A review by daredeviling
Jessica Jones: Alias, Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis

3.0

Like many others, I saw the Netflix show before I watched this comic, so I went in having a certain expectation in mind. Overall though, I found the show much more compelling than this comic. I feel like we never learn very much of who Jessica is in the comics or her motivation to leave the superhero life behind. The two cases that we follow are alright. The first one was more interesting than the second, though the ending was fairly anticlimactic for the first. The second case started out interesting, but then I became more meh about it, though it gave us a look at Jessica's inner motives a bit more. I also wasn't a huge fan of the artwork, though I might have been spoiled after having just come off of the Fraction Hawkeye series.

I did enjoy that this comic expanded the Marvel universe in that it mentioned multiple other characters (including Matt Murdock!) that are in the world. But it really focuses on how a civilian might live in a superpowered world (even if Jessica isn't exactly a civilian), and I enjoyed that different point of view from other superhero comics.