Bizarro Fiction

I ripped off the art style directly from a panel. This is a piece I don't think I should be allowed to stylize, being so awesome.

Jennie 2.5 is the tragically ironic anti-media, anti-government, anti-everything heroine of the story. She, not too unlike her author Brian Wood, is incredibly sick of the way the world is repressing, controlling, and subduing an otherwise unthinking, uncaring populous. Tagged throughout the book are pages meant to be xeroxed and reprinted, stuck on the sides of buildings, poles, garage doors, cars, anywhere and everywhere with messages that seem to justify an end to a means (usually, if not exclusively, an outcry for violence, as with a gun and suggestive, clever text). This is where Jennie 2.5 seems to differ from her writer in that she is absolutely no holds barred when it comes to being pushed to the edge of what she can take. Her message is timeless, as with every culture in the world having made some advancement through a means of anarchy, and though the ending appears ironic and pointless, Wood really wants you to pay attention to what's happened and what's happening. He must want her message to be taken lightly, or at least appear to be. He may himself be a peaceful person, but he is an angry writer. He knows that anger and a drive to stop being stomped on starts with a spark, and a recognizable image is all you need to put fear into your opponent's heart.

This is made most obvious when he basically compared the revolutionary Che Guevara to Jenny 2.5. He knows the reputation Che has even many years after his death, and I feel like this may be a subtle way at rousing the reader to understand and fight for similar ideologies. Even if all you do is wear a shirt with the man's head, you are at least aware that he was not a man who did not, could not, allow for the government to control him so long as there was breath in his body. So though Jenny does become a media star, which she seems to be okay with even though it's exactly what she was fighting against, she leaves out that there is such a thing as positive attention that can be drawn through the media. If Wood asks you to print his anarchist signs everywhere, than he probably wants someone to see them. He probably wants someone to get angry or afraid. He probably had hopes of seeing these things all around the local streets, people fighting for their rights, as well as a life where what you hear is no longer absolutely controlled. And as much as he wants you to wear a Che shirt, he probably wants you to know exactly what it stands for, and exactly why you should wear it. If nothing else at all, he wants you to at least realize what the world is doing to you, and that you should be fed up.