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Giger Van Gogh:

Well, there is one more very noteworthy thing about Jennika. The oft-overlooked story What is Ninja? is chiefly about her. It mostly tells her story with pictures, but those details say a lot, giving a glimpse into her head. I also remember her role in , where her loyalty to Splinter went beyond the merely theoretical into real life-or-death decisions regarding Kitsune and Alopex that were Jenny's own decisions to make as a character. And while it's true that Jenny perhaps hasn't had quite as much opportunity to differentiate herself as a character as a few of the other women characters in the IDW series, perhaps all she needs is a good story that gets into her head even more. I already liked Jenny when issue #95 happened. It's hard not to. And all things considered, a less restrained writer could have written her much, much worse before now.

Also, I wouldn't even come close to characterizing Jenny as "Casey's rebound girl," and I would think it demeaning and dismissive to do so. Casey and April broke up a long time ago now, and Casey has been single since then. From what I've seen, this is Casey and Jenny coming into their chemistry on their own where April is not even a serious question mark. The story doesn't use April as a character that often anymore, either, outside of dealing with Baxter and TCRI. Honestly, when Casey started dating Jenny soon before IDW's City at War started, I wasn't comparing Jenny to April at all&mdash;I was comparing her to Gabrielle, and wondering if Jenny would become the mother of a rebooted version of Shadow Jones, which now seems less likely.