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|caption1= First page of the story. | |caption1= First page of the story. | ||
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|hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere | |hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere 1 (The Death of Jenny Everywhere)|Jenny Everywhere]] | ||
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|featuring= [[Jenny Everywhere#Ms Everywhere|Ms Everywhere]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Blonde Jenny|Jenny Everywhere]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Earrings Jenny|Jenny Everywhere]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#As a cat|Jenny Everywhere]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Johnny Everywhere|Johnny Everywhere]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Short-haired Jenny|Jenny Everywhere]] | |featuring= [[Jenny Everywhere#Ms Everywhere|Ms Everywhere]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Blonde Jenny|Jenny Everywhere]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Earrings Jenny|Jenny Everywhere]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#As a cat|Jenny Everywhere]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Johnny Everywhere|Johnny Everywhere]]<br>[[Jenny Everywhere#Short-haired Jenny|Jenny Everywhere]] | ||
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==Contents== | ==Contents== | ||
===Plot=== | ===Plot=== | ||
[[Jenny Everywhere | [[Jenny Everywhere 1 (The Death of Jenny Everywhere)|Jenny Everywhere]] is an ordinary young woman. Although she has noticed that she has some [[Shift|strange abilities]], she doesn't know how to interpret her confusing intuition that there are other people “like her” impossibly far away — that is, until, alone and sleepy one afternoon in her flat, she finds herself in a graveyard dreamscape where other versions of herself are laying yet another one to rest! | ||
===Worldbuilding=== | ===Worldbuilding=== | ||
====Jenny==== | ====Jenny==== | ||
* Multiple incarnations of [[Jenny Everywhere]] can physically meet in dreams whenever one of them dies. | * Multiple incarnations of [[Jenny Everywhere]] can physically meet in dreams whenever one of them dies. | ||
* A number of incarnations of Jenny Everywhere are seen, including: | * A number of incarnations of Jenny Everywhere are seen, including: | ||
** The story's [[Jenny Everywhere | ** The story's [[Jenny Everywhere 1 (The Death of Jenny Everywhere)|main Jenny]], a young Asian woman with short hair who wears a striped sweater; | ||
** “[[Jenny Everywhere#Ms Everywhere|“Ms Everywhere”]], a mature Jenny wearing a trenchcoat, who serves as the aforementioned Jenny's guide; | ** “[[Jenny Everywhere#Ms Everywhere|“Ms Everywhere”]], a mature Jenny wearing a trenchcoat, who serves as the aforementioned Jenny's guide; | ||
** A grinning [[Jenny Everywhere#Blonde Jenny|blonde Jenny]] wearing a black leather jacket; | ** A grinning [[Jenny Everywhere#Blonde Jenny|blonde Jenny]] wearing a black leather jacket; | ||
Revision as of 19:11, 9 May 2023
The Death of Jenny Everywhere was a standalone Jenny Everywhere comic story written by David Barnett and drawn by Catherine Wright (signing “Sax” and “Kit-Cat” respectively). It was the eleventh in the official reading order of the thirteen original Barbelith Jenny Everywhere stories.
The story introduced the notion of multiple incarnations of Jenny meeting in dreams, as well as the idea that some Jennies didn't realise their true nature until early adulthood. It was also the debut of Johnny Everywhere.
Contents
Plot
Jenny Everywhere is an ordinary young woman. Although she has noticed that she has some strange abilities, she doesn't know how to interpret her confusing intuition that there are other people “like her” impossibly far away — that is, until, alone and sleepy one afternoon in her flat, she finds herself in a graveyard dreamscape where other versions of herself are laying yet another one to rest!
Worldbuilding
Jenny
- Multiple incarnations of Jenny Everywhere can physically meet in dreams whenever one of them dies.
- A number of incarnations of Jenny Everywhere are seen, including:
- The story's main Jenny, a young Asian woman with short hair who wears a striped sweater;
- ““Ms Everywhere”, a mature Jenny wearing a trenchcoat, who serves as the aforementioned Jenny's guide;
- A grinning blonde Jenny wearing a black leather jacket;
- A sterner-looking version of Jenny with black skin, short curly hair, square glasses instead of goggles, and earrings;
- A Jenny Everywhere who appears to be an ordinary cat wearing a scarf and goggles;
- Johnny Everywhere, a transmasculine incarnation with light brown hair, who smokes a pipe:
- A short-haired Jenny who believes she knows how the Jenny who died met her fate.
Universes
- This story takes place all in one material universe, but Jenny finds herself in a graveyard dreamscape.
Continuity
- One of the rumours about the identity of the Jenny who died is that she was killed while trying to steal a big diamond. This is a reference to the master-thief Jenny glimpsed in David Barnett's own earlier Jenny tale, COMIC: My Bloody Valentine.
Behind the scenes
Notes
Although the portrayal of Johnny Everywhere is largely positive, and should be understood to be of its time, the depiction of him as a transgender man contains two outdated features. Firstly, he is referred to as “transsexual”, a term which has fallen out of use since 2003 and is now considered to border on offensive. Secondly, Ms Everywhere suggests that she considers that it continues to be proper to refer to Johnny with a female name and pronouns until he undergoes gender confirmation surgery (whereas it is now well understood that social transition needn't be dependent on physical alterations).
Read online
The Death of Jenny Everywhere was originally available on the original Jenny Everywhere website. As it is no longer online, reproduce the six pages of The Death of Jenny Everywhere here.
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