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Jump Start offers an authentic, positive representation of middle-class African Americans with charm and insight born of personal experience. Joe and Marcy Cobb, stars of Jump Start, are a young African-American couple working hard to balance the demands of their careers - he's a police officer, she's a nurse - with a loving marriage and warm family life. Together, they look happily towards the future, hoping their hectic schedules will give them enough time to see each other and to enjoy the company of their young daughter, Sunny, and toddler son, Jojo. Many readers see themselves reflected in Jump Start's scenario. "I'm thrilled that people say that," says Armstrong. "I'm drawing about my life; about a black couple because I'm black. Nearly every married couple I know is like Joe and Marcy. The image of young blacks is so skewed, so false. I don't know anybody who's carjacking, playing basketball, rapping. Joe and Marcy and the characters I've developed are deep and based on real life."
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