Gosh, 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 happy 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 os 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.