After a decade, Jessica Jones is back in an all-new solo series! This fall, one of the most complex characters of the Marvel Universe returns for an all-new mystery from the original creative team — Brian Michael Bendis (Civil War II, Invincible Iron Man, Spider-Man, Alias) Michael Gaydos (Alias, Avengers), and David Mack (Alias, Daredevil).
A lot has changed in the Marvel Universe over the past ten years and there are still many secrets hiding in the shadows. Secrets only a special woman like Jessica Jones can hope to uncover. So what haunting secrets from Jessica’s past come back to cause havoc? Speaking with IGN, series writer, Brian Michael Bendis said, “You’re going to find out about it in the first issue. We’re going to open up a book where Jessica’s world has blown up in her face. She’s at a place you’ll least expect her. You’re going to find all of her relationships have altered. And we’re slowly going to find out why.”
A lot has happened to Jessica Jones since her debut, but the biggest difference that will be a factor in this new series is the baby girl, Danielle, she had with husband, and former Avenger, Luke Cage.
“Luke and Jessica have tried to raise a baby in a very dangerous environment. We talked about this during [New] Avengers, you’re raising a baby in Avengers Mansion and somebody’s trying to knock that building over every four days…so your perspective changes, and as an investigator and a detective her perspective will change because she’s a mother,” continued Bendis. “I know some people are worried about that baby being dragged like a sack of potatoes that holds down the story or something, but I can think of many ways to tell the story celebrate this part of her life and at the same time complicates it to a degree that a lot of people can relate to. I think a lot of people can relate to trying to ‘do it all.’ Lord knows I can.”
What unsolved mysteries have fallen through the cracks and what dark secrets have been unrevealed within the Marvel Universe? Alias Investigations is open for business and Jessica Jones is on the case.
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I loved the original series when it first came out, and I recently re-read it before “Jessica Jones” hit Netflix. It still holds up. I am curious as to how this book will start in a place where all of her relationships have altered. We’ve seen her in Power-Man & Iron Fist and Patsy Walker A.K.A. Hellcat recently and her status quo is intact, so whatever happens must happen fairly quickly at the onset of the book? I do love in PM & IF how Luke has to go around using fake phrases instead of swear words, but when Danny stops by the Cage household, Jessica is as foul-mouthed as ever, lol. That series really does well to convey the dynamics of a married man hanging out with a single guy, and the single guy finding himself the outsider, thinking the wife hates him, while also getting in arguments with his friend over the control that the spouse exerts over him, trying not to over-step, and the married guy not wanting to sound “whipped”, but also not questioning his wife. One scene, it may have even been in the first issue, was one I have experienced myself and have seen others in this boat. When you are the friend of the married guy, and you think the wife doesn’t like you, but she barely knows you, even though you’ve crossed paths a bunch of times, and when she calls her hubby on the phone and you say “tell her I said Hi”… and they DON’T tell her you said Hi… Danny Rand finds himself in this predicament. That thought that if they knew you seemed nice & welcoming they’d like you better, but Luke telling it how it is, that saying “Hi” when she calls isn’t going to make a difference, but that she doesn’t hate him.
You know what’s a big secret of the Marvel Universe that’s close to Jessica Jones that Bendis has avoided pretty much ever since it happened? WHY DID DANI’S EYES GLOW GREEN WHEN THE SKRULL QUEEN WAS KILLED IN SECRET INVASION?? Bendis now shrugs it off that her eyes were just particularly bright in that scene, that it didn’t mean anything, but it clearly happened at That Moment for Some Reason; he just wants to sweep it under the rug. I always assumed they intended to reveal that either Luke or Jessica was a Skrull post-Secret-Invasion, but decided not to. Heaven help us if Secret Invasion II is on the slate for 2017, and Jessica Jones is the major lead-in for it. >I<
Don’t expect an actual answer about Dani’s eyes. It is just one of the countless plot points Bendis has brought-up and dropped. Remember the cliffhanger where Peter Parker was surprised to see who Miles Morales was in the 616 Universe? Now with Miles worked-in with the 616 that will never be brought-up again I bet.
I was actually figuring now that Miles is part of 616 they would *finally* be explaining that cliffhanger. And Peter was looking pretty startled, so it would have to be something pretty wild to garner that reaction.
There are a few other major dangling plots out there they are taking their sweet time getting back to, and it will drive me nuts if they never actually get around to it. They absolutely need to show us what Nick Fury said to Thor to make him Unworthy. There is just no reasonable excuse for them to never get back to that, and hopefully it’s happening in the newly-announced “The Unworthy Thor”.
And I am a big fan of The Runaways, who have now been kept on life-support through single characters appearing in various team books… but the last volume of their series ended on a cliffhanger; I wrote in to editorial for Years anticipating the series’ return; and still there are No Plans for The Runaways to return or the cliffhanger to be resolved. At least this one I can easily reconcile in my head; it would obviously have involved time travel; they’ve just waited far too long to even mention it, and the characters have moved on in various directions. Tom Brevoort initially told me that the series wasn’t even cancelled, it was just on “hiatus”, that they were re-tooling the concept to find a new way to make the title relevant; to have the Runaways actually running away from something again. At the time the series ended, at least one further issue had been solicited and was cancelled, and it obviously never came back from “hiatus”. But with all the times we’ve seen the Runaways since then, there hasn’t even been an off-hand comment to reference the events of the final issue of the last series…
As someone who loved the original, “Alias,” and reasonably enjoyed, “The Pulse,” I am excited for this. A part of me is sad it isn’t Marvel Max like the original book, however. I will miss those exclamations of, “FUCK!” whenever Jessica is mad. A bunch of symbols–“F$%&”–just isn’t the same. That said, Bendis is a writer who is very good at certain things and bad at others (I’m sick of him on team books) and Gaydos is superb too; I mean the original creative team has to rock!
David is the first person to have ever said Fuck on the site and gotten away with it since it was in context
Sorry for the foul language, but it literally is the FIRST word to appear in the original, “Alias,” and was way to let readers know, “This ain’t the Marvel you’re used to!”
lol no worries. I am very selective about cussing, I cuss like a sailor in real life but for google’s ranking I keep it to a limit. Penguin or whatever they use now hits site rankings for it.
Wait, seriously? Cursing can impact the way a blog appears in search stats? I don’t curse much on my blog but wonder what would happen if I did it more or even less. Interesting.