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[Link] Everything Jake [Date] 6/1/00 [Comments] 
I have a pretty big gripe about this comic. It's POV is painfully immature. It's the story of Jake, college freshman, who is humiliated in this comic in just about every possible way. Women are portrayed as irrational sex objects. Most of the characters are stupid. So why do I check it every single day (it's 7 days a week), causing me to recommend it here? Strangely, it's entirely possible that all of this is intentional, and what we're seeing is successfull POV writing. Embarassing or not, I kind of like Jake anyhow. But most of all, it's so nicely drawn. Keep checking it; I think it's really going to turn into something. Update 7/15/02Everything Jake is still around, which is a good reason to revisit my review. The author is struggling against the usual herculean odds of keeping a daily comic going. These days it's mostly MWF and a lot of text in between the drawings. I like the superhero mystery, which we still don't get to see more than a tiny bit of, and I still like the characters. But in between that there are some really rough parts that just can't reconcile. Monster points off for actually using technobabble like "Energy Signature".
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