![]() ![]() And will inform the relationship between the two characters throughout the issue. ![]() This conflict is spelled out in Jess’s dialogue here. She avoids her touch and, eventually, will not explain the truth of her experiences to her. ![]() But she also fears that her own experiences with Kilgrave will somehow taint Jewel. She wants Jewel’s comfort because Jewel exists prior to the trauma of Kilgrave she is the version of herself that Jess has desperately wished she could get back for years. Seeing Jewel as an untainted version of herself, Jess is both desperate to protect her and to foster intimacy between them. The relationship dynamic in this panel will become more explicit later in the issue, but I like how the comic establishes it here before it is spelled out. Noto’s artwork is crisp and clear, a more realistic style that is a pleasure to the eyes, and it is simply fantastic. Variants 3: Backed into an impossible corner, Jessica is forced to make a sacrifice play that could cost her a member of her own. In this panel, a version of Jess from another universe, one that appears to harken back to when she first became the superhero Jewel, attempts to soothe Jess’s pounding head. Gail Simone’s depiction of a sharp and cranky but good-hearted Jessica makes the character powerful and appealing. She’s made peace with the variants, but the possible trigger is giving her bad headaches. And second, she may have had a trigger implanted in her brain by Kilgrave to get her to kill her family. ![]() First, alternate-universe versions of her have invaded Earth-616. Jess had two different problems facing her. The Variants #3 written by Gail Simone drawn by Phil Noto ![]()
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