Overall this issue was pure fire. It evoked actual emotion and managed to create tension, dread, and mystery. It was a full color, well drawn, well written, film noir mystery in comic book form and I was here for it. As a whole, I was still on edge when I finished reading and it took a moment for me to calm down enough to write my review. The issue felt real and there's something marvelous about picking up an issue of a comic book and having fit take hold of you by pulling you into the story. Read Full Review

Somehow aware of the events of Secret Wars and the fallout of the Avengers choosing to destroy multiple universes and kill billions, Mr. Brownlee explains his rather awful murder of his wife and why none of it matters at all. In his view, the Avengers broke his world, overwrote it with a flimsy copy, and nothing in this reality matters in the least. The trouble for Jessica is, despite he man's particular brand of crazy, the more he speaks the more she realizes that he's probably right, which may be an issue sending her in with that mindset going undercover with a group hellbent on exposing super-heroes and their secrets. Worth a look. Read Full Review

This series continues to be powerful and sharply written and drawn - but it's not for everyone and it's certainly not for young readers. Mature readers who can handle the bleakness, however, will love it. Read Full Review

This issue of Jessica Jones continues to give us incrediblestorytelling and is surprisingly dealing with the aftermath of the universechanging event that was Secret Wars. The dialogue is amazing and the issue isengaging. While I may have one issue with one aspect of this story so far, itdoes not ruin the book at all for me and I can't wait for what happens next. Read Full Review

The series is still progressing too slowly overall, but this issue suggests that it's finding a better balance between gritty detective story and a book that dives into the rich tapestry of the Marvel U. Read Full Review

The pacing on this series, and indeed this series itself, may not be to everyone's tastes. But once again Jessica Jones is proving that this series marches to the beat of its own drummer, and doesn't need to apologise for that. Jessica Jones #5 is dark, intriguing and intense, and well worth picking up. Read Full Review

Points to Bendis for coming up with a really crazy spin-off from Secret Wars. Bendis' character proposes a pretty interesting phenomenon here, and I like what he's getting at. All these big, insane crossover moments and Marvel usually just moves right on. A comic like Jessica Jones is the perfect place to pick up the slack. I like the idea of the scrappy, independent investigator somehow digging into the insanity of Secret Wars (and I always enjoy the Spot cameos). So I like where the story is going, but this is just an issue of the guy laying it all out for Jessica. This has been a very low key, low energy comic. That doesn't make it bad, but it does dull the excitement a little. Read Full Review

I had a problem with the direction and pace of the last two issues, but this surprised me and pulled me back in. I did not expect to see this darkly intense look at the ramifications of Secret Wars, and didn't really consider them in the way this issue forces the reader to, as the nullification of billions of lives, countless universes. It's very smartly done, and has me reinvested in this series.

A yawning void of nihilism reaches for Jessica and she makes some frightening choices. This is about as dark as we can get and still pull up. This issue is robbed of a little impact because there's not really any doubt that the pull-up is coming, but it's damned interesting to bring Jess to the edge of the abyss. There's frightening, fascinating alternate-reality weirdness down there, but the odds of going any further are slim. Just this glance is enough to scare the pants off Jessica Jones, and when you consider what a hardass she is, that's pretty dang scary.