Name's Not Down (comic story)

Name's Not Down was a standalone Jenny Everywhere comic story written by Joe Macaré and drawn by Nelson Evergreen. It is believed to have been the first of the original Barbelith Jenny Everywhere stories to be released, although My Bloody Valentine was begun first. It also introduced Jenny's friends Clea, Lex and Bradley and the town of Right-On By The Sea, which would recur in other stories, in an effort to establish a potential setting and status-quo for the Shifter.

Jenny Everywhere and her friends Clea, Lex and Bradley, who, together, form the band of Right-On By The Sea's most notorious chaotic troublemakers, try to get into an exclusive concert, but the bouncer insists that their name's not on the list — even though Jenny was pretty sure she had tricked Nathan, the promoter, into letting her come. The bouncer ends up touching the limits of Jenny's patience…

Worldbuilding

Jenny

Jenny Everywhere is known to her friends in Right-On By The Sea as “the Shifter”.
She displays an ability for physical combat.

Universes

This story entirely takes place in one universe, home to the coastal city of Right-On By The Sea.

Other

The concert Jenny and her friends are intent on attending is a night of “queer hip-hop post-glitch electronica and glum'n'bass” at Club Twart.

Continuity

Jenny, Lex, Clea and Bradley's adventures were continued with the same writer-artist team in COMIC: Damn Fine Hostile Takeover.
This story's main Jenny, as seen on the title page, was one of the incarnations glimpsed by the Nommo in COMIC: Say The Word.
Right-On By The Sea would make unnamed cameos, paying tribute to this story as one of the first Jenny tales, in the prose stories The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere and Paying It Forward.

Behind the scenes

Read online

Name's Not Down was originally available on Nelson Evergreen's personal website, but this page is no longer available. The seven pages of the story are reproduced here.