Jenna Blue is the story of a young assassin who has run away from her past and done her best to escape her old life, but we soon discover that she didn't know much about her real life before. This actually reminds me a lot of Serpo for where the story heads. The first half of the story feels like a female version of Michael Weston from Burn Notice.
To be honest though, Jenna is incredibly unlikable; her shielding as a defense mechanism makes her incredibly witchy. She's a good assassin and pretty strong at her job. She knows all there is to know about weapons apparently (which is shown twice with the same type of throwing knifes), and is a marksmen with a gun.
The story itself managed to catch me off guard and I wasn't able to call the big reveals until right as they were happening. My main complaint is the fact that the over all book just felt like setup, as if they were planning on it being the first ongoing series. Which is cool, it just felt a little more open-ended than our first three stories.
Steve Gendron's artwork here reminds me of a mix between Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon. Which is a very good thing as those two men have become two of my favorite artists. The cover is nothing like what you get in the book itself, but definitely a great piece of artwork. The use of barely any color to make the blue in the story unique is an excellent idea and it would ibe nteresting to look at Jay's script to see how he explained the idea.
So all in all, Jenna Blue seems like episode 1 in a continuing story that I hope we see more of in the future. It's action/suspense/thriller and science fiction all combined into 1 neat little package.
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We the People is an interesting and fun read full of politics, beautiful art and fighting for the American dream. Jay had said that he hopes to launch this into an ongoing and the way I see it, I'd love that to happen. Our 3 lead characters Robyn, Z and Sinbad all have believable personalities and make you want to root for them. They are all incredibly human as well and have great skill sets that make them unique to their ancestry.
The plot follows our 3 leads as they discover that they are the descendants of Robin Hood, Zorro and Sinbad. Jay follows a formula very similar to Ex Machina where we jump to different points of time, flashing backward and then going back into the present.
The introductions into the lead characters were definitely a highlight of the story for me. From Nadar helping a homeless man that watched after his boat to Xander trying to put the moves on Robyn who really wasn't having any of it.
Joe Eisma's art here, for those that remember, I once compared him to George Perez. I'm going to have to correct myself here by saying that Joe is a mix between Mark Bagley and Tony Harris. I swear the man could do a weekly comic if someone hired him to.
This is Outlaw's 5th book being released and, in my mind, the strongest. The storytelling, the art and the overall theme are incredibly strong and I would love to see more of these characters.
So that's it for this short edition readers. We the People actually officially debuts at San Diego Comic-Con where Joe and Jay will be signing copies!
