OVERVIEW:

Jane's World stars the loveable misfit, Jane Wyatt. It's a comic full of "girl-on-girl action, chicks with guns, a vegan menace, vintage Winnebagos, drag queens and downward career spirals. You know, the usual-for stability-challenged Jane.

Whether it's friends who see her as one of the guys (her roommate Ethan), women who see her as a fixer-upper (vegan surfer Skye), or figures of mystery who find themselves attracted to her in spite of themselves (badass ex-cop Chelle), or just nice, normal women (Jane's on-again, off-again girlfriend Dorothy), everyone around her finds themselves being sucked into the maelstrom of drama, coincidences, and serious enmeshment issues that surround Jane. The results are funny, sexy, silly, and sometimes dramatic-the last thanks mostly to the flashbacks of Chelle and her current (romantic and otherwise) ex-partner Jill's days as cops and the resultant side plots that continue to unfold in the storyline's present day.

In short, Jane is a magnet for the kind of drama that makes for good comedy.

-- Sean Carroll, TheDailyCrossHatch.com

 
MAIN CHARACTERS:

 

Jane:
Jane Wyatt is one of those people to whom things just happen. She combines mild-mannered amiability and indecision with a severe lack of style and nutrition-savvy, not to mention she is just plain wishy-washy. She also seems to be (slightly) irresistible to women, much to her own bewilderment, since she doesn't seem to have the vaguest of clues how to deal with them (she happens to be a lesbian). She also works at a newspaper… when she actually has a job.

 

Chelle:
Chelle Archer (pronounced shell) is a bit of a dark character with a background in Special Ops. She and Jane dated briefly, but broke it off when they reached the conclusion that the other was more and more the kind of person who annoyed them. In 2003, while working at the local newspaper, Chelle blew her secret cover and was revealed to be an undercover operative for an intelligence agency. After her grandfather died she inherited a large sum of money, she open up her own private detective agency and is now able to operate as a free agent on projects of her own choosing.

 

Ethan:
Unlike many of the characters in the strip, Ethan Klein isn't gay. He is straight, and he is Jane's roommate. He likes to point out from time-to -time that he does, however, have strong lesbian tendencies. Ethan is likeable, laid back and generally unmotivated. He left a tech support job to work in Dorothy's coffee shop because the hours were more flexible. Ethan and Jane have one big thing in common… neither of them understand women.

 

Jill:
Jill James, ex-Navy, ex-cop, came late into Jane's World. She showed up one day looking for Chelle. It seems Chelle's estranged, lesbian mother hired her to find Chelle. Jill and Chelle were partners on the police force after they graduated from the academy, and then were both recruited to work for the same intelligence agency. Of course romance followed and they became romantically involved while working together. Theirs is a volatile off and on romance.

 

Dorothy:
Dorothy is Jane's best friend from college, and occasional crush. Dorothy is bisexual, but doesn't usually admit it. Although she has a graduate degree in English, Dorothy now works at and co-owns a coffee shop with her mother. Dorothy seems to be ever critical of Jane's life choices and once even went so far as to hire her a life coach. Sometimes friendship gets confused with attraction and Jane and Dorothy end up having these romantic encounters that they both later regret.

 

Skye:
Skye is a local vegan surfer who also happens to be an ex-missionary and Jane's current love interest. She works at The Garden of Vegan, the one and only vegan restaurant in Spud Point. Skye and Jane's biggest issue is their food incompatibility, which will probably not be easily overcome, unless someone invents an organic, sprouted wheat donut that doesn't taste like glazed sawdust.