My Bloody Valentine (comic story)

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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 Jenny Everywhere stories to enter production, though it was only the second released.

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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:
    • Universe A” seems to be an urban, contemporary Earth, though not devoid of supernatural elements.
    • The Jenny of “Universe B”, also an Earthlike setting, is apparently a glamorous master-thief in a committed relationship with a male counterpart.
    • In “Universe C”, she has some sort of relationship with a mad scientist specializing in the study, and, sometimes, creation, of strange animals.
    • In “Universe D”, Jenny inhabits a sci-fi, outer-space setting and is in a romantic relationship with a huge nonhuman being.

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