Trouble Finds Jessica Again In ‘Jessica Jones’ #1 [Preview]

Jessica Jones, star of her own Netflix TV series and one of the most groundbreaking female Marvel characters of all time, is back in her own title after more than a decade! Not only that, but Jessica Jones #1 reunites her original Alias creative team of writer Brian Michael Bendis, artist Michael Gaydos, colorist Matt Hollingsworth, and cover artist David Mack.

It obviously would have been cool to see a Jessica Jones creative team that includes some women, given that Jessica's stories are often about women's experiences, but as a fan of Alias it's impossible not to get excited at how much this book resembles that one. After all these years of Jessica being primarily a respectable mom and occasional Avenger, it's refreshing to see her covered in grime and in more trouble than she probably deserves.

Will this book appeal to new fans who first encountered Jessica on Netflix and haven't read Alias? That's hard to say. But the preview finds her being released from a supervillain prison with no good explanation for why they're letting her go, and nobody arriving to pick her up, which does sound like the kind of thing that might happen to that version of the character as well.

Jessica Jones #1 is on sale October 12 and features variant covers by Alex Maleev and David Aja.

Here's the official word from Marvel:

That’s right, she’s back after a decade! This October, she returns to the fold for an all-new ongoing series as the highly anticipated JESSICA JONES #1 explodes onto the scene as part of Marvel NOW! From the original creative team of Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Gaydos and David Mack comes a brand new series that drags Jessica to the center of the Marvel Universe! There are still many secrets hiding in the shadows. Secrets only a special woman with talents like Jessica Jones can uncover. But when secrets from Jessica’s own past resurface, her caseload is about to get a whole lot heavier. Plus – just how did Jessica Jones wind up incarcerated in The Cellar – a prison designed to hold only the deadliest super villains? Find out in this blistering first issue when the eponymous heroine makes her triumphant return to comics in JESSICA JONES #1 – on-sale this October!