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Jinty: Fran Of The Floods
Due to increased climate change the sun melts the ice caps, causing an onslaught of never ending rain. As Fran Scott's town begins to disappear underwater and, after losing her parents in the chaos, she decides to seek out her sister June in Scotland. But as society begins to crumble around her, Fran must overcome a vast array of dangers, including disease, wild animals, marauding gangs of vicious thugs and most bizarre of all, the self-proclaimed King of Glasgow!
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116 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 19, 2019
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January 25, 2023
While the boys of 1976 Britain were thrilling to the brutality of Hook Jaw and Death Game 1999, Fleetway’s comics for girls like Jinty offered gentler fare, though you may be forgiven for doubting it as within 20 pages of Fran Of The Floods our starving heroine is preparing to bash Fluffy the rabbit’s head in with a stone while its horrified orphan owner cries “Fran! NO!”
Fluffy is spared, though is soon in equal peril from the local boot boys who have formed “the Black Circle” to bring “law and order” to a flooded Britain. They don’t last long either but in short order Fran and pal Jill have to deal with an abandoned ship, a plague village, and a host of other post apocalyptic menaces as they try to reach the apparent safety of the Scottish Highlands.
A briskly told cosy catastrophe, Fran Of The Floods is formulaic but a lot of fun, its three page episodes meaning incidents and resolutions come at a formidable clip. Generally the perils are more exciting than the solutions, which involve a ferocious degree of coincidence, but any eye-rolling on the reader’s part is short lived as there’ll be something else happening in a minute. Most incidents could have slotted happily into an equivalent story in Tiger or Victor even if there’s more emphasis on resourcefulness over action than you’d get in a 70s boys’ comic.
A supposed climate change theme is the hook that’s given Fran a reprint while most of Jinty’s armoury of psychic girls, blind horse riders and cursed disco dancers languish in comics limbo. It’s a bit of a weak excuse: the cause of the catastrophe is arbitrary and it’s best not to think too closely about the science. But the build up to disaster, with the adults keeping impending doom from the kids while society breaks down, is nicely done. As a distraction Fran’s school organises a concert at which Fran sings “We’ll Meet Again” just as a reservoir bursts and the town is engulfed. If that kind of on-the-nose melodrama delights you Fran Of The Floods is well worth a read.
Fluffy is spared, though is soon in equal peril from the local boot boys who have formed “the Black Circle” to bring “law and order” to a flooded Britain. They don’t last long either but in short order Fran and pal Jill have to deal with an abandoned ship, a plague village, and a host of other post apocalyptic menaces as they try to reach the apparent safety of the Scottish Highlands.
A briskly told cosy catastrophe, Fran Of The Floods is formulaic but a lot of fun, its three page episodes meaning incidents and resolutions come at a formidable clip. Generally the perils are more exciting than the solutions, which involve a ferocious degree of coincidence, but any eye-rolling on the reader’s part is short lived as there’ll be something else happening in a minute. Most incidents could have slotted happily into an equivalent story in Tiger or Victor even if there’s more emphasis on resourcefulness over action than you’d get in a 70s boys’ comic.
A supposed climate change theme is the hook that’s given Fran a reprint while most of Jinty’s armoury of psychic girls, blind horse riders and cursed disco dancers languish in comics limbo. It’s a bit of a weak excuse: the cause of the catastrophe is arbitrary and it’s best not to think too closely about the science. But the build up to disaster, with the adults keeping impending doom from the kids while society breaks down, is nicely done. As a distraction Fran’s school organises a concert at which Fran sings “We’ll Meet Again” just as a reservoir bursts and the town is engulfed. If that kind of on-the-nose melodrama delights you Fran Of The Floods is well worth a read.
February 23, 2024
Not my genre of book, but this young adult comic that follows a teenage girl during a world wide catastrophe of flooding is actually decent. The black and white art is solid if not standout, and the story is good for its genre.
May 26, 2021
This is a quite competent YA environmental apocalypse adventure, stocked with tropes, cliffhangers, and occasional oddball sequences. The art's a bit bland compared to the story, but still quite enjoyable. Overall quite charming.
June 17, 2019
This was fun. Sure, it is girly, but as an adventure it was fun.
June 30, 2019
3.5 Fran Scott is a typical teenager until a freak change in solar heat melts the ice caps and Britain floods. With her parents apparently dead, Fran sets out to find her sister in the Scottish highlands, which may be the last dry patch of land in Britain. Ahead of her are outlaw slavers, crashed liners, crazed animals, sunken cities, disease, orphaned children and at the journey's end there's the King of Glasgow.
This is a good teen's-eye-view apocalypse.
This is a good teen's-eye-view apocalypse.
February 21, 2022
A 70s tale of global warming and environmental catastrophe, part of the good old school of British YA apocalypses. As normal life disintegrates, kids have to find a way to survive in the terrible world that follows.
The end issue ties things up a bit too neatly for my tastes but the journey is great.
The end issue ties things up a bit too neatly for my tastes but the journey is great.
August 19, 2022
After reading three volumes of "Misty" and now this, I'm realising that girls had some great comics when I was growing up in the 1970s. The fact that "Misty" and "Jinty" were marketed as girls' comics seems to be purely down to the sex and age of the protagonists in the stories: teenage girls. The stories also tend to be set in present day reality, in contrast to, say, Mega-City 1.
"Fran of the Floods" is a great apocalyptic tale about the entire county suffering massive floods, to the point where there's almost no land left. It's about a hundred pages long, with three pages per chapter/issue, each one typically ending with a cliffhanger. I was gripped throughout. It could have been a five-star read, except for the rather unlikely and far too neat ending. Recommended. I will be looking out for more vintage girls' comics.
"Fran of the Floods" is a great apocalyptic tale about the entire county suffering massive floods, to the point where there's almost no land left. It's about a hundred pages long, with three pages per chapter/issue, each one typically ending with a cliffhanger. I was gripped throughout. It could have been a five-star read, except for the rather unlikely and far too neat ending. Recommended. I will be looking out for more vintage girls' comics.
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