Bad girl, Jill has come back into Chelle's life and has stirred up some old wounds with Chelle and certain members of her family. Jane gets talked into attending a furries convention with her ex, Talia, and then sent out on location for a monster truck rally. Lesbian drama and monster trucks... it just doesn't get any better than that!
Paige Braddock is a Sparky Award winner, an Eisner-nominated artist and writer, and Creative Director Emeritus at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates. She won a Children's & Family Emmy Award for her work on the Apple documentary, "Who Are You, Charlie Brown?" which won for outstanding nonfiction program.
Braddock has illustrated several Peanuts children’s books. Her other graphic novels for children include the series Stinky Cecil with Andrews McMeel and Peanut, Butter, & Crackers with Penguin Kids. New editions of the Peanut, Butter, & Crackers series are now available in the UK, Italy, Greece, and in Arabic by publisher Nosy Crow.
She lives with her wife Evelyn and their two dogs and a cat in Sebastopol, California.
Picking up where volume 4 ended (Jill, Chele's on-again off-again girlfriend, had reunited with Chele, but then 'everything' fell apart when it turned out that Jill has let Chele's mother know where she now lives). Volume 5 picks up with Jill finding Chele's mother, Virginia, in her room -which is also where volume 4 ended.
Before Virginia can get too far in her seduction of her daughter's girlfriend, the mother's wife, Ted, breaks into the room and starts beating up Jill. Despite being a trained operative (spy/police/other), Jill is quite unable to properly defend herself. Virginia and Ted then leave and Jill lies around all injured and stuff.
Meanwhile . . . stuff happens. heh. I read three volumes in a row while ill. I've a fairly good recollection of what happened in what I read, but not which specific tidbit went with each specific volume.
Let's see - also in this specific volume - former girlfriend Talia drags Jane to a furries convention; then her newspaper job sends Jane to a monster truck show (wherein she runs into another person from her past - Bobbie, who happens to mention that she is not actually single, she's married to a guy named Ted).
Chele may or may not confront her mother in this volume (or it's in the next volume).
Good solid story. Not as humorous as some in the past, nor as weird and wacky as Jane comics can get - like later volumes I read (one literally has Jane become a bunny, not like this volume where Jane wore a dog furry suit, but become an actual bunny, albeit one that wears clothing and is a biped).