Jessica Jones and Supergirl: 2015 and the Year of the Super Heroine

Go shorty, it’s ya birthday! Could it be true? Do my eyes and ears deceive me? From the depths of some unbelievably lucky producers 36-hour bender comes a bevy of barrier-breaking super heroines making their way into the homes of millions of Americans who have had nothing but testosterone-filled, male-centric stories of justice and revenge dominating the hero game for the past 30 years. Inevitably, it was a matter of time before we began to see their female comic book counterparts take their talents to the big leagues, and 2015 blessed up and hit us with fine-tuned and well-crafted iterations of two iconic characters in Supergirl and Jessica Jones. Now, let me just stop myself right here and clear a few things up. First, this a fully grown Black man dropping these fem bars about to tear up your cranium. This is written from the perspectives of several men. Last, I’ll be the first to admit that my familiarity with these characters was suspect, at best. I mean, of course I was up on Supergirl from her multitude of appearances in cartoons growing up. But Jessica Jones was a whole ‘nother animal. Hell, I had literally 0 idea that Jessica Garner’s show Alias that ran from 2001-2006 was the first attempt at bringing Ms. Jones to life. With that being said, I found out that Marvel was following up that badass Daredevil show with this beaut and I did some good ol’ 2015 research (Wikipedia and IMDB) and was blown away with the story they managed to put together surrounding this woman’…