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Jenna Blue Gets Reviewed
Tue, 1 September 2009 by Huckleberry
Jenna Blue
by SebastianPiccione
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Title: Jenna Blue
Publisher Name: Outlaw Entertainment
Writer: Jason M. Burns
Art: Steve Gendron
7.99, 112 pages, Color
Safety Content Label: T+ TEENS AND UP - Appropriate for most readers 13 and up, parents are advised that they might want to read before or with younger children.
Publishers Blurb:
Artist: Steve Gendron & Ciaran Lucas
Cover Artist: Nick Bradshaw
Description: Jenna Blue is the story of a ruthless female assassin with pale blue skin, a condition so rare that only a small handful share in it. When Jenna discovers her most recent targets all have the similar pigmented epidermis, a mystery unfolds, revealing that she and others like her may be the result of a genetic experiment that first began in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.
Reviewer Comments:
While this wasn't my favorite offering from OUTLAW PRODUCTIONS, it's still a pretty good book.
Jenna Blue is the tale of a female assassin caught up in a bigger plot. Heard it before? No. You haven't.
This book definitely twists and turns, zigging when you expected a zag. It keeps you guessing.
My problems with the book were twofold.
1- I felt the writing wasn't as tight as some of Burns' other books. I LOVED him on HAT TRICK and IMAGINARY FRIENDS. This one had, what I felt to be, some clumsy dialogue and cumbersome captions.
2-The art. I realize there is a stylized thing going on here, and I'm cool with that. It's just that it was very inconsistent, with people and objects shifting in size and shape, and the anatomy and proportions were off a little too much to be explained SOLELY by style.
That said, here was something in the art that made me think of the old DUCKMAN cartoon, so ya gotta give it props for that! And it wasn't badly written, I enjoyed the story and liked what was done here, it just didn't seem to flow as well as Burns other works.
Still in all, a highly enjoyable read with an open enough ending to warrant further adventures. And I'd certainly be willing to give Jenna another go.
