Description
What would it really be like to meet an alternate version of yourself - another you who had made different choices and lived a completely different life as a result? That's the question facing Jessica Jones, as what seemed like a routine investigation instead has her encountering other incarnations of herself from across the Multiverse! Can Jessica get along with herself? Will she want to kill her other selves? And will seeing the roads she could have traveled drive her into a self-destructive spiral? This is what happens when you meet...the Variants! Jessica might just be losing her mind...and, worse still, as she is backed into an impossible corner, she is forced to make a sacrifice play that could cost her a member of her own family!.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
112 p.; 10.2 inches
Publication
Marvel Universe (2023), 112 pages
Pages
112
ISBN
1302947060 / 9781302947064
Local notes
The third Jessica Jones collection post-Bendis. Jessica's daughter Dani is said to be three years old here, and the story takes place on the tenth anniversary of Jessica's liberation from the Purple Man.
Library's review
The ten year anniversary of Killgrave's control of Jessica is coming up, coinciding with a batch of horrible migraines, the trial of Killgrave's practice victim, Jessica's trying to give up coffee ... and a bunch of Jessica variants from other dimensions suddenly appearing at her home.
Noto's
Even so, this is a good read, and recommended to most Jones fans. The only thing I'm missing is the noir, private eye angle that has served the character so well previously, but for a short collection with a huge sci-fi premise, that would have felt shoe-horned in any case.
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artwork is good, particularly selling the facial expressions and emotions of the characters at all times. Simone (unsurprisingly) writes an excellent Jessica Jones, her voice and personality consistently on point, funny and hitting all the right emotional beats. The A-plot of her lingering issues wit the Purple Man is also terrific. The B-plot ... well, for a multiversal hijinks storyline, it is fine -- considerably better than I would expect, honestly, but nothing special. I can't help but feel this would have been a much stronger book if doing entirely without this gimmick, and simply fleshing out Jessica, the character of Maria Snyder, and the dread of Killgrave's spectre in their minds.Even so, this is a good read, and recommended to most Jones fans. The only thing I'm missing is the noir, private eye angle that has served the character so well previously, but for a short collection with a huge sci-fi premise, that would have felt shoe-horned in any case.
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LibraryThing member villemezbrown
I had to grit my teeth when yet another Jessica Jones book began with the return of the Purple Man. (Can we put him in a box and set him aside for a good long while, please?) But the story slowly moves Zebadiah KIllgrave to the side as Jessica gets increasingly involved with her alternate reality
The required slugfests upon first meeting lead to a Jessica Jones support group with some humorous one-upmanship for who has it the worst and who can be trusted the least.
What really lifts the story though are its Luke Cage moments. He steals the scene every time he shows up, from introducing someone to the most dangerous real estate in the world, to being kinder to a woman on an elevator than she is to him, to being "damn bulletproof."
Jessica is at her best when she is with Luke, and all those sad variants are just gonna have to be jealous of that.
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doppelgängers -- the multiversal "variants" of the title -- who suddenly start popping up.The required slugfests upon first meeting lead to a Jessica Jones support group with some humorous one-upmanship for who has it the worst and who can be trusted the least.
What really lifts the story though are its Luke Cage moments. He steals the scene every time he shows up, from introducing someone to the most dangerous real estate in the world, to being kinder to a woman on an elevator than she is to him, to being "damn bulletproof."
Jessica is at her best when she is with Luke, and all those sad variants are just gonna have to be jealous of that.
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