Marvel Comics will celebrate the 25th anniversary of Jessica Jones’s debut with Alias: Red Band, a five-issue series starting March 11. Current New Avengers creative team Sam Humphries and Geraldo Borges will reteam on the book, which will see Jessica, now the First Lady of New York City, step back into her old shoes to investigate a series of murders. Along the way, she’ll team up with Typhoid Mary, the wife of former mayor Wilson Fisk himself.
A series of grisly murders in Hell’s Kitchen pulls Jessica Jones into a mystery more sinister than she could’ve ever imagined. As the wife of Mayor Luke Cage, she’ll have to tread carefully as she forms a dangerous alliance with Typhoid Mary to track down the killer. But as she delves deeper into Hell’s Kitchen’s dark underbelly, the evidence she finds presents more questions than answers…
In an exclusive with Polygon, Humphries states, “No one does it like Jessica Jones. She’s sharp, bitterly funny, and tenacious as hell. Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos snapped when they created her, a totally singular character with a unique POV on the superhero game. I’m excited to push the limits of the kind of cases Jessica Jones can investigate, and how far she’ll go to solve them.”
Since her debut in Alias in 2001, Jessica has starred in 2004-06’s The Pulse (also written by Bendis); 2016-18’s eponymous comic (which reunited Bendis and Gaydos); the 2018-19 comiXology Original Jessica Jones run (by Kelly Thompson and Mattia De Iulis); and the 2022 miniseries The Variants (by Gail Simone and Phil Noto.) And of course, she was played by Krysten Ritter on her namesake Netflix series from 2015 to 2019, as well as on The Defenders, and Daredevil: Born Again season two (which’ll premiere around the same time as Alias: Red Band next year.)
While the book is apparently not one of Bendis’s new projects at Marvel, it will see the return of original Alias cover artist David Mack on main sleeve duties. Issue #1 will also be released this March with variant cover art by Elena Casagrande and Jeehyung Lee, which you can check out in the meantime below. For more from Humphries, head to Polygon.
