Jessica Jones Writer Thanks Creator for Supporting Hero's New Era
Writer Gail Simone and artist Phil Noto's new Jessica Jones miniseries The Variants debuts this week, and Simone took the opportunity to show gratitude to Jessica's co-creator while promoting the new book on social media. Unlike many of Marvel's other iconic heroes, Jessica Jones is still a relatively recent addition to the Marvel Universe. This means that her introduction is still one of the most definitive takes on the character, and any new story centered on her has great potential to build on or tear apart the reasons readers have fallen for Jessica.
Though Jessica Jones already has a Captain America variant, she's actually a relatively recent addition to Marvel. Jones debuted in the 2001 Marvel MAX miniseries Alias from her co-creators Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos. Although she was introduced to readers over 20 years ago, Jessica is still a fairly recent addition to Marvel Comics 80+ years of publication history. Retroactively established to have been a schoolmate of Peter Parker, Jessica is roughly the same age as Spider-Man but she has only been around as a lead character for a third of the time he has. Further still, of the five miniseries solely led by Jessica Jones before The Variants, Bendis and Gaydos created the first three. Apprehension at diverging from or insulting the vision of Jessica's creators becomes all the more real in light of this. Any rational fears Gail Simone had in writing a new Jessica Jones mystery were quickly dispelled.
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In a thread shared on Twitter this week, Simone noted that throughout the creative process, «Brian [Michael Bendis] was lovely, supportive, and kind.» Simone also shared that Kelly Thompson, the
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