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Review – Jenny Finn #1 (Dark Horse)

Review – Jenny Finn #1 (Dark Horse)

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Writer(s): Mike Mignola, Troy Nixey Artwork: Troy Nixey, Dave Stewart (colours) Release Date: 15th November 2017 “Fresh fish!” Last week saw the re-release of one of Mike Mignola’s unsung classics, Jenny Finn.  Finally in colour, courtesy of the always stellar work of Dave Stewart, the series is set in the putrid docks of Victorian London and introduces us to our titular enigma as she quietly goes about her business in a city not only ravaged by a bizarre aquatic plague, but also at the mercy of a depraved serial killer. Mignola fully embraces the story’s Lovecraftian influences right from the get-go, with all manner of tentacles and supernatural whisperings of doom on display from the very first page.  Interestingly, Jenny herself isn’t the main focus of the narrative here, instead serving almost as a peripheral character for the time being, a potential antagonist who seems mostly oblivious to the horrors that are unfolding around her. Instead, Mignola and co-writer Troy Nixey frame the bulk of the story from the perspective of Joe, a fairly harmless and unremarkable dock worker who obliviously interjects himself into Jenny’s world, setting off a chain-reaction of violent and disturbing events in [...]



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