Also among this week's comics...

ALIAS #25 - As we draw to an unexpectedly early close, Jessica Jones finally reveals what happened to her and why she abandoned her career as Jewel.  As usual, Mark Bagley is brought in to draw the flashbacks to her superhero career, and looks suitably out of place considering what he's called upon to draw.  Which, of course, is part of the point.  Nice little story - the general thrust of Jessica's story won't come as a tremendous surprise to anyone, but the details are well handled.  A

FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE JUSTICE LEAGUE #2 - It's good to see that this book isn't simply playing the nostalgia card.  It really does work on the same level it did the first time round, rather than calling for any particular recollection of running jokes.  The basic gag - superheroes hang around and behave as though they're sitcom characters - is just a really great idea for a series, and if the idea of Harvard educated street thugs is a bit obvious, the series entertains by the quality of the jokes.  A-

VERTIGO POP: BANGKOK #4 - The end of the third and final Vertigo Pop miniseries, and perhaps the least memorable - although Bangkok was always going to be an uphill struggle.  This wasn't a bad series by any stretch of the imagination, though.  The discrepancy between the values Tuze understandably wants to bring to Bangkok and the general lack of concern from the inhabitants is a nice theme, and there's plenty in this miniseries to make it worth a look.  But, at the end of the day, only after you've read the London and Tokyo ones first.  B

Last week's Article 10 is stilll up at Ninth Art.

Next week, the second issue of Emma Frost; Chuck Austen's final issue of Exiles; and "Blockbuster" continues in Ultimate X-Men.

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