Alias [Hardcover]

Brian Michael Bendis (Author), Bill Sienkiewicz (Author), Michael Gaydos (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Marvel Entertainment Group (July 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785108726
• ISBN-13: 978-0785108726
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,973,491 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Private Dick Grittiness in a Super-Hero Setting, September 23, 2002

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"g_a_peartree" (Manchester, NH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alias (Hardcover)

If you have ANY kind of knowledge of the Marvel Comics stable, you will enjoy this seedy view of the Marvel Universe as seen through the eyes of Jessica Jones, former super-hero, former member of the world-famous AVENGERS, now turned private investigator. She's a functioning alcoholic trying to eke out a living by performing skip-traces, spouse-spying, and missing person investigations. As she exists in the world of Spider-Man, The Hulk, and company, her investigations and associations lead her to cross paths with the occasional hero or villian when they're not tending to the usual spate of bank-robbing, world-conquering, or world-saving. She has a one-night-stand with Luke Cage, Power-Man, Hero-For-Hire and she becomes a dupe in an espionage-sting involving Captain America's secret identity. She's a new character but she's been retroactively inserted into Marvel history so most of the super-hero community is aware of her existence. I thought that she was actually a thinly-disguised version of Jessica Drew who has also become a private investigator since she lost her powers as the original SPIDER-W0MAN. But THIS Jessica seems to have retained a semblance of her powers which she occasionally uses in the course of her work.

Even if you're not into comics and super-heroes, this work stands up on its own with realistic street dialogue that rings true to the ear, thanks to the very-talented Brian Michael Bendis. It definitely raises the bar for the entire spandex-genre, proving that there can be more to a super-hero tale than the monthly slugfest...