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Marvel’s new Netflix show, Jessica Jones, isn’t your average superhero fare.
The comic book that introduced Jessica Jones launched Marvel’s “R-rated” Max imprint, finally letting fans know that their favorite superheroes did know how to swear, they just felt very uncomfortable doing it.
How to read it: Available digitally and in collected print editions as Jessica Jones: Alias, Volumes 1 through 4.
How to read it: Available digitally and in a collected print edition as Jessica Jones – The Pulse: The Complete Collection.
As if Killgrave isn’t unsettling enough in Netflix’s Jessica Jones, his most recent comic book appearance ups the ante by bringing in his offspring: a number of children who each possess his power of mind control to a certain degree.
A highlight from a run by writer Mark Waid and artist Chris Samnee that’s a must-read as a whole, but certainly worth picking up as Jessica Jones prep.
Now for something completely different; one of Jessica’s best friends in Jessica Jones is Trish Walker, who’s a version of a comic book character called Patsy Walker-originally an Archie-esque teen comedy character from the 1940s who became a superhero in the 1970s.