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It became AKA Jessica Jones before stalling, and that was the title of this Netflix series until very recently when it was shortened to the current title.
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When plans were first being put in place to bring this to TV about ten years ago, the plan was for an ABC series, but because of another female-fronted TV show known as Alias, the comic book name wasn’t available. But it was also the name of the comic that this series is based on.
Nobody smokes anymore anyway, and Jessica has enough other endearing vices.Īlias Investigations is (of course) a play on the traditional superhero secret identity trope. Most importantly, the Jessica Jones of this Netflix series is exactly the character we got in the comics, minus a nasty smoking habit. Jessica Jones isn’t a straight adaptation of any particular story from the comics, though, but it’s still faithful in spirit and tone to the source material. That’s where we learned about her traumatic past with Kilgrave (more on him in a minute), although it’s explored in much more detail here on the show. This series is primarily concerned with the events that were collected in Alias Volume 4: The Secret Origins of Jessica Jones. Bendis’ tenure as writer on New Avengers, and has generally settled into the Marvel Universe, although never in the most traditional of ways, of course. She started making regular appearances with the Avengers during Mr. We’ll get into more details on that when we hit the episodes they appear in, though.Īliasran for 28 issues, afterwards she starred in the less foul-mouthed and sexy The Pulse, as a member of the Daily Bugle staff. So, instead of a past as Spider-Woman, Jessica has a superheroic past of her own, and that’s alluded to in amusing fashion several times in the course of this series. The idea of a former superhero turning to the world of private investigations was then adapted for an entirely new character, and that’s our Ms. That was originally supposed to be a comic starring Jessica Drew, better known as Spider-Woman.
– Before we go any further, know this: Jessica Jones was created by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos, and first appeared in Alias#1 in 2001. Jessica Jones is hired to find a pretty NYU student who’s vanished, but it turns out to be more than a simple missing persons case. Beware, the spoilers are everywhere… Jessica Jones Episode 1: AKA Ladies Night This should be fun, because the comics this show are based on are some of my favorites.