Jessica Jones 4: Alias

This comic opens with a flashback to when Jessica was a teenager and was in a car wreck with an army vehicle that was carrying hazardous materials. Her family died but she ended up with the ability to fly and have super strength after being in a coma for six months. She gets adopted by a nice couple and decides to use her powers to fight bad guys as the superhero Jewel.Back in today's timeline, she is looking for a good case to take on and Carol Danvers, Captain Marvel, sends her one. A group of people has been affected by a man known as Killgrave and they want her help in getting justice. Killgrave, or the Purple Man, has the ability to make you do anything he wants you to do. You want to do it too. At least at the time. He does it with pheromones so when you get away from him his influence is gone. Before Killgrave was captured, he held Jessica in his thrall. He made her do all manner of things against her will.Jessica goes to see Killgrave and when he escapes she blames herself and worries about what he might do to her or others. The artwork in this comic is very interesting. At the beginning is a very retro classic from the 1960s. The Jewel sequences are sleek over-the-top modern superhero type art. The Jean Grey parts are very sophisticated and look like they belong in an X-Men comic. This was a killer book that even at times made attempts to as they say in the theater "break the fourth wall". Also, Jessica's love life is about to get complicated as Luke Cage starts coming around again while she's still dating Scott. I highly recommend this book.

It had cardboard on each side and was inserted into 2 padded mail slips. Perfect condition

This is the end of Alias, the Marvel Max series, but not the end of Jessica Jones. Her story continues in The Pulse, also written by Brian Bendis. And it's a good thing I know that, otherwise this volume would have gotten three stars.So this volume has two arcs. The first is a quick back story on Jessica on how she got her powers. Other than the cheesy way they shoehorn her into the spiderman continuity (they went to high school together), this was a pretty decent couple of issues.The second volume is the one this series is most known for, featuring Jessica's history with Kilgrave. Kilgrave is one creepy bastard in this collection, and the pain and woe he leaves in his wake is a sight to behold. The whole thing functions as a metaphor for abuse, and it succeeded in that regard.The problem comes in the last issue when they tried t wrap up. I didn't hate how they dealt with Kilgrave, even if they went for a more 'empowering' method that didn't make a ton of sense. But in the last few panels, the series pulls a STUNNING TWIST, which was just painfully dumb and should not have been part of this.One other thing I want to mention is the artwork. The PI scenes still standard fair for Alias; dark, gritty, and a bunch of reused panels. But the flashback scenes have an art shift to look more like standard superhero comics. It was a very simple idea and it worked wonders.In all, I give Alias four stars.

It was an amazing comic book portraying an amazing story about one of the most relatable and complicated characters I’ve ever witnessed truly beautiful.

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Loved the meta moments in this volume. Bendis is at his very best! Purple man is scary as all heck!

It's a good story, but it comes with all of the ups and downs typical of Bendis's style. Brian Michael Bendis loves the "decompressed" style of writing, where every scene is drawn out like a movie. I bought this expecting a long, tense battle of wits between Jessica and The Purple Man like in the Netflix show. Instead, Killgrave is only in three scenes, and those scenes are mostly dialogue. At the same time, there are plenty of pages that are just alternating frames of the characters looking at each other with no words.It's still a good story, but any other writer would have fit in one issue, and it still would have been good. Bendis draws it out to five - a whole trade. So make of that what you will.

Really good series, even the current one that is about to end is great. What's not great? Kindle app forcing a review, no option to bypass.

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

Amazingly cheap and quick delivery. One of the Three graphic novels had lots of indentations on the cover... But hey, despite being sold as new, they were so cheap it didn't bother me. Buy maybe note in future? Cheers.

É uma revista impressionante. Todo o arco é ótimo, mas gostei bastante desse final. Aliás, ele inspirou diretamente a série da Netflix da personagem - especialmente essa edição.

La miglior saga di AliasAi testi un Bendis ancora ispirato, Gaydos regala emozioni alle matite

Great quality art work and a good story across all the issues