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 |caption1= First page of the story.
 |other_titles=
-|hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere#In Right-On By The Sea|Jenny Everywhere]]
+|hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere (Name's Not Down)|Jenny Everywhere]]
 |villain(s)= [[Jez Cock]]<br>[[Faceless Cyborg Ninja]]s<br>[[Jenny Nowhere#In Right-On By The Sea|Jenny Nowhere]]
 |featuring= [[Clea]]<br>[[Lex]]<br>[[Bradley]]<br>[[Lois (Damn Fine Hostile Takeover)|Lois]]
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+|dates=April 15th, 2003 <small>(part one)</small> <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20050429005259/http://www.barbelith.com/topic.php?id=12016]</ref>
-|original_link= http://www.nelson-evergreen.com/JennyE/NamesNotDown/namesnotdown1.html
+August 31st, 2004 <small>(part two)</small> <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20051125074640/http://barbelith.com/topic/14484/from/315]</ref>
-}}'''''Damn Fine Hostile Takeover''''' was a standalone Jenny Everywhere comic story written by [[Joe Macaré]] and drawn by [[Nelson Evergreen]]. Released in two hlaves, it thus managed the feat of both being #4 and #5 in the official reading order of the original thirteen Barbelith [[Jenny Everywhere]] stories.
+|original_link= [http://www.nelson-evergreen.com/JennyE/NamesNotDown/namesnotdown1.html]
+[http://www.queergranny.com/jennyeverywhere/04takeover.shtml]
+[http://www.btinternet.com/~nelson_evergreen/takeover1a.html]
+}}'''''Damn Fine Hostile Takeover''''' was a standalone Jenny Everywhere comic story written by [[Joe Macaré]] and drawn by [[Nelson Evergreen]]. Released in two halves, it thus managed the feat of both being #4 and #5 in the official reading order of the original thirteen Barbelith [[Jenny Everywhere]] stories.
 Reusing Jenny's friends [[Clea]], [[Lex]] and [[Bradley]] and the town of [[Right-On By The Sea]] (from Macaré and Evergreen's earlier ''[[Name's Not Down (comic story)|Name's Not Down]]''), it also introduced [[Jenny Nowhere]] as a last-page sequel hook. Oddly, Macaré and Evergreen never wrote a Jenny Nowhere story past that point, but the character was picked up by later creators and became one of the main recurring elements in Jenny Everywhere media.
 ==Contents==
 ===Plot===
-When an [[Apollo Coffee|evil megacorp]] threatens to drive their favourite indie coffee shop out of business, [[Jenny Everywhere#In Right-On By The Sea|Jenny Everywhere]] and her friends [[Clea]], [[Lex]] and [[Bradley]] decide that some “direct action” is called for, and force their way into the local Apollo Coffee skyscraper to demand they back off. Unfortunately, although the [[Jez Cock|corrupt executive himself]] is nothing formidable, he turns out to be evil enough to have a literal army of [[Faceless Cyborg Ninja]]s for bodyguard, and things get heated.
+When an [[Apollo Coffee|evil megacorp]] threatens to drive their favourite indie coffee shop out of business, [[Jenny Everywhere (Name's Not Down)|Jenny Everywhere]] and her friends [[Clea]], [[Lex]] and [[Bradley]] decide that some “direct action” is called for, and force their way into the local Apollo Coffee skyscraper to demand they back off. Unfortunately, although the [[Jez Cock|corrupt executive himself]] is nothing formidable, he turns out to be evil enough to have a literal army of [[Faceless Cyborg Ninja]]s for bodyguard, and things get heated.
 ===Worldbuilding===
 ====Jenny Everywhere====
-*This story once again features the [[Jenny Everywhere#In Right-On By The Sea|incarnation]] of [[Jenny Everywhere]] who lives in [[Right-On By The Sea]].
+*This story once again features the [[Jenny Everywhere (Name's Not Down)|incarnation]] of [[Jenny Everywhere]] who lives in [[Right-On By The Sea]].
 ====Jenny Nowhere====
 *[[Jenny Nowhere#In Right-On By The Sea|Jenny Nowhere]] appears as a short-haired, blonde woman in a black catsuit. She has a grim expression, smokes a cigarette and appears to have just arrived in Right-On By The Sea.
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 *[[Bradley]], when being awoken, briefly confuses [[Clea]]'s voice with a certain [[Eliza (Damn Fine Hostile Takeover)|Eliza]]'s.
 *Jenny and the gang's favourite coffee shop is the ''[[Cuppa Cha Cha Cha]]''. [[Lois (Damn Fine Hostile Takeover)|Lois]] works behind the counter, although it's unclear whether it's her business or if she is simply employed there.
-*“Swinging [[London]]” is located “just over an hour away from sunny [[Right-On By The Sea]], assuming the buggerin' train's on time”.
+*“[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swinging_Sixties Swinging] [[London]]” is located “just over an hour away from sunny [[Right-On By The Sea]], assuming the buggerin' train's on time”.
 *[[Clea]] notes that she has a PhD in Queer Theory and in Pop Culture Studies.
 *[[Lex]] hints at [[Fourth Wall Awareness]], noting when [[Bradley]] complains about how violent their adventures always get that “it's what the public wants to see”.
 *The [[Faceless Cyborg Ninja]]s appear to be vat-grown.
 *[[Lex]] has an unrequited crush on [[Lois (Damn Fine Hostile Takeover)|Lois]].
 ===Continuity===
-* [[Jenny Everywhere#In Right-On By The Sea|Jenny]], [[Lex]], [[Clea]] and [[Bradley]]'s adventures were first shown in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Name's Not Down (comic story)|Name's Not Down]]''.
+* [[Jenny Everywhere (Name's Not Down)|Jenny]], [[Lex]], [[Clea]] and [[Bradley]]'s adventures were first shown in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Name's Not Down (comic story)|Name's Not Down]]''.
+* [[Jenny Everywhere (Reality Z-25 31-H)|A different incarnation]] of Jenny recounted having once fought [[Faceless Cyborg Ninja]] to the [[Koala Bay Bares Naturist Resort]]'s residents in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Ghost Story (comic story)|Ghost Story]]''.
+* The introductory panel of [[Jenny Nowhere#In Right-On By The Sea|Jenny Nowhere]] was recreated by [[Jack Harvey]] as a flashback in [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Legend of Jenny Everywhere (comic story)|The Legend of Jenny Everywhere]]'' when [[Grandmaster Awndisk]], among other references to early Jenny Everywhere stories, recalled how she had “borne true duality”.
 ==Behind the scenes==
+After its release on August 31st, 2004, Nelson Evergreen eventually recolored part two, giving it a "greyscale sheen" and reuploading it on June 10th, 2005. The original, non-greyscale versions of these pages are not known to be extant.
+===Homages===
+[[Paul Hoppe]], creator of many works featuring [[Jenny Everywhere]] and [[Jenny Nowhere]], [https://xepher.net/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=2096;area=showposts;start=30 created] a portrait of this story's iteration of Jenny in 2013.
+<gallery widths="310">
+HostileTakeover Jenny.jpg
+</gallery>
 ===Read online===
-''Damn Fine Hostile Takeover'' was originally available in [http://www.nelson-evergreen.com/JennyE/Takeover1/takeover11.html two] [http://www.nelson-evergreen.com/JennyE/Takeover2/takeover21.html parts] on Nelson Evergreen's personal website], as well as on
+''Damn Fine Hostile Takeover'' was originally available in [http://www.nelson-evergreen.com/JennyE/Takeover1/takeover11.html two] [http://www.nelson-evergreen.com/JennyE/Takeover2/takeover21.html parts] on Nelson Evergreen's personal website], as well as on the original Jenny Everywhere website. However, all these pages are now offline. Consequently, we reproduce the twenty pages of the story below.
-the original Jenny Everywhere website. However, all these pages are now offline. Consequently, we reproduce the twenty pages of the story below.
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