They say at some point you have to face yourself but when it literally happens in your own living room and there’s more than one of yourselves including a version that’s holding a Captain America Shield…it’s understandable that you could react with a little anger and maybe even some violence. Noto’s issue #3 cover is perfection and if you are into variants Betsy Cola’s marvelous art for the recap page is available as a variant cover for this issue.Things are just getting weirder for Jessica. Speaks to a skillset of someone who is a master of their craft. Her and the Jessica who was married to Daredevil has harder expressions than all of them, it His various Jessica’s are marvelously the same yet different, the Jewel Jessica is younger and it’s reflected in the way he draws

He makes you feel the emotion of Simone’s script in wholly believable ways and then pivots to an action scene that plays out in the most marvelously cinematic yet tragic way so that the last page is like the cliffhanger ending of your favorite marvel tv series. On the various Jessica’s faces as they interact with each other is masterful. With a lot of talking and dialogue but again Noto is equal to the task. Phil Noto continues to wow, The opening page is absolutely breathtaking. It’s serious writing, with serious themes but Simone manages to break the seriousness with some great humor as well, the coffee shop scene is a great example of how she does this before plunging back into the mystery of what’s happening to Jessica. Her Luke Cage is excellent and there’s a great fight scene with Simone’s quippy dialogue toward the end of the book that’s tragic yet pitch perfect. We get to see more of She-Hulk (who Simone writes amazingly) as well as Daredevil, Danny Rand, and Luke Cage. Simone beautifullyĭelineates those differences yet doesn’t forget the storyline and central narrative withĪll this character work and smartly balances it with this mysterious threat that comes after They are all defined by loss in their own ways. What this does as is it brings these variants into much sharperįocus and all of a sudden while they may all be Jessica, they become distinct shades of the Jessica PRIME but also crack open and interrogate the psychology of her variants in truly Of her mirror selves in superbly resonant ways that not only dig into the psychology of In an issue that brings Jessica and her variants together. Gail Simone continues to prove that her character writing is some of the best in the business

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