I liked the subtle hints we got on the covers – the redacted words, the ever-present purple, both cleverly hinting at her repressed memories – and Bendis absolutely delivered on her horrible encounter with Killgrave. He weaves in a lot of Silver Age Marvel stuff into the background (a little redundantly I thought – Jessica went to school with Peter Parker and was there when he got bit by the spider really?) while slowly building up to the mystery of why she’s a mess today. I knew it – I knew there was a great Jessica Jones book to be had somewhere! The first one was ok, the second and third were entirely superfluous (Jessica looks for a runaway teen girl in Vol 2 Jessica looks for a drugged-out runaway teen girl in Vol 3), but this fourth one is where it’s at.īrian Bendis artfully constructs Jessica’s dark origin, from how she got her powers to the fate of her biological family. Behold: the depressing origin of Jessica Jones! Plus: her traumatic past with Killgrave the Purple Man revealed! Yes, it’s a Marvel comic!
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