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! Collecting THE VARIANTS (2022) #1-5.
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0Gosh, this was good. Goddamit, Gail Simone is good. Phil Noto’s art keeps getting better and better with every passing year.
In The Variants, Jessica Jones struggles with her ever present PTSD and looming specter of the memories of Killgrave. Even though she should be content with the life she's built with her husband Luke Cage and their daughter Dani, she still struggles with self-acceptance and self-forgiveness. Thankfully Killgrave is NOT the focus of this story, as different variants of Jessica start popping up all over Hell’s Kitchen and she has to figure out what the hell is going on.
Simone balances Jessica’s inner turmoil with some great plot and a fun story. This is kind of a perfect book to get a good idea of what Jessica is like and see her go through a very satisfying emotional character arc.
There are enough greater Marvel call outs to make this fun, but it’s still self contained enough to understand and read as it’s own little story. Just fantastic all around.
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