Monday, February 21, 2011
Jennifer Blood #1 Review
Are you ready for a new book by legendary writer Garth Ennis? Thought so, the man who brought us the ultra violent epic that is Preacher is back with more blood soaked awesomeness. Jennifer Blood is the story of Jennifer, bored housewife by day and leather clad female 'Frank Castle' by night. The story is delivered in an interesting way, through the voice of Jennifer's diary. Who knew that Ennis was so in touch with his feminine side? It does actually work pretty well though, talking about the day to day boredom of housewife life as nonchalantly as she compares ammo types and the process of drugging her family with Valium so they won't wake up during her nightly activities.
Jennifer has the perfect family, hardworking husband and two kids. She cooks dinner, does homework with the kids and does the housework. Once family time is over she absconds to her home made armory in the basement dons the black leather and the black wig an becomes Jennifer Blood. Our anti-heroine heads to the docks and scopes out a car theft ring shipping overseas, things get as ridiculously messy as you would expect from Ennis and she takes out the whole gang. All of this is still being told through the mechanism of the diary, it's kinda different but it works.. Ms. Blood takes everyone out in a haze of bullets and popping heads, before she leaves we get a small clue as to her motivations for the vigilante gig. When she gets home we get a look at just how emotionally disconnected and broken she is.
I really enjoyed this book, it's not Ennis' best work but it's a whole heap of fun and the unusual delivery turns his usual hyper violent story into something just that little bit different. Adriano Batista is perhaps the perfect visual compliment to Ennis that is to say he draws violence extremely well. It's a decent start to what could become, with some fleshing out of the characters and the action kept at this high level, a must-have series.
Writer: Garth Ennis
Artist: Adriano Batista
Colors: Romulo Fajardo Jr.
Letters: Rob Steen
Cover: Tim Bradstreet
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
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