What If…? Jessica Jones (2026) #1 (What If…?

by Justina Ireland, David Messina (Artist), Lucas Werneck (Cover Art)

Genres: Comics

Kindle Edition

Published July 15, 2026

About the author

Justina Ireland is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books including Dread Nation and its sequel Deathless Divide, the middle-grade novel Ophie's Ghosts, which won the Scott O'Dell award for historical fiction, and a number of Star Wars books including Flight of the Falcon: Lando’s Luck, Spark of the Resistance, A Test of Courage, Out of the Shadows, and Mission to Disaster. She is a former editor in chief of FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, for which she won a World Fantasy Award. She holds a BA in History from Georgia Southern and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University.

Reviews

[Larakaa · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Ushnav Shroff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rad stuff!

[Raymond Paquette · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed the idea. Jessica Jones was certainly in the position to get bitten. Peter’s motivation for getting her to rejoin the super hero game was rather refreshing, but understated.

[Dean · Rating 3 out of 5]

I quite liked this besides the obvious and dull ending. Ireland class this out in the narration but that still doesn't forgive it.

[Lizzy DeMarco · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really great what if... I would read more of Jessica Jones Spider Girl!

[Franck Martini · Rating 4 out of 5]

More like 3,5 for the excellent story with a terrible ending.

[Jesse · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad. Jessica looked and sounded perfect. The Spider-Man stuff was all pretty random, but worked well enough as a mashup of Spider-Man's and Jessica's respective origins.