This prequel to Garth Ennis' ongoing "Jennifer Blood" is an obvious attempt at getting back to the "reasonable" original story in which Jennifer attempts to take out the people who murdered her father. While that ultra-violent revenge fantasy could be tolerated based on the fact that she only killed bad guys, the whole thing derailed and pretty soon she was killing innocent bystanders.

So what's an author to do? Well, he goes back to the root idea and now starts telling the story of how she became to be, and how she prepared for the confrontation with the criminal organization that murdered her father (who was far from an innocent man, by the way). But ultimately this is just more of what we've seen in the first dozen or so issues of "Jennifer Blood", with additional flashbacks.

I don't mind a trashy read, but this is largely a retread of paths we already know from the original series -- and let's not forget that one wasn't exactly a paragon of originality either.

(Please note that I read the individual issues, not the TPB.) ( )