinces Jennifer to stop her rampage despite degenerating into a hyper-violent sociopath by this stage is the realisation that she was a threat to her children’s safety, and that they were terrified of their mother because of her [[AxCrazy rampant insanity.]]]]

* KillEmAll: Issue #22 features the sudden collision of the main plot with something like six slow-boil subplots, as most of the cast runs into one another in a small town where Jenny's gone to ground, all of whom are looking to arrest or kill Jenny. When the dust clears, [[spoiler: everyone is dead except Jenny, Pruitt, Sullivan, and Jenny's kids.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Jennifer finally has one during her HeelRealization [[spoiler:which kicks off her redemption arc.]]

* ProtagonistCentredMorality: Lampshaded and ultimately averted. Jennifer's initial diary entries paint her as an AntiHero [[IDidWhatIHadToDo doing what needs to be done]] but, [[spoiler:after her HeelRealization, she admits that she was just making excuses to kill people and see herself as the heroine of the story.]]

* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Despite her ruthlessness while going out for revenge against her uncles, Jenny initially still seems like she's got her worst instincts in check. [[spoiler: Afterwards, however, Jenny rapidly deteriorates as time goes on into a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]], AxCrazy killer that goes on a cross-country murder spree, ultimately no better than her enemies.]]

* VillainProtagonist: Jenny devolves over the course of the book from a particularly vicious brand of anti-heroine to an outright sociopath, culminating in #18 and #19 [[spoiler: when she goes on a rampage through her neighborhood and then across the United States, holding up gas stations for money and leaving no survivors.]]

* 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 (see the page header, above) often show her gunfighting while scantily clad, which never happens in the actual book.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Jenny realizes that her children are terrified of her and that continuing on her path means that she'll probably end up killing them and herself, which prompts a tearful breakdown as she lets Ray Buwick take her kids to live with her mother-in-law. Pruitt ends up taking her in where she is sentenced to life in prison. While she is facing justice for her crimes, she spends every day fighting off inmates who want the high bounty on her head, her children are most likely mentally scarred for life from all the deaths they have had to witness, and many [[InnocentBystander innocent bystanders]] are dead just because they got in her way or got caught in the crossfire of people wanting to kill her.]]

''Jennifer Blood'' is a [[ScheduleSlip monthly-ish]], mature-audiences-only comic from [[Creator/DynamiteComics Dynamite Entertainment]], written by Creator/GarthEnnis, Creator/AlEwing, 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.

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.

Jenny appears in 2015's ''Swords of Sorrow'' Dynamite crossover.

* ProtagonistCentredMorality: Lampshaded and ultimately averted Jennifer's initial diary entries paint her as an AntiHero [[IDidWhatIHadToDo doing what needs to be done]] but, [[spoiler:after her HeelRealization, she admits that she was just making excuses to kill people and see herself as the heroine of the story.]]

* ProtagonistCentredMorality: Lampshaded and ultimately averted [[spoiler: Jennifer's initial diary entries paint her as an AntiHero [[IDidWhatIHadToDo doing what needs to be done]] but, [[spoiler:after her HeelRealization, she admits that she was just making excuses to kill people and see herself as the heroine of the story.]]

* InTheBlood: Pruitt's theory on Jenny is that despite her own stated desires, the craziness that made her uncles monsters is still very much 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. This theory has been advanced in later issues with the strong suggestion that being a member of the Blute family at all means being at high risk to develop at least one personality disorder.

* 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. This theory has been advanced in later issues with the strong suggestion that being a member of the Blute family at all means being at high risk to develop at least one sociopathic disorder.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In the end, the thing that finally convinces Jennifer to stop her rampage despite degenerating into a hyper-violent sociopath by this stage is the realisation that she was a threat to her children’s safety, and that they were terrified of their mother because of her rampant insanity.

* DarkActionGirl: Jenny's not a particularly likable protagonist, but she's fetched up somewhere between Franchise/{{Batman}} and ThePunisher. She's also capable of holding her own against vastly superior forces.

* 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. Finally, Mike Carroll's run is a globe-spanning action movie with Jenny as the villain of the piece, dealing with her family's European relatives and on the run from the FBI.

* AxCrazy: Not at first. But come #18 and #19 and she is going on killing sprees, targeting FriendOrFoe alike.

* 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.

* 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. 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.

** 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.

* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Despite being ruthless enough while going out for revenge against her uncles, [[spoiler: she quite rapidly deteriorates as time goes on into a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]], AxCrazy killer that goes on a cross-country murder spree, ultimately no better than her enemies.]]
* 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 sets up Kelly's unwilling mentor Varla for her appearances later in the main book.

* CrazyPrepared: Jenny's very fond of planting charges ahead of time to secure her escape routes.

''Jennifer Blood'' is a [[ScheduleSlip monthly-ish]], mature-audiences-only comic from Dynamite Entertainment, written by Creator/GarthEnnis, Creator/AlEwing, 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.

''Jennifer Blood'' is a [[ScheduleSlip monthly-ish]], mature-audiences-only comic from Dynamite Entertainment, written by 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.