Garth Ennis' Jennifer Blood #3

[superboyprime]

Four pages from issue #3 of Ennis' Punisher-meets-"Weeds" series...

Comments

[big_daddy_d]

"It was so small and skinny and pink and disgusting, it was like a tiny little worm!"

Nice. I'll have to read the full issue, but I doubt I'd need to read it to know that he should've got his ass kicked because seriously...did he really just corner her in the bathroom with his pants down?

[misterbug]

Wow. She screamed so hard the pattern on her dress ran away.

[jeyl]

Only to come back in the last panel!

Also, is her fantasy assault in sequence or is she just thinking of multiple ways of dealing with him? Because I'm pretty sure that one simply doesn't regrow their gouged eyes the moment the attacker's fingers leave their head.

[blackruzsa]

Win.
I mean, that's ingenuity for you.

[funbox]

I thought that too! I mean, the male party, though he deserved to get his butt served to him, got to save face and the wife didn't have to go to jail for first degree man slaughter (or can it trully be self defense? I need to brush up on my law :p)! Status quo restored!

[ex_trafalgar217]

Nice. I mean I would have voted for the sizzle-y face option but still kind of funny.

[heckfire]

I hate this comic more with each post. Ugh.

[pyrotwilight]

Kinda funny, but I'm somewhat surprised everyone kept running after they heard the "it's a mouse" part.

[icon_uk]

Human nature I suppose: You hear someone scream like that, you run. You hear that someone screamed like that because of something silly, you run faster, if only to share the joke.

[mullon]

She should have just gone with kick him in the nuts.

[golden_orange]

I agree in theory, but I get the feeling from the preceding mental fantasy she was indulging in that if she'd started with a kick in the nads, it... well, wouldn't have ENDED there if you get where I'm going.

[greenmask]

Are there more man-butts in this comic?

Are they ALL wicked spike-hairy?

Good plan, really. Nothing happens, husband knows his honour has been defended, mister entitlement will maybe think again (maybe) in future, party can continue, Jennifer remains boss.

[whitesycamore]

Are there more man-butts in this comic?

Are they ALL wicked spike-hairy?

I... I was going to say that exact same thing.

Let us enjoy this moment of kinship.

[auggie18]

Meh, I'm cool with it. Comic book dudes are usually wicked smooth and that's not exactly true to real life, in my admittedly limited experience.

[keeva]

I don't like the plan, really. It sends some really skeevy messages about rape.

[greenmask]

P.S. That is a tiresome cover.

[darkknightjrk]

Yeah, the whole, "gun hidden behind amazing girl bum in fancy underwear" thing is kinda cliche. But when it's a well-drawn cover it doesn't bother me much.

[baihu]

That was a better reaction and resolution than I expected from this comic, honestly.

[crabby_lioness]

Word. Sometimes it's hard to remember that Ennis can writer well when he bothers to.

[whitesycamore]

So your comic has a lady in it?

OH, THEN YOU CAN HAVE A RAPE PLOT! :D

Yeah, you're really breaking the fucking mold with this one, Ennis. My, I wonder what vagina-centric subplot your vagina-having hero will face next?

[crabby_lioness]

Alas, post-modernism is about subverting molds, not breaking them.

[auggie18]

Huh. I'm actually in the middle of writing an essay about screaming. It's mostly about how the sonic scream can be seen as feminist power, redefining something that was formerly used just to attract (male) rescuers as a weapon in and of itself. Of course, it's entirely possible I'm overthinking the whole thing or that I'm just plain wrong, given the fact that one of the most famous sonic screamers is a dude.

Anyway, she shoulda just kicked him in the nethers.

[greenmask]

Ooh, that sounds neat. Will we get to read it?

[shadowpsykie]

okay... umm whats this series about? is she a spy/assassin? does her husband not know?

[darkknightjrk]

Admittedly, I've only read the scans from here, but it looks like she's a sort-of Punisher/Rorschach-esque vigilante, and no one knows about it.

[keeva]

Any chance you can add a trigger warning here for the attempted rape? It wasn't what I was wanting to read when I first woke up, and it may have worse effects on other people. :p

[superboyprime]

No problem. Done.

[fifthie]

Punisher-meets-"Weeds"

This is a very apt comparison, in that neither of those things is very good.

[fifthie]

I think the major problem with this is the problem I've seen in alll the ~domestic suburbia~ stuff I've seen of this comic, which is that the story goes to enormous pains to establish how much this lady just straight-up doesn't give a fuck about any of this, which begs the question, why the fuck am I supposed to? Why are we investing five pages' worth of comic on a situation that the main character herself p. much considers to be a trivial inconvenience?

[fifthie]

The situation could even be like, a little bit interesting if I thought this lady was maybe really legit struggling with the urge to straight-up murder this dude but it kinda comes across like "well I mean i guess it'd be cool to straight up crush this dude's ballsack but uh that'd be all inconvenient, better not, *yawn*, oh he's still here, guess I'll scream or something, *yawn* *scream* *yawn*"

[proteus_lives]

Ennis is so weak nowadays.

[halloweenjack]

Yeah. The Boys is close to the end of its run, but I decided to drop it anyway--just not worth $4 per the installment. And this is Ennis doing his version of The Long Kiss Goodnight, from all indications.