Miss Adventure (comic story)
Miss Adventure was a Jenny Everywhere “comic jam”, a comic story created one page at a time with no prewritten script with a new creator taking over for each page. It lasted four pages, created by Scott D. M. Simmons, Benj Christensen, Astrid Lydia Johannsen and Fes Works.
Contents
Plot
Chicago, 1938. As a kid at a newsstand debates whether to buy a Jenny Everywhere comic from Mr King, the real article shifts into this world, being chased by tentacled creatures. She is in radio contact with Dusty and attempts to arrange a rendezvous with Dusty at Evergreen Airfield. Tackled to the grounds by one of the creatures, she uses shifting to switch its head for a pumpkin. This attracts the attention of a police officer who begins chasing her; in addition, she receives another message from Dusty, warning her that some alarm or disturbance has been detected at the Benton Cinema on State Street, which is playing War of the Worlds.
Worldbuilding
Jenny
- Jenny Everywhere appears in an incarnation who wears knee-high black boots, a very long scarf, and a shirt with a skull-and-crossbow design imprinted on the left shoulder. She wields a laser pistol and has some kind of communicator bracelet she uses to stay in contact with Dusty.
- In the universe where the story takes place, Jenny is a fictional character who appears in American comic books contemporary to the first Superman comics.
Universes
- In the universe where the story takes place, Jenny is a fictional character who appears in American comic books contemporary to the first Superman comics.
- Dusty appears to be in contact with Jenny from a home base in another universe.
Other
- Jenny wants to rendezvous with Dusty at Evergreen Airfield.
- Martians are seen attacking Earth with Tripods in a War of the Worlds film adaptation.
Continuity
- Dusty intends to arrange for Jenny to have a pilot's seat on an aeroplane at Evergreen Airfield as an escape route. This seems to conflict with Jenny Everywhere's statement in the later COMIC: The Late Shift that she does not know how to fly a plane.
- This story features a cameo by Martian Tripods in an in-universe movie. H. G. Wells Martians later appeared alongside Jenny Everywhere in PROSE: The Grand Multiverse Hotel and PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker. Although they did not meet directly, Jenny displayed knowledge of the Martians in the latter story.
Behind the scenes
Background
Two locations in the story are named after early Jenny Everywhere creators: the Wintle Newsstand references Steven Wintle, and the Evergreen Airfield pays tribute to Nelson Evergreen.
As highlighted in the story's entry on the Shifter Archive, the comic jam was originally expected to last longer than the four pages it was ultimately left at. This accounts for the storyline appearing unfinished.
Read online
As this story is now offline at its original location (the Global Comic Jam website) as well as on the Shifter Archive, although it was saved on the Internet Archive from the latter location, we reproduce it here with the permission of Benj Christensen.
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