The Pulse?

[ffutures]

On rozk's rec I've been reading the Alias comics (The fairly explicit Marvel one by Bendis etc. about a super turned private eye called Jessica Jones, nothing to do with the TV show of that name), and enjoyed them a lot. According to Wikipedia there's more about Jones in a subsequent series, The Pulse, so I'm wondering if they're worth reading - I get the impression that they're rather more mainstream to the Marvel universe, which may mean they're less to my taste.

Any thoughts?

Later Turns out I can get all three of the Pulse collected volumes for about £18 total so I've ordered them.

Comments

[vitruvian23.livejournal.com]

They were still pretty good. Beware, though, if you go from reading the last issues of the Pulse to reading anything put out in the mainstream MU over the last year or so; the cognitive dissonance, especially given that Bendis wrote the Pulse and also much of what's out there now with Norman Osborn, could be extreme.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[rozk.livejournal.com]

They are by the same writer - Brian Michael Bendis - and involve Jessica and her sweetie Luke Cage in events tangential to what was going on in the Secret War miniseries -not to be confused with Secret Wars which was much earlier and crappier, and include a chunk of back story about Jessica's post-Killgrave attempt to be a superhero again, before she settled for being a PI as well as the birth of her child. If you like the byplay between her and Luke in Alias, and her friendship with Carol Danvers, you'll really need to read these for the dialogue. The same tends to be true of the scenes in which she appears in Bendis' run of New Avengers, mainstream and in all sorts of ways problematic as those are. One of the nicer aspects of recent months has been her and Peter Parker rebuilding the friendship they never quite got to have as teenagers - that has consequences in this week's Amazing Spider-Man.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks - and thanks again for reccing Alias, it's been a very interesting read.

[paratti.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed them and it does continue the story arc of Jessica Jones.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks!