Picked up the first volume of Marvel’s
Alias trade paperbacks at Midgard
Comics, pleased to see it begins exactly like the superb Netflix TV series it
inspired, with an homage to the first scene in Chinatown (the PI showing a distraught man photos of his wife off
the reservation).
As on TV, she throws him through
her door when he gets tough, adding, “And then there’s the matter of your bill…”
The art by Michael Gaydos is
unromantic, deliberately muddy, noir-ish, suggesting a world apart from the
bright moral clarity of the traditional superheroes. And the writing by Brian
Michael Bendis undermines and winks at superhero fantasy in subtle ways, as
when a cop asks Jessica if she can fly and she replies, “Not really... I can
take off, all right? But I can't -- I can't really land that well. So I just
don’t do it all that much. Like most things in this world, it’s not all that
it's cracked up to be -- flying. Trust me.”
“You ever meet the Fantastic Four?
Love the FF,” her interrogator asks.
“I met the big orange guy once.”
“The Thing.”
“Sure."
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