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* The jolt of a piece of toast popping out of the toaster in “[[Universe A (My Bloody Valentine)|Universe A]]” coincides with Jenny's first shift from one universe to another; as such, the toast is given significant attention in the first page of the story. A liking for [[toast]] would later become a recurring quirk of Jenny's character.
* The jolt of a piece of toast popping out of the toaster in “[[Universe A (My Bloody Valentine)|Universe A]]” coincides with Jenny's first shift from one universe to another; as such, the toast is given significant attention in the first page of the story. A liking for [[toast]] had earlier been established on the Barbelith Forum as one of Jenny's traits, and would go on to become a recurring quirk of Jenny's character.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20051123161710/http://www.barbelith.com/topic/5491/from/35 Barbelith thread]</ref>
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Soulless Mate (comic story)|Soulless Mate]]'' was written as “a Spiritual Sequel to a Portion of ''My Bloody Valentine''”, picking up the narrative of [[Universe A (My Bloody Valentine)|Universe A]]'s [[Jenny Everywhere 1 (My Bloody Valentine)|Jenny]] and [[David (My Bloody Valentine)|her boyfriend]]].
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[Soulless Mate (comic story)|Soulless Mate]]'' was written as “a Spiritual Sequel to a Portion of ''My Bloody Valentine''”, picking up the narrative of [[Universe A (My Bloody Valentine)|Universe A]]'s [[Jenny Everywhere 1 (My Bloody Valentine)|Jenny]] and [[David (My Bloody Valentine)|her boyfriend]]].
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Death of Jenny Everywhere (comic story)|The Death of Jenny Everywhere]]'', also written by [[David Barnett]], alluded to [[Jenny Everywhere 2 (My Bloody Valentine)|the master-thief Jenny]], suggesting that she had died during the robbery attempt.
* [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Death of Jenny Everywhere (comic story)|The Death of Jenny Everywhere]]'', also written by [[David Barnett]], alluded to [[Jenny Everywhere 2 (My Bloody Valentine)|the master-thief Jenny]], suggesting that she had died during the robbery attempt.

Latest revision as of 22:40, 21 October 2023

My Bloody Valentine was a standalone Jenny Everywhere comic story written by David Barnett and John Miers. It is believed to have been the first of the original Barbelith stories to enter production, though it was only the second released. Though set on Valentine's Day, it was not actually a Valentine's Day release.

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Plot

It's Valentine's Day across the Multiverse, and Jenny Everywhere's shifting rapidly between several of the universes in which she exists, each one bringing a new jolt of some sort which knocks her from one to the next; in each world, her date has something extraordinary to offer. But what will her human date on boring old urban Earth give her? And is the extraordinary really what she wants when she lives and breathes it every day?

Worldbuilding

Jenny

  • Jenny Everywhere appears to exist simultaneously across several different universes with a more-or-less identical physical appearance, shifting her awareness from one world to the next but physically present in all of them at once, and becoming dizzy and distant in any given world when her consciousness is elsewhere.
  • Offhand remarks by Jenny indicates that she drinks alcohol and that she is interested in pursuing a sexual relationship with at least one non-humanoid alien being.
  • Jenny does not appear to be open to her human date about her true nature, pretexting it being “her time of the month” to explain her dizzy spell when she has in fact rapidly shifted her consciousness through several dimensions.
  • Jenny ruefully remarks that she would like one of her Valentines to someday gift her a box of chocolate or some other normal gift.
  • The last panel shows that somehow, all the gifts given to the various Jennies are available to the Jenny of “Universe A”, with the bond between the cross-dimensional Jennies going beyond blurred lines of individual awareness and into some sort of physical shifting of matter, even if Jenny isn't seen to physically shift herself.

Universes

  • In this story, Jenny shifts between four unnamed universes:

Other

Continuity

Behind the scenes

Read online

My Bloody Valentine was originally available on John Miers' personal website. It was also available on queergranny.com. Both pages are now offline. However, the former page was recorded on the Internet Archive, allowing us to reproduce the six pages of My Bloody Valentine here.

Notes & References