JESSICA JONES: ALIAS VOL. 2

A great book about an overlooked former superheroine who manages to hover around many of Marvel's New York based elite level heroes. She's a mess and she knows it, but not how to fix it, so she focuses on whatever case she can get. Noir storylines in comic book form. Great.

I originally bought the Alias Vol1 in paperback, and enjoyed it enough to want the next Vol2. So i decided to try it out on the Kindle app (I'm using a Galaxy Tab S), and was disappointed. The kindle forces you to read it in portrait mode (that's ok, makes sense) but locations (i.e. pages) 4, 11-13, 27, 34, 20, 48-49, 60-61, 79, and 111-115 are in landscape mode! The writing ends up tiny and you can't "zoom" in .... i had to put the screen so close to my face - my friends thought I was sniffing the the graphics! Siiiigh. Anyway, Jessica Jones is a great story, but I'll stick to the printed hardcopies forthe rest of the Volumes.Update: I went ahead and raised the rating, because after poking around (literally!) ... i found out that you can double tap the screen on the kindle app and it will zoom in to the particular graphic panel on the page ... then basically just read the whole thing panel by panel. I still wish the kindle app would just let you pinch in/out to zoom, but I'll take whatever i can get. Made a great read even better.

I started reading these after seeing one striking image online from the comic book. I'm pleasantly delighted with the format used by Kindle to make each part of the page readable, crisp, and beautiful.The nuanced artwork complements the hardboiled detective/ former superhero storyline I appreciate the different style used in the episode covers and villages as well.This isn't an Archive comic book - there is profanity, adult situations, and a fuller range of emotions than malt shop basics. I love it for that.

Collects issues 11-15Issues 11-14: Jessica investigates the case of a missing high school girl who was rumored to be a mutant. All the usual anti-mutant sentiment comes into play.Issue 15: She goes on a date with Scott Lang (Ant-Man), after telling Luke Cage she already has plans for the evening. (They're acting as bodyguards for Matt Murdock, who the tabloids claim is Daredevil.)This volume maintains the high quality of the previous volume. Fewer naughty words this time, I think. I recommend starting with that one.Note: they moved issue 10 to volume 3. This makes sense, as in issue 10 J. Jonah Jameson hires Jessica, and Jameson is also an important character in the issue 16-21 story.

I enjoyed this book and how real Jessica is as a person. She is so humanly flawed and uses language the way people do in real life. Probably the best marvel series I have come across. Can't wait to see it come to life on Netfix, although I believe Jessica will not be the same bad mouthed drunk slut we have come to love.

Brian Bendis's dialogue continues to really shine in this volume of Alias, although it does tip into a kind of liberal preachiness that makes the metaphor of X-man even more explicit than it already was. This does limit the effectiveness of the comic as Jones's personality in clash with small town values only really works when both sides are presented sympathetically, which Bendis tries to do except when he equates being a mutant to being gay to being Jewish. Still the cliche is slightly avoided and complicated in the end of the story when there is a different tragic turn. Yet Jessica Jones and Bendis can't quite completely eat the simplification of the politics they have presented or the caricature of rural life. However, Bendis does a lot of make what are essentially talking heads extremely interesting. For example, Jones date with Ant-man is a joy to read and is mostly semi-realistic quippy dialogue of a first date. There is a lot of character building in Bendis and he is incredibly good at it, and this will always be the primary strength of Jessica Jones.

This is the second volume of 'Alias' (what's now being rebranded as 'AKA Jessica Jones). This volume directly follows the first volume, so make sure you pick that up before jumping into this one.Without getting into spoilers: this volume continues the story of Jessica, and things start to pick up. This is presumably where the plotline that the new Netflix series will pick up, so it's definitely worth a read.

Started promising. Ended meh. Im not blown away. There isn’t enough overarching story to me. The angle of her dating seems predictably bad. It’s bound to end in tragedy. I probably won’t be reading the next one.

Historia corta de JJ escrita por Bendis. Me agrada que tome elementos del cómic Daredevil que el mismo Bendis escribió.

Not as strong as the first volume but Ms Jones keeps ploughing her lonely field.

Before you discover the Netflix show or fi you want to know more about Jessica's univers & stories this is quite awesome

From watching some of the previews of the Netflix show, Jessica makes more use of her "powers" on television than in the comic book. These are detective stories with a few super hero references. In this volume, the main story is about a missing girl - who may or may not be a mutant (clue discussions about mutant rights). In the volume one, she was looking for a woman's husband (who happened to be called Rick Jones.The main point of comparison is the She-Hulk books (in these books the main character is a lawyer)

These series of graphic novels are really incredible and bendis has done a beautiful job.Also the illustration is incredible and worthy of the read alone.