Alias Vol. 2: Come Home

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In “Come Home”- the story arc in here is sup­pos­edly related to a cou­ple of true stories per the author. Jessica Jones is asked to investigate a missing teen-age girl from a small town in upstate New York. It doesn’t take Jessica long to ascer­tain that she has landed in a bigoted town.

There’s been rumors about Rebecca Cross- the young teen who is miss­ing- being a mutant. Mutant which has the negative connota­tion of being gay- black or Jewish. The town’s preacher espouses on hate regularly every Sunday thereby amplifying the bigoted views of the town. Maybe even prompting some of them put action behind their racial views.

There’s a story going around town about a kid who had fallen out of tree but didn’t break any bones. He was labeled a mutant. The boy’s family was targeted and the parents ended up leaving the boy behind. Did Rebecca suffer the same fate? Did someone harm her? The conclusion to this story arc wasn’t a big surprise but enjoyable all the same.

In “Raining Men-” this arc has Jes­sica going out on a date with another super­hero- Ant-Man. Her friend- Carol Dan­vers aka Mrs Marvel- set this one up for her. It just shows the two of them hav­ing a very enlightening conversation while Spider­man is out­side fight­ing with Doctor Octopus- neither of which are moved to help