Title: Jennifer's BodyAuthor: Alan Robinson, Jim Mahfood, Ming Doyle, Nikki Cook, Rick Spears, Tim Seeley
First Published: September 8, 2009
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Pages: 112
Genre: Horror
Format: Web
Source: Web
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Synopsis:
The graphic novel tie-in to the forthcoming Megan Fox horror movie! JENNIFER’S BODY, written by JUNO writer and Academy Award-winner Diablo Cody, stars Fox as a demonically possessed cheerleader with a taste for killing teenage boys!
The movie event of the Fall is the comic book event of this Summer! JUNO's award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody brings you JENNIFER'S BODY starring Megan Fox as a demonically-possessed cheerleader with a taste for killing teenage boys! In this original graphic novel that ties into the movie and expands on its universe, BLACK METAL's Rick Spears brings you even more hellish Jennifer stories with art by HACK/SLASH's Tim Seely, THE CLERKS Jim Mahfood, DMZ's Nikki Cook and POPGUN's Ming Doyle.
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Jennifer’s Body is a cult classic film from the mid-2000s about a demon-possessed high school girl slashing her way through boys at school. It’s a campy movie, but can be entertaining at points. The graphic novel was produced as a tie-in to the film to give a little more back story for some of the characters.
Instead of Jennifer this graphic novel focuses heavily on the dudes that die in the movie, giving each of them a back story leading up to their final encounter with Jennifer. With the exception of Chip, all of the other male characters are unimportant. The project writer decided to focus on these characters, showing another side of them that would cause the readers to ask whether the they deserved to die or not. And honestly? I just wonder WHY.
It’s also very clear that the graphic novel was written before the completion of the film, as several scenes are different than what was in the final cut. The end result is a graphic novel that was honestly pretty boring, it misses the point of the film by centering boys, and Ahmed’s chapter was tone deaf. I was tempted to DNF halfway through.
Look, I like the idea of presenting the story from a different perspective. Hell, the prologue and epilogue are told from Jennifer’s point of view and if the graphic novel had focused more on her character it would have been better. This tie-in was wasted potential.
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“I don’t know but I feel just… Amazing. Like I got a devil in me, dying to get out.”
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About Alan Robinson
Alan Robinson is an accomplished comic book artist with more than a decade of professional experience, collaborating with some of the industry’s leading publishers, including Marvel Comics, IDW Publishing, Dark Horse Comics, Ahoy Comics, and Beyond Reality Media. His impressive body of work includes acclaimed titles such as New Fantastic Four, Back to the Future, V-Wars, Star Wars, Terminator, Planets of the Nerds, and Secret Battles of Genghis Khan. He is currently illustrating Predator vs. Planet of the Apes for Marvel Comics, continuing to bring his dynamic storytelling and distinctive style to some of the world’s most iconic franchises.
About Jim Mahfood
Jim Mahfood, a.k.a. Food One, is an American comic book creator. Apart from his creator-owned comic book series Grrl Scouts and his comic strip Stupid Comics, he also did work for Marvel Comics on various Spider-Man titles, including Ultimate Marvel Team-Up and Spectacular Spider-Man.
About Ming Doyle
Ming Doyle was born in 1984 to an Irish-American sailor and a Chinese-Canadian librarian. Since earning her BFA from Cornell University in 2007, she has depicted the sequential exploits of zombie superheroes, demonic cheerleaders, vengeful cowboys, and dapper mutants. TANTALIZE marks her first full-length graphic novel as well as her first encounter with a were-opossum. She lives in Boston.
About Tim Seeley
Tim Seeley is a comic book artist and writer known for his work on books such as G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, The Dark Elf Trilogy, Batman Eternal and Grayson. He is also the co-creator of the Image Comics titles Hack/Slash[1] and Revival, as well as the Dark Horse titles, ExSanguine and Sundowners. He lives in Chicago.
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