My Monkey’s Name is Jennifer

(Slave Labor, 2002)
™ and ©2002 Ken Knudtsen

As writer/artist Ken Knudsten states on the inside front cover of this comic’s first issue: Jennifer is not a monkey. He’s more of an ape. Oh, right! And Jennifer is a he. See, Jennifer is the pet monkey of young Kaitlin, and he is constantly forced by her to participate in tea parties and other dress-wearing events. All the time, Jennifer has homicidal thoughts running through his head. Once he gets back his claws, which Kaitlin’s parents had clipped to save their draperies, he plans on exacting his revenge. They also had Jennifer “fixed” to keep him from molesting the stuffed animals. A dark comedy that delves into a strange world of mad scientists and equally strange skull-headed heroes, no predictions can be made as to what might happen next. Except that Jennifer will be angry and wearing a dress.

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