This doesn’t look happy. We will recall that Jessica turned herself in and registered in a panic last time we saw her. This issue of New Avengers is brought to us by Bendis, Michael Gaydos and Jose Villarubia. Almost the Alias gang! It begins with Luke breaking into Jessica’s office, looking for her, thinking about the good times, wondering where she is. Then he sees Avengers Tower out the window and thinks the worst.
Oof. Can’t say she’s wrong, tho. Jess reiterates that their child was in a room full of crazy supervillains and tells Luke to lose like a man and put his child first, to which he smashes the receiver of the phone. Jarvis happens to be walking by, and, told what happened, asks what Jessica thinks Luke will do next. She says, “Probably trash our lobby.” Soon, he’s outside, as she predicted. They go a couple more rounds, with the conversation shifting to the Skrull business, and Luke’s certainty that Tony is one. Jess wisely counters that he doesn’t know. That no one knows, and that Avengers Tower is the safest place for their child. Luke says this will destroy their marriage.
I so miss Jessica Jones looking like Jessica Jones instead of Kristen Ritter. No offense to her, but as I’ve mentioned before, being based on a real person, Jessica, out of all the superheroes in the world, is the one who can be most “on model.” Or the least. And since that Netflix show, she has black hair and wears a black jacket and looks like Kristen Ritter, and that is not the real Jessica Jones. Well, anyway, while they argue outside, the Mighty Avengers arrive upstairs, and none of them know she came in. Jarvis tells them she showed up while they were gone, and he made the call to grant her asylum. Danielle is in a basket in the kitchen (Bendis & Gaydos have Ares immediately go start making faces and being playful with her, which is very fun for that character). Ms. Marvel says she’ll handle this.
So, the gang doesn’t know yet. And Tony ran off to tell the Illuminati instead of his team, which seems bad for the team dynamic. Luke leaves over Black Widow’s loud protests, and Spider-Woman refuses to tell them what’s going on, says to talk to Tony. Meanwhile, near the end of this comic called New Avengers, Danny Rand is showing the New Avengers to their new home. A whole floor of an apartment building he says his corporation rented out to Samuel Sterns, aka the Leader.
Ouch, indeed. Say, did Echo just talk to someone whose lips she couldn’t see? Art mistake or Skrull reveal? You decide!