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- Jessica Jones: Alias is coming back with the team that created her.
- Jessica Jones: Alias is a five-issue limited series written by Bendis with art by Gaydos, launching with issue #1 on December 23, 2026.
- David Mack, who painted every cover on the original run, returns to do the same for the new series.
Jessica Jones: Alias is coming back with the team that created her. Marvel confirmed in Marvel’s official announcement Thursday, September 24, 2026, in an exclusive interview with Entertainment Weekly, confirming that Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos are reuniting for a new five-issue miniseries launching this December, 25 years after their original Alias run introduced Jessica Jones to comics.
What Jessica Jones: Alias is about
Jessica Jones: Alias is a five-issue limited series written by Bendis with art by Gaydos, launching with issue #1 on December 23, 2026. The story follows Jessica taking on the strangest case of her career: the disappearance of a missing child she suspects is a mutant, a case that pulls her far outside her usual Hell’s Kitchen territory into locations including Latveria, Doctor Doom’s home country, and the Savage Land.
David Mack, who painted every cover on the original run, returns to do the same for the new series. The original Alias ran 28 issues from September 2001 to 2004, publishing under Marvel’s mature-readers MAX imprint — a detail The Beat’s rundown of the December solicitations flagged as part of a broader wave of legacy-creator reunions in Marvel’s December slate. Issue #1 of the new series ships with a main cover by Mack, variant covers by Corin Howell, Ito and Miguel Mercado, and a textless version of Mack’s art.
How the new series compares to the original
| Detail | Alias (2001-2004) | Jessica Jones: Alias (2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Writer | Brian Michael Bendis | Brian Michael Bendis |
| Artist | Michael Gaydos | Michael Gaydos |
| Cover artist | David Mack | David Mack |
| Length | 28 issues | 5 issues |
| Imprint | Marvel MAX | Marvel (standard) |
| First issue | September 2001 | December 23, 2026 |
Why bringing back the original team is a bigger deal than a typical anniversary book
The original Alias wasn’t a spinoff of an existing hero; it launched Marvel’s MAX imprint in 2001 specifically because its subject matter didn’t fit the standard superhero line. Bendis and Gaydos built the entire arc around Zebediah Killgrave, the Purple Man, using his mind-control power as a direct metaphor for coercive control, a topic mainstream superhero comics were not writing about at the time.
That run is also the direct source material for Marvel and Netflix’s Jessica Jones series (2015-2019), which adapted the Killgrave arc for its first season. Reuniting the exact same writer, artist and cover artist, rather than handing the anniversary to a new creative team, fits a pattern for Bendis lately: much of Bendis’s return to Marvel has involved reuniting with a former collaborator instead of starting fresh. Here, that means treating Alias less like a brand to relaunch and more like a novel its original authors weren’t finished writing.
Jessica has, since her debut, been something very different in my life… People see themselves in her and love her and root for her. All of that is in this series.
Brian Michael Bendis, writer, to Entertainment Weekly
Bendis also addressed why he chose Jessica for his return to the character over a bigger cosmic event book: “Jessica is the character I feel most connected to. Her voice is so distinct, and her flaws make her endlessly compelling to write. Coming back to Alias Investigations feels like putting on a favorite worn-in leather jacket.”
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Jessica Jones: Alias?
Jessica Jones: Alias is a five-issue Marvel Comics limited series reuniting original Alias (2001) creators Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos, launching December 23, 2026 for Jessica Jones’s 25th anniversary.
When does Jessica Jones: Alias come out?
Issue #1 releases December 23, 2026, as part of Marvel’s December 2026 solicitations.
Who is working on Jessica Jones: Alias?
Brian Michael Bendis writes, Michael Gaydos draws, and David Mack returns for cover art, the same core team behind the original 2001-2004 Alias series.
What is the story about?
Jessica Jones investigates the abduction of a missing child she suspects is a mutant, a case that spirals into a global search taking her to Latveria and the Savage Land.
Is this connected to the Marvel/Netflix Jessica Jones show?
Not directly, but the original Alias comic that this series revives is the source material Marvel and Netflix adapted for the 2015-2019 Jessica Jones television series.
