Yenny
Yenny is a newspaper comic strip (also available online) written by David Alvarez. It began in 1988 as a comic called Zacha & Anyelín, and it originated in a Puerto Rican newspaper, and has been running on GoComics for nearly a decade straight.
It stars Yenny, a sexy but short-tempered Puerto Rican girl who dreams of becoming a top model, but fails because her feet are too big. Despite all the Fan Service, the series mostly features Looney Tunes-type humor (Alvarez also used to draw DC Comics' Looney Tunes series). Other characters include: her mother, Yunny, who is as sexy as her daughter (and even tougher); their sarcastic pet lizard, Zacha; Yenny's best friend, Tomato, and her rival, stuck up rich girl Margot.
On Halloween, 2011, Dave announced that Yenny's run on GoComics would end and he would no longer seek a supporter for a mainstream syndicated comic strip run in the United States, let alone an animated project, citing executive meddling, racism toward the people of the state despite them being an official commonwealth area of America, and fear of a sexy Puerto Rican lead role being a bad role model for audiences. He will continue her adventures in full-page volumes instead of daily comic strips. However, Dave later announced the daily strips would be continued by another artist if he had to find one. Besides, Dave is storyboarding on the second season of The Looney Tunes Show.
Yenny contains examples of:
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Zacha wears a collar.
- Alpha Bitch: Margot.
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: She can be nice to Yenny and Tomato, she even hangs out with them most of the time.
- Badass Bookworm: Tomato; she's a bookworm and she's great at sports.
- Bare Your Midriff
- Black Best Friend: Tomato, though she's also Puerto Rican.
- The Casanova: Yenny's brother, Yomar, who incidentally is dating Margot.
- Crossover: For a full week in Baldo, Yenny communicated with that strip's title character via the internet.
- For that matter, Yenny also had a crossover with The Flintstones. It was All Just a Dream, though.
- Deadpan Snarker: Zacha.
- Digital Piracy Is Evil: In a story arc, Yenny goes to see the first Transformers movie at a theater, but Zacha takes a camera with her to record the movie off the screen and sell pirated DVDs of it, much to Yenny's annoyance.
- Does Not Like Shoes: As you might expect with all the Foot Focus, Yenny goes barefoot a lot.
- Dogged Nice Guy: Poor Kelso.
- Foot Focus: Duh.
- Four-Fingered Hands: The entire cast.
- Friendly Enemies: Yenny and Margot. Margot picks on her a lot, but they still hang out together and Margot even invites Yenny to some of her parties. She'll even help Yenny at times.
- Goth: The Gothic twins.
- Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!: Abuela Yanny.
- Half-Identical Twins: Yenny and Yomar are half-identical half-sibling twins.
- Hot Dad: Rafa.
- Hot Mom: Yunny.
- Idiot Hero: Yenny, sometimes.
- Impossible Hourglass Figure
- Invisible Streaker: Yenny became one for a week in October and November 2005.
- Make Me Wanna Shout: In an April 2006 arc, Zacha gets on Yenny's nerves by bragging to her about Kelso, but upon seeing Kelso behind a rock, Yenny shouts for him so loud that she causes a giant earthquake in Puerto Rico, which even injures her badly so she was delivered to the hospital. A few days later, when Yenny is playing with Buk the sea turtle, he bites Yenny's toe and she shouts loudly again causing another earthquake and goes back to the hospital.
- Mama Bear: Yunny.
- Meganekko: Tomato.
- Mr. Fanservice: Yomar. He also Really Gets Around.
- Ms. Fanservice: Yenny, but most of the female cast counts too.
- The Prankster: Zacha. She even messes with Yenny's Facebook page!
- Pretty Boy: Yomar.
- Relationship Upgrade: In the early strips, Kelso had a crush on Yenny and the strip played up his nervousness and awkwardness around her as much as possible. They have since become a couple, and then broke up, and then Kelso hooked up with someone else.
- Relax-O-Vision: Happens in a couple of spring 2006 strips.
- Rich Bitch: Margot.
- The Quiet One: Yomar.
- She Cleans Up Nicely/Beautiful All Along: Tomato.
- She's Got Legs
- Shout-Out: There was a strip where Yenny dressed up as The Spirit.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Yenny and Yomar.
- Small Annoying Creature: Zacha.
- Spicy Latina: Spicy Boriqua, actually. And they're everywhere.
- Statuesque Stunner: Keyla. We've only seen her face once.
- Talking Animal: Zacha.
- Theme Naming: Yenny, Yunissa,Yenny's mother, Yomar, Yenny's brother and Yessy, her baby sister.
- Tickle Torture: Yenny has the most sensitive skin in the world. This was played for all the fanservice/humor possible in the early strips.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Kelso and Yomar very rarely have shirts on.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: Rafael, Yenny, Yomar and Yessy's father.
- White-Haired Pretty Girl: Margot.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Yenny herself. She gets it from her father.
- Your Cheating Heart: Rafael and Yomar have this in common.