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One version of Jenny Everywhere once spent some time with a Belgian kid with a “goofy cowlick”. She described him as “interesting to talk to, always running around doing stuff, a lot of fun to be around… Really cute, too”. Jenny developed a crush on him and tried to make it known to him, but eventually realised that he was “completely clueless about women” and that he not only did not reciprocate her feelings, but had remained entirely oblivious. (PROSE: Misunderstandings)
Another Jenny Everywhere was noted as being an associate of Captain Archibald Haddock, one of Tintin's closest friends. (PROSE: Wanted for Questioning, PROSE: Safe at Home or Fernweh)
Behind the scenes
The character is evidently meant to be Tintin, the eminently copyrighted protagonist of Hergé's 20th century comic series The Adventures of Tintin and its various adaptions and spin-offs. The apparent sexlessness of the character, who does not display encounters romantic or sexual interest of any kind at any point in the course of Hergé's canonical works, has been the subject of much critical attention. In the author's commentary for Misunderstandings, Scott Sanford elaborated: “Oh, yeah, him. For some reason it strikes me as hilarious to imagine Jenny Everywhere hitting on the Belgian kid with the goofy cowlick and getting nowhere. I envision her as getting progressively less subtle about her interests and him remaining clueless… I’d never be able to write it, but I like that I’m able to slip this in as a thing that happened to her already”.
In the real world, Tintin was used as a point of comparison for Jenny Everywhere herself when the character concept was first unveiled on the Barbelith forum, with Jenny being described as “like if Tintin listened to Le Tigre and joined the Fantastic Four” by Steven Wintle. Aware of this early influence, Jack Harvey consciously drew from the Adventures of Tintin, and particularly action scenes featuring trains, for COMIC: Rail Shift, as he noted in his author's comments for that story.
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