I'll read anything Garth Ennis writes, even a weaker title like this female Punisher knock-off. Jennifer Blood is out for revenge against a crime family of five brothers. The narration is a bit annoying, going for a humorous slant of a hardcore Frank Castle vigilante who waxes lovingly about weaponry in one sentence and worries about picking the kids up from school in the next.

I might have liked this more if I read it when it first came out and before I watched Promising Young Woman.

Also, it would have helped if we got to know any of the people for more than a page or two before they died. It's pretty much, here's a scumbug, and now here's a dead scumbag. The big origin reveal was underwhelming and anticlimactic. Overall, the book has a little action and a lot of gore, but very little suspense.

But I already have the next one downloaded on Hoopla, so onward we go. ( )

Any time I can pick up something by Garth Ennis, I probably will as he has given me a fair bit of cheeky entertainment over the years. This was just sitting around in online bargain bins waiting for me to find the energy to click buy. The real prize would be collections of his Punisher runs, but in the meantime, I'll read this kind of thing all day. ( )

I can see where some people might find this a good graphic novel but it left me sorta cold, it was all completely over the top and very, very graphic.

Jen Fellows is an average suburban housewife, having to deal with all the household tasks, while also secretely dealing death and torture to four men, her uncles, who killed her parents (graphically shown in some detail) in a variety of ways, all of them quite vicious. I know that many fans of this series are in my friends but this is not my bag.

If I hadn't been asked to read this to assess it's graphic content I probably would never have looked at it, it was interesting but not my kind of thing. What actually made me quite squirmy was the assertion that it was light, trivial reading, it's not. ( )

This book collects the first six issues of Jennifer Blood from Dynamite. It was written by the now veteran of the field Garth Ennis - writer of The Boys, Hellblazer, Preacher, Hitman, Just a Pilgrim and many more. The art duties were carried out by Adriano Batista, Marcos Marz and Kewber Baal.

On the surface, Jen Fellows is a typical American, suburban housewife. She has a loving, if slightly boring, husband with whom she has had two children - Mark and Alice - the perfect nuclear family. But Jen has a secret. At night she drugs her family and takes to the streets delivering justice to a notorious crime family the Blutes. But for Jen the attacks on the Blutes are more than just vigilantism for the target of each of her attacks is one of her uncles.

Ennis invites comparison to the Punisher with the very first page of this series:



And while she has had her life torn apart by the actions of criminals just like the Punisher, the focus of her attacks, at least in this book, is desire for revenge on the specific men who killed her father and destroyed her mother. But unlike the Punisher she has built a new life beyond the revenge she seeks and must take extraordinary steps to protect her new family.

According to an interview in the back of the book this series sees Ennis returning to the lighter side of life. Fortunately for his fans the usual elements are still in place - black humour, sexual deviancy and a high, gory body count. This is a great story and a good introduction to the character. I will be interested to see where he takes it now given that her initial revenge has been satisfied and her peeping tom neighbour has discovered her secret - though not the secret he initially thought it was. One slight annoyance was a change of artist midway through issue 3 which was slightly disorienting due to the main bad guys not looking the same as they did just the page before but despite this recommended for fans of Ennis. ( )