Yo, here’s a unique new strip called Yenny by David Alvarez. Yenny is a Puerto Rican wanna-be supermodel with oversized feet. I’ve read a few weeks of this strip and from what I can tell, her train doesn’t run on rails. She drives off to modeling college, crashes the car, hitchhikes on an ice cream truck, makes out with the ice cream guy, befriends other models at school and struggles with a bigfoot complex.

The art is well done in a modern, cartoony pinup sort of way with high-fashioned, expressive characters. However I feel the wonky perspective of the backgrounds do not fit the feel of the strip itself. David obviously likes drawing scantily clad girls over beach huts and ice cream trucks.

The writing, well let’s just say I had trouble finding one to showcase for the blog. The humor is derivative of typical amateur comic strip devices and not very original. Check this one out. Do you believe Yenny is actually thinking of giving up modeling? No. So the zinger is not much of a surprise.

If you read more of the strip, you’ll see this one stands out as an odd situation. The girls all seem fairly snobby about their lifestyle and campfire chats don’t quite fit in. Why hasn’t her friend’s hand caught fire? It almost does in panel two. Maybe it’s the power of her fireproof stick.

What do you think of Yenny?

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