The series stars the titular Jessica Jones and is set in the shared Marvel Universe.
When a woman's body is discovered in Jessica's office, she's promptly arrested on suspicion of murder. There's not enough evidence to charge her, but Jessica's search for the real killer leads to some dark places - and draws in some well-known Marvel characters.
The first issue was released July 18, 2018.
Jessica Jones: Blind Spot contains examples of the following tropes:
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Inverted when Jennifer gives Danielle a birthday present and informs the two-year-old that it's a magic object that will make her strong. Jessica has to confirm that it's just the kind of thing you tell small children. Then subverted when Thor sees it and identifies it as an object that summons "trickster gods". At least it doesn't make you strong.
- Atrocious Alias: Lone Shark. He meant it to be similar to 'lone wolf', but people who don't see it in writing assume it's "loan shark" and tend to mistake him for a financial villain instead of a shark-themed one.
- Be Careful What You Wish For:
- Dia Sloane’s relationship became rocky because her boyfriend resented her having powers, so she wished he could have powers too. He ended up becoming more cruel with them, not less.
- Jared was abusive, but regretted his bullying, and wished he could rid himself of his evil. His new powers split him into good and evil halves, with the Evil Jared going on a misogynistic killing spree and the Good Jared following to undo his murders.
- Boom, Headshot!: Jessica's shot through the head, at close range, by an unseen assailant at the end of the first issue. The last panel shows her lying in a pool of blood with an exit wound in her forehead. It certainly looks fatal.
- Breaking the Bonds: When Jessica's questioned as a suspect in Dia's death, the police handcuff her. As soon as Matt Murdock gets her released, she can't resist snapping the handcuffs.
- Breather Episode: Issue #6 is mostly a cozy domestic epilogue after Jessica solves the case, focusing on her and Luke setting up their daughter’s birthday party. However, it still includes an attack by Loan Shark and concerns the heavy matter of Jessica’s PTSD.
- Continuity Nod:
- Jessica's heard that, as a child, Elsa Bloodstone killed a monster with a spoon before she could even walk. This refers to a training scene shown in Nextwave.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Lone Shark is an enormous vicious villain with no reservations about killing Jones and Cage in their own home... until he sees they were setting up their daughter's birthday party and so retreats ashamedly.
- Everybody Lives: Jared eventually resurrects everyone that Evil Jared has killed, including Skein and White Rabbit. By the end of the series, the only deaths that endure are the mindless fish-monsters Elsa and Jessica fight while discussing the case.
- Faking the Dead: Dia uses her powers to fake her own death in the hope that Jared will stop pursuing her.
- The Ghost: Skein and White Rabbit are Killed Offscreen (and resurrected offscreen) and never actually appear in the story.
- Improbable Weapon User: Elsa Bloodstone uses an electric guitar as a weapon. Rock.
- Jekyll & Hyde: Dia’s boyfriend Jared split himself into good and evil halves with superpowers. When Evil Jared is apprehended, Good Jared is told they have to merge back together. He begs not to, wanting to live without his evil side, but Jessica explains that Good Jared could just grow into another abusive dick if he doesn’t have the memories and experience in him leading him to regret seeking evil. As such, the two fuse back together once again into a single Jared.
- Leotard of Power: As the story opens, Jessica has been chained to a chair and forced to wear a knockoff Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) leotard. After she escapes from Evil!Jared, she actually keeps the leotard on just so he can be seen being beaten down by her in it.
- Lighter and Softer: While the tone is still somber, it's noticeably less graphic than Bendis’s Alias, with no sexual depictions, drug use, and with the swearing censored. However, there is still alcohol use and blood.
- Notice This: Details about people and places are highlighted in the form of black and white polaroids with descriptive text. Being an investigator made her see things that way and she says she can't turn it off. This is a carryover of the Sherlock Scan used in Hawkeye (2016), a series Brian Michael Bendis liked so much that when he left Marvel, he personally asked Kelly Thompson to take over Jessica.
- Only Mostly Dead: Jessica, Elsa Bloodstone, Mary Jane Watson, Skein and White Rabbit are all killed by Evil Jared. All are resurrected by the end of the series.
- Plot-Triggering Death: The discovery of Dia's body leads to Jessica's arrest and the wider plot.
