Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26516813-20190711012913/@comment-43304259-20190727235549

Personally, I am rather very skeptical about this particular character and the direction where the IDW team is currently going with this right now. What I am about to say is perhaps not a very popular opinion and I wouldn't be surprised if I get some heat for it. As I said, I am rather skeptical of the Jennika character. I've seen some people say that she is an established and developed character, and while the former is something I can say is a fact-- developed is something I would say she is something lacking, but keep in mind, this is my personal opinion.

She's been around for forty five or more issues so far, and her only notable moments are that she had killed Darius Dun, then later attempted to assassinate Master Splinter only to be beaten by him and then later worked on to undo the indoctrination and way of thinking of the Shredder, and then later propped up to be Casey's rebound girl which goes on for a number of issues, and then made a babysitter when Michelangelo brough the orphans to the Foot clan. Then later on she was gutted, and then mutated by a blood transfusion...

I mean to me, that's Jennika in a nutshell for forty five or more issues and I don't see a lot of development which a lot of people saying she had gone through. Also, I just have no real investment towards the character and I'd like to think I've given her a chance to do that. IDW's writing team has given us a plethora of wonderfully written female characters with colorful personalities but I just feel like Jennika falls flat in development and personality. To me, she's rather bland for the reasons I mentioned above. I just don't see what everyone else sees about her.

As for this direction? Honestly... I am not a fan of this creative choice, and I'm hoping she isn't a permenant fixture but if she is, then I really hope the IDW writing team redeems this character for me. I'm swallowing a very hard pill here and just feel as if four was a good number for the Turtles. That's what's been the status quo and worked for thirty years. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. You know?

But if she is permenant, then I just hope she's not an official member of Clan Hamato and is more aligned with the Foot clan or joins Alopex and Angel's team. They could use a third member. Form an all female fighting team which compliments the brothers. I just feel she'll be filling the role of Venus (sans the romance aspect) if she is inducted with the brothers, in that her gimmick is the girl Turtle... Make her a more loosely affiliated ally than a full on member, so that the dynamicism of the four brothers isn't tampered with too much.

Just my two cents anyway...