Garth Ennis Jennifer Blood Vol. 1

Jennifer Blood, Volume One: A Woman's Work is Never Done

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Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Jennifer Blood, Volume One: Jennifer Blood is a suburban wife and mom by day - and a ruthless vigilante by night! Every day she makes breakfast, takes the kids to school, cleans the house, naps for an hour or two, makes dinner, puts the kids to bed, and kisses her husband goodnight. This suburban punisher is ready to be unleashed in a story that can only be told by the legendary Garth Ennis. Collectin Jennifer Blood is a suburban wife and mom by day - and a ruthless vigilante by night!

Collecting issues of the hit series, along with additional bonus material, sketches, cover gallery, and interview with Garth Ennis. Paperback , pages. Published February 14th by Dynamite Entertainment. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Jennifer Blood, Volume One , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Jennifer Blood, Volume One. Lists with This Book. Feb 15, Chad rated it liked it Shelves: Take the Huntress's backstory and cross it with a female Punisher and you have Jennifer Blood.

She's out for blood to kill her uncles who murdered her parents while she was growing up. The series got better as it went along. Starting out there was way too much writing in her War Journal, to the point where it took away from the story. The art on the first 2 issues was subpar as well.

But as the story moves on, Ennis's black humor starts to emerge and the action picks up. The violence wa Take the Huntress's backstory and cross it with a female Punisher and you have Jennifer Blood. The violence was very graphic. Aug 24, Jonathan Maas rated it really liked it. I love Garth Ennis - but this one is a bit too over the top for me. Still - great tale, and great art by Timothy Bradstreet, and all the other artists.

Mar 06, Sam Quixote rated it it was ok. A woman sets out to avenge her dead father who was murdered brutally at the hands of his fellow gangsters. But this is no ordinary woman - except she's trying to be. Wife, mother, housewife during the day, Jennifer drugs her family at night and slips out for a night of bloody retribution. Look at the cover. You could almost say you've read the book just by looking at it. I've read almost everything Garth Ennis has written and this book feels a lot like hi A woman sets out to avenge her dead father who was murdered brutally at the hands of his fellow gangsters.

I've read almost everything Garth Ennis has written and this book feels a lot like his Punisher books except of course the main character's a woman. None of the characters in the book seem even remotely real. The bad guys are all bad, full stop. The good guys are good. There's a wacky character meant to bring comic relief and he's as one dimensional as the others. Even Jennifer is your archetypal assassin. She's perfect, she knows weapons, explosives, she's done recon, everything goes well for her - so well, it's dull.

Dull is what the book is. She goes through the list of baddies she wants to kill and does so. Then we get the occasional scene where she's at home being a mum, pretending to them she's not a highly trained killer, and then she's off to the next kill.

Ennis doesn't throw in much variation and if you've read as many of his book as I have you'll notice a lot of similarities. Punisher and Hitman spring to mind first, then his other female assassin book "Bloody Mary", and the book begins to look like Ennis on autopilot. Like I said, if all you're looking for is a brainless, straightforward killer chick who takes out bad guy Eastern European gangster types, and nothing more, you'll adore this book; for anyone looking for something a bit out of the ordinary, hoping Ennis has written a genius, sly take on the overfamiliar revenge plot will be disappointed with this offering.

Weak story, dull characters, "Jennifer Blood" is a swing and a miss for Garth Ennis. Jan 18, Ill D rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Jennifer Blood, by Garth Ennis, is something alarming for even the most veteran reader of blood-splattering comics. If you've think you've seen it all, get ready to guess again! Saturated with more blood and guts than your local butcher, a torrent of blood addled gore and the violent acts that have predicated them splurge across the panels.

And just who is the progenito Jennifer Blood, by Garth Ennis, is something alarming for even the most veteran reader of blood-splattering comics. And just who is the progenitor of this violence? Is it a man? Why its Jennifer Blood, a red-blooded woman whose approach to violence feels like it was directly influenced by the entire Cannibal Corpse discography.

Imagine Cat-Woman, sans the silly ears and tail, but saturated in sex appeal and a thorough dosage of reality and it would be a stiff approximation of Jennifer Blood. With a sartorial array that is as much skin tight leather as it is copious armaments, the main character really roars. And oh boy, does she roar! While given somewhat piecemeal throughout the series, a somewhat traditional narrative of revenge serves as the underlay.

As a matter of opinion and preference I will let, as I always do, my readers decide for themselves. Along with this theme of opinion s , so too might there be problematic depictions of not-so-casual-racism and even sexism in this comic. Furthermore, for a work that explicitly fiercely too I might add deals with a strong female lead, there is a somewhat schizophrenic application and exposition of feminist ideas in its depictions. Again I will digress and let the readers arrive at their own conclusions.

Problematic instances, no matter how arguable, aside I found it to be quite well written and the characters to be for the most part believable as they were enjoyable in their depictions and importance to the story. Pacing was well plotted and off-kilter British? In either case, I would definitely recomend this.

And I would definitely give it a solid thumb up if not two, depending on my mood that is. Aug 25, L. McCoy rated it it was amazing Shelves: Jennifer Blute grew up around crime and was part of a crime family. At night she is a merciless vigilante and it makes for an awesome book. The story is really good and well written. The idea of a sweet, caring woman who loves her family also being a vigilante who does some really messed up stuff and shows no mercy is a crazy but fun idea for a story. With most books, the second a little kid and I mean under 10 or 12 shows up, this chorus describes my thoughts NSFW: Some humorous stuff in here for sure.

This is not a predictable one and it has some pretty good twists. This is exactly the kind of thing people or at least people like me want when they pick up a Garth Ennis book. Mar 18, Wesley rated it really liked it Shelves: This book collects the first six issues of Jennifer Blood from Dynamite.

On the surface, Jen Fellows is a typical American, suburban housewife. She has a loving, if slightly boring, husband with whom she has had two children - Mark and Alice - the perfect nuclear family. But Jen has a secret. At night she drugs her family and takes to the streets delivering justice to a notorious crime family the Blutes. But for Jen the attacks on the Blutes are more than just vigilantism for the target of each of her attacks is one of her uncles. Ennis invites comparison to the Punisher with the very first page of this series: And while she has had her life torn apart by the actions of criminals just like the Punisher, the focus of her attacks, at least in this book, is desire for revenge on the specific men who killed her father and destroyed her mother.

But unlike the Punisher she has built a new life beyond the revenge she seeks and must take extraordinary steps to protect her new family. According to an interview in the back of the book this series sees Ennis returning to the lighter side of life.

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Fortunately for his fans the usual elements are still in place - black humour, sexual deviancy and a high, gory body count. This is a great story and a good introduction to the character. I will be interested to see where he takes it now given that her initial revenge has been satisfied and her peeping tom neighbour has discovered her secret - though not the secret he initially thought it was. One slight annoyance was a change of artist midway through issue 3 which was slightly disorienting due to the main bad guys not looking the same as they did just the page before but despite this recommended for fans of Ennis.

Apr 20, Daniel Sevitt rated it liked it Shelves: Any time I can pick up something by Garth Ennis, I probably will as he has given me a fair bit of cheeky entertainment over the years. This was just sitting around in online bargain bins waiting for me to find the energy to click buy. The real prize would be collections of his Punisher runs, but in the meantime, I'll read this kind of thing all day. Mar 23, William Thomas rated it it was ok.

I felt like I was reading the original screenplay to 'Serial Mom'. Garth Ennis was really just phoning it in on this one without any real conviction, tons of hackneyed dialogue and a ridiculously campy monologue that cramped the pages. On top of that, we get some very C- grade artwork here that makes the entire thing down another notch. Amateurish on every level. Honestly, this could have worked better as I felt like I was reading the original screenplay to 'Serial Mom'.

Honestly, this could have worked better as a series of novels published by Angry Robot or Orbit. It had much too much monologue and dialogue and backstory and frontstory and just, well, too much of everything to really fit the confines of the graphic novel medium. It felt cluttered and everything suffered for it. Its not nearly as fun as his run on Punisher and not nearly as literary as Preacher. Just very disappointing overall. Apr 08, Madeleine rated it liked it. Fun, blood-soaked revenge romp, though I was a little unhappy about some of the collateral carnage.

Mar 11, Mike rated it liked it. Interesting take on the "guy-takes-on-the-mob" trope. In fact, halfway through I thought, "This is an excellent rendition of 'Punisher as a housewife'. And it is exactly that - with a couple of additional twists to make sure it's not just a straight retelling of some of Ennis' good work on Punisher itself. It definitely stands in stark contrast to the visceral action that plays out - and it makes sure we know it isn't just a boobed-up versi Interesting take on the "guy-takes-on-the-mob" trope.

It definitely stands in stark contrast to the visceral action that plays out - and it makes sure we know it isn't just a boobed-up version of Frank Castle walking us through the story. But really, it feels a little overdone - like it would be good in about half the volume. Beyond that however, it's quite amazing how good it is to see a trophy wife taking on a mob gang and pulling them apart one step at a time. The characters other than Jennifer aren't much more than one dimensional - but they're just there for Jennifer to play against.

However, the set pieces and the brutality are pretty vividly rendered, as are the stark contrasts with suburban life, annoying neighbours and clueless family. Oct 22, Steve Isaak rated it really liked it. Jennifer Blood is a bloody, nasty, for-mature-audiences-only work, featuring writer Ennis' fast-moving, raunchy and black-as-frak wit. The storyline is familiar see the back cover description , but Ennis' action-lean writing, coupled with Jennifer's eye-popping illustrations and visual tones courtesy of various artists, colorists and Rob Steen's lettering make its plot-familiarity irrelevant.

This is not a graphic novel for readers put off by gore, nudity and ultra-dark - and effective - them Jennifer Blood is a bloody, nasty, for-mature-audiences-only work, featuring writer Ennis' fast-moving, raunchy and black-as-frak wit. This is not a graphic novel for readers put off by gore, nudity and ultra-dark - and effective - themes: Followed by Jennifer Blood: Aug 03, David rated it it was ok Shelves: She didn't consistently wear gloves at the first crime scene.

A vinyl bodysuit seems like a bad choice for fighting. Leaving a signature in blood at the crime scene was a bad idea. She drove her own car to both crime scenes. What about cameras or late arrivals? Maiming the drunk at the second crime scene was ill considered. If she had waited a week the victim wouldn't have suspected anything. It was al view spoiler [ 1. It was also an unnecessary risk. She should have used a parabolic microphone to eavesdrop on the yacht. Jul 08, Scott rated it really liked it Shelves: So what is it about Garth Ennis I like so much?

I don't know, maybe I'm just trying to make up with all the mayhem I missed out from not being able to read comics as a kid. Anyway, not as good as the Preacher series, but still a fun read.

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Sep 01, Alex Murphy rated it it was ok Shelves: This is not the most original idea ever. A seemingly devoted spouse and parent leads a secret life as an assassin. Anyway, was it good? Garth Ennis' Jennifer Blood Volume 1. Description Jennifer Blood is a suburban wife and mom by day - and a ruthless vigilante by night!

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