Jennifer Blood: First Blood #5 Review


Complications abound as the road to revenge gets more complicated, but is this latest issue really worth your time?  Read on to find out.

The official description from Dynamite:

For twelve years, Jessica Blute has successfully hidden her blood-drenched past, but deep down she has always known that her new life as Jennifer Fellows was at best a temporary fix.

Now, caught spying on Wendell Cortland by his henchman Rudy Hooper, Jen is forced to take action, finally setting in motion a chain of events that will change her life forever…

… and God help anyone who gets in her way.

Jennifer Blood has some problems to tackle.  She has to deal with her immediate decisions while building up toward her true first kill.  At the moment, that’s gotten rather sticky as an unnecessary body comes into play and all the potential dilemmas surrounding it.

Mike Carroll pens the script and the author does an outstanding job keeping the focus strictly on our protagonist.  He gives the audience a text rich outing that drags a bit from time to time.  But for the most part the smart dialogue and solid development found therein keeps the pace flowing, if not consistently than somewhat predictably.  I was particular floored with the thought process our heroine goes through as she rationalizes her reaction to the body and how she looks to solve this latest little speed bump in her way.

The art by Igor Vitorino is impressive from the first panel to the final page.  The pencil strokes found here illuminate the narrative while building the foundations to a world that has become familiar over the last several years.  There were a few instances where the illustrations, specifically near the release’s midway point, suffered a bit as an overabundance of detail buried the subtleties of sequences under unnecessary visual exposition.  Overall though the total work on display fits within the confines of this universe.

Jennifer Blood: First Blood #5 is a solid penultimate issue for this mini-series and despite some scuffs along the way the finished product is certainly good enough to earn a recommendation.

3.5/5

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