Jenny is in Japan and heading for the trenches. The underground sewers, actually. It’s Jenny Zero, Volume 2, #3 from Dark Horse.
Writers Dave Dwonch and Brockton McKinney waste no time getting to the bottom of the heap, tunneling below our usual street level. It’s a chatty story, with an above-average word count per panel, per person and per page. But beyond the volumes of witty banter, the story bangs around below, vaguely dated at around the year 2018.
Jenny, with her arm cannon, with her firm grasp of high doses of medication, fights against dastardly plots to take over the world. Jenny, and her swearing and sleeping around, messily involving herself with those she is embedded with. Jenny the junkie, full of angst.
Artist Magenta King keeps up with this frantic plot, with wide-eyed characters full of emotion, lines drawn thin around plenty of fascinating environments. The colouring by Arnaldo Robles and Geraldo Filho is painted vividly in mauve, pink, and pale blue, the better to make it fantastic, fascinating, and out of the usual comic story corner.
Frantic, moody, erratic, and somehow compelling, it’s Jenny Zero, new costume and all.
Dark Horse, Jenny Zero II #3, 26 pages of content. Mature for foul language and intimate scenes.
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