Jenny Zero #1
Dark Horse Comics 2021
Written by Dave Dwonch & Brockton McKinney
Illustrated by Magenta King
Coloured by Megan Huang
Lettered by Dave Dwonch
Sex, Drugs, and Giant Monsters! Meet Jenny Tetsuo, the hard drinkin', hard partyin' daughter of beloved superhero, Mega Commander Zero. After washing out as the military's top Kaiju-killer, ''Jenny Zero'' now lives the celebutante life with her hotel heiress and publicist best friend, Dana Sheraton. But when the massive creatures return, Jenny must decide if she can sober up and save the world!
I found myself really enjoying this. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from this but at its heart it is a Kaiju story told from a very unique point of view. I found myself thinking that this was so on trend right now and then to see how it kept getting more and more original and unique to these creators. By the time we got to the end of the book with that huge cliffhanger ending I wanted more, I needed more. Oh just the way we see things happen and how we get to know some folks really struck every single chord within me that I couldn’t get enough of.
I love the way that we’re seeing this being told. The story & plot development that we see through how the sequence ov events unfold as well as how the reader learns information is presented exceptionally well. One of the things that I thought was done exceptionally well was how we the story moves forward while bringing us the past events that brought us to the point where they are currently at. This ties into the character development and it’s amazingly good to see as the dialogue and the interactions alongside the way they act and react to the situations and circumstances they encounter. We really get a great sense of who they are through all this. The pacing is superb and as it takes us through the pages revealing the story, introducing the characters and shows this world it creates this whirlwind of awesome.
I’m digging the way that this is structured and how the layers within the story are both subtle and complex, sometimes at the same time. There is so much happening in such a short amount of time and yet all fits together like puzzle pieces do. How everything works together to create the story’s ebb & flow as well as how it movies the story forward is achieved beautifully.
The interiors here are fantastic! It has this crazy Japanese style art inspirational feel to it and yet it also feels like totally original work that would fit right into the old underground comix realm. That the linework is so good and how the varying weights and techniques are being utilised to create the detail work we’re seeing is astounding. Backgrounds are utilised here but we could always see more. Regardless, how the composition within the panels bring us this depth perception, sense of scale and that overall sense of size and scope to the story is rendered perfectly. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a marvellous eye for storytelling. The colour work leaves me gobsmacked. The choice of colours, how the various hues and tones within the colours being utilised to create the shading, highlights and shadow work is brilliant to see. Again the colours are so out there and they work on so many levels and it showcases and eye for colour that isn’t afraid to utilise it in some bold and daring manners.
This is definitely an adult title thanks to the language, sexual situations and adult themes and I think that it’s unapologetically European, how they swear and use words that Americans tend to find distasteful, makes me smile with sheer delight. This may be over the top at times but it works on so many levels and I gotta say this is so much more brilliant than I ever could have imagined.
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