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}}'''''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 Stories|Barbelith Jenny Everywhere stories]].
}}'''''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 Stories|Barbelith Jenny Everywhere stories]].

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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

Continuity

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.

Notes & References