Raell wrote:
I have been out of the loop for a long time, is Jessica Jones Spider Woman?
You may not be as out of the loop as you think, she's a recently created (early 2000's) character who is mostly known as a character that got worked into the ensemble cast of more popular ones. (And, no, Spider-Woman is Jessica
Drew)
Jessica Jones was created by, I think it was Bendis, for a Marvel MAX series,
Alias. In Alias, Jessica Jones is introduced as an ex-superhero, who quit the hero life after suffering some horrible incident that is still the source of lingering mental trauma. She decides to become a private investigator, instead, and
Alias follows her in that pursuit, working towards some revelations about her life as a hero later in the series. It ran for, I think, around 30 issues before being cancelled, with most of the cast being rolled into Bendis' new, non-MAX series,
The Pulse, which ended up getting more reader exposure by being a second-tier player in several of Marvel's crossovers.
In
The Pulse, Jessica gets a job at the Daily Bugle, writing for a weekly column (called The Pulse) that mostly covers superheroic activities within New York.
Bendis, in the process of writing both these series, rolls Jessica Jones retroactively into the Spider-Man, Daredevil, Avengers, and Heroes for Hire casts, establishing that she went to Midtown High with Peter Parker (and had a crush on him before his spider-bite), works with (and often offers insider perspectives on the hero community to Ben Urich), had run-ins with a few Daredevil rogues in her superheroine career, befriended Carol Danvers (again, as a superheroine), and dated Scott Lang and Luke Cage. Around the time the New Avengers started, she was dating Luke Cage, and they got pregnant, and later married. She's been a background character in New Avengers ever since.