Jane's World: 5-7 by Paige Braddock

Jane's World: 5-7 by Paige Braddock
Pages: 149 + 160 + 152 = 461
Date: May 23 2006, October 17 2006, July 3 2007
Publisher: Girl Twirl Comics
Series: Jane's World (5th through 7th in series)

Review
Rating: 3.50 + 3.50 + 3.75= 10.75/3= 3.5833
Read: April 4 2017

Picking up where volume 4 ended (Jill, Chele's on-again off-again girlfriend, had reunited with Chele, but then 'everything' fell apart when it turned out that Jill has let Chele's mother know where she now lives). Volume 5 picks up with Jill finding Chele's mother, Virginia, in her room -which is also where volume 4 ended.

Before Virginia can get too far in her seduction of her daughter's girlfriend, the mother's wife, Ted, breaks into the room and starts beating up Jill. Despite being a trained operative (spy/police/other), Jill is quite unable to properly defend herself. Virginia and Ted then leave and Jill lies around all injured and stuff.

Meanwhile . . . stuff happens. heh. I read three volumes in a row while ill. I've a fairly good recollection of what happened in what I read, but not which specific tidbit went with each specific volume.

Let's see - also in this specific volume - former girlfriend Talia drags Jane to a furries convention; then her newspaper job sends Jane to a monster truck show (wherein she runs into another person from her past - Bobbie, who happens to mention that she is not actually single, she's married to a guy named Ted).

Chele may or may not confront her mother in this volume (or it's in the next volume).

Good solid story. Not as humorous as some in the past, nor as weird and wacky as Jane comics can get - like later volumes I read (one literally has Jane become a bunny, not like this volume where Jane wore a dog furry suit, but become an actual bunny, albeit one that wears clothing and is a biped).

Rating: 3.50

April 5 2017

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As I noted in my review for volume 5, I was ill when I read this and I read three volumes back to back (not actually all in a row since there was a nap here or there), so some of the information that got lodged in my brain might correspond to a different volume than this one.

Let's see - in this one Jane's mother visits. Jane believes that the mother still doesn't know Jane is a lesbian and so tries to get Skye, her current girlfriend, to stop trying to 'ruin' things - while also 'using' her roommate Ethan as a stand-in boyfriend. Apparently Jane has been using Ethan for this purpose for eons now.

Meanwhile, Dorothy and Jane sleep together (yes, while Jane is still dating Skye), and Dorothy is attempting to figure out what this means. And if they can actually have a relationship. Skye, in the meantime, is attempting to 'reform' Jane so that she stops eating junk food (in this or the next volume, Dorothy and Skye show up and won't leave before the other, so Jane bails - while Jane is out of sight, Skye throws away all of Jane's junk food (which basically means all of Jane's food since she doesn't really eat much but for junk food)).

Let's see let's see. Jill 'has an assignment' that takes her into snowy territory and does or doesn't sleep with another woman while she may or may not still be 'dating' Chele (it's all a blur in my mind; like, who the fuck gave Jill this assignment? Last I heard, Jill and Chele had been thinking about starting their own agency but hadn't yet - though both quit wherever they did work - so, again, who the fuck gave Jill this assignment? I'm completely confused).

I think this is also the volume when the aliens return Dixie to earth and she promptly restarts a relationship with Ethan (this or the prior volume . . . I think). Why did the aliens return her? Because, apparently, Dixie is so girly that she was messing up the space-ship - just like she had done with Jane's place - which included the aliens suddenly finding themselves wearing floral print outfits. Because . . . um . . Dixie is very femme? Something.

Despite the cover illustration - Jane and Chele do not, in fact, hook up again in this volume, nor, unless I missed it, do they ride around on her motorcycle. Or maybe they did. This was a confusing volume.

Rating: 3.50

April 5 2017

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At either the start of this volume or the end of the last volume, Jill is kidnapped and the kidnappers (who have been seen in the Jane's World comics before, they are the Nevada Mullet Liberation Army (or something like that)) have informed Chele that she can have Jill back for $2 million.

Oh - the description for this volume just reminded me - Jill looks remarkably like the woman Virginia, Chele's mother, loved way back when. Believing . . . um . . that Virginia would stop trying to hump Jill if Rachel was back in Virginia's life, Chele and Jill begin a hunt to track down this woman (I believe this hunt actually started in the last volume, but maybe it started in this one).

Meanwhile Ted is attempting to get someone to mess up Bobbie's truck so he . . I mean she can make money off Bobbie losing. Ted has no redeeming qualities.

Meanwhile, Jane helps Rick on his annual 'drive into the desert in drag' event by driving an RV.

Eventually, somewhere along the way (and yes I do recall how and why it happened (heh, no, 'Vortex' wtf? I don't know why)) Jane turns into a bunny and Jill turns into a fox.

Despite people becoming their totem animals, and a lot of other wild stuff occurring, this was a lot more coherent volume than the previous one.

Rating: 3.75

April 5 2017