Max Murdock
Max Murdock with whom Jenny Everywhere was in a romantic relationship, until these events split off into an alternate timeline. He was an employee of the Weekly Comet, a tabloid that was in reality a front for an organization dedicated to protecting the world's mysteries.
Description
Physical appearance
Murdock was a bald human with a goatee. He wore a large pair of sunglasses. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere is Back for the First Time)
Personality
Murdock was a generally easy-going person, although he was sometimes baffled by inexplicable experiences. He could be skeptical about supernatural phenomena, but was ultimately willing to believe, stating that. after all, he didn't know everything about the universe. Murdock enjoyed gently teasing his friends, but was ultimately a kind and dependable individual. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere is Back for the First Time)
Biography
Working at the "Weekly Comet"
Max Murdock, a journalist, was an employee of the Weekly Comet alongside his best friend Foster Hearst. As a member of the inner circle of the paper, Hearst knew the truth: seemingly a typical untrustworthy supermarket tabloid, the Comet was really a cover for an organization dedicated to protecting the world's mysteries. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere is Back for the First Time)
Meeting Jenny Everywhere
Max Murdock met Jenny at Murphy's, a jazz club, after she kissed him while believing herself to be further along in the universe's timeline than she really was. Murdock informed Jenny that he had never met her before. Jenny explained that she was a pan-dimensional being from the future, where she had been in a relationship with Max. Later, Max told his friend Ito Masello that he couldn't be certain whether or not she was lying, as, he admitted, he didn't know everything about the universe.
As it transpired, Max's current romantic partner, Andrea Campos, had seen Jenny kiss Max. She confronted him about this at the office of the Weekly Comet, and he explained the situation. As they spoke, Jenny arrived and pulled Max aside, trying to warn him that, in the future, he had done something to anger Andrea, ending their relationship. Max stopped her, telling her that, since he didn't fully believe her, he would ignore anything she told him and do the opposite, and that not telling him was therefore the safest option. Jenny left, and Max returned to Andrea, apologized, and kissed her.
Later, while testing out an experimental disguise generator, Max spoke to Foster Hearst, who told him that he had seen Jenny vanish in a flash of light. Realizing that she had been telling the truth, Max called his boss, Millard Detweiler, and told him about the occurrence, suggesting that the Comet's next story should be about Jenny and her time-traveling abilities. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere is Back for the First Time)
In an alternate timeline
According to Jenny Everywhere, when she first visited Max's universe in what would later become an alternate version of the future, she began a relationship with Max Murdock. Although she loved him, she was eventually forced to shift away; she trusted Murdock enough to let him see her leave.
These events were later split off into an alternate timeline after Jenny interfered with the past. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere is Back for the First Time)
In an another universe
In one universe, an alternate version of Max had been married to Andrea Campos for fifteen years when Jenny Everywhere visited them on their wedding anniversary. Neither of them recognized her. (COMIC: Jenny Everywhere is Back for the First Time)
Behind the scenes
Origins
Max Murdock is one of the main protagonists of the the Scandal Sheet webcomic, of which Jenny Everywhere is Back for the First Time was a storylines as well as being a Jenny Everywhere story. Max's story prior to meeting Jenny is detailed in the storylines leading up to Back for the First Time, while his life thereafter is depicted in later storylines, all of which can be read on the comic's website, here.
- ↑ First appearance in directly Jenny-related media; actual debut was in 2002's In the Beginning.
