Mockingbird #8

Mockingbird (Single Issues) #8

by Chelsea Cain, Joëlle Jones (Cover Art), Kasia Nie (Artist)

CIVIL WAR II TIE-IN! Stranded on a sinking ship adrift in the Bermuda Triangle, MOCKINGBIRD must catch a killer intent on using her past to drive her mad…if the sea monsters, pirate zombies and Nazi sailor ghosts don't get her first. Giant whirlpools! Time vortexes! Ex-boyfriends! Worst. Cruise. Ever.

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Superheroes, Graphic Novels

24 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 19, 2016

About the author

Chelsea Cain is the New York Times bestselling author of the Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thrillers Heartsick, Sweetheart, Evil at Heart, The Night Season, Kill You Twice, and Let Me Go. Her next book One Kick (August, 2014) will be the first in her Kick Lannigan thriller series. Her book Heartsick was named one of the best 100 thrillers ever written by NPR, and Heartsick and Sweetheart were named among Stephen King's Top Ten Books of the Year. Her books have been featured on HBO's True Blood and on ABC's Castle. Cain lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and daughter.

Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm sad to see this series end. Every issue was amazing, and Chelsea Cain is an exceptional writer. LOVE the cover of this issue, and I need to find out where I can buy this shirt! There needs to be more feminist superheroes!

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sad that this series has come to an end. Bobbi is awesome, she deserves more book!

Her feminist agenda, by the way? Also awesome.

[Ria · Rating 5 out of 5]

WHY IS THIS THE END??!!! I knew it was coming, but it still hurts...

I laughed repeatedly through this issue, it was the most gloriously oddball conclusion to one of my favourite comic runs in recent years. Bobbi is drawn beautifully, powerful and confident and an all too rare portrayal of the female form in comics - sexy but not sexualised.

I can't decide if my favourite part was the map, the flowchart, the scene with the ghost horse or the mercorgis. All delightful. I want this creative team to get an awesome series at Image (oh hai Batgirl team) and to be free to pursue feminist agendas without enraging the mainstream fanboys who use the anonymity of the internet to unleash their worst selves.

Exceedingly awesome, I will spread the Bobbi gospel for these 8 precious issues.

[Vinton Bayne · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great way to cap it all off. Very well wrapped up and a very endearing letter from the author in the back.

[Solace Winter · Rating 5 out of 5]

THIS IS THE LAST ONE?????????????!!?!?!?!!?

[Kirsten · Rating 3 out of 5]

Far too many elements/new characters for my liking just for them all to say nothing or a one liner then disappear/leave/etc.

[Eric · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish there were more.

[Taryn · Rating 5 out of 5]

i'm really sad it's over. i enjoy chain's sense of humour and the artistic design and colour.

i also ended this series being super into clint/bobbi/hunter lol.

[Scott Mills · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the flow chart and the pirates. This book was super funny, I'm sad to see it end.

[Chris Conley · Rating 5 out of 5]

It took me an oddly long time to get to this one. It's because I didn't want the series to end.

[Jillian · Rating 5 out of 5]

10 Things I Love in Mockingbird #8

1. Let me just sing the praises of the cover here. Bobbi's t-shirt? Perfect. The coloring? Perfect. Cover by Joelle Jones? PERFECT!

2. I love the little inside jokes on the credit pages. "Ahoy, to the Phantom Rider, Lincoln Slade! He will not be speaking at the Nerd Cruise banquet. Mr. Slade is here for personal reasons (murder, stalking)."

3. Why do we have to start this comic with Clint/Bobbi feels? This first page has heavy feels. I've loved the scenes of Clint and Bobbi in couple's counseling, but this one hit me in the heart.

4. Bobbi's thoughts on the Bermuda Triangle. "The Bermuda Triangle coughs up myths like a consumptive asthmatic. Missing vessels are blamed on aliens. Atlantis. Time rifts. Ghost ships. Magnetic anomalies. Methane eruptions. People go mad. People lose their minds. Sometimes I think I've been in the Bermuda Triangle my whole life."

5. The creepiness of the Phantom Rider and how Bobbi immediately shuts him down. "You know what hurts...? ...That you think you can actually win me back with this @#$$$**, you anachronistic piece of #$$*. Now take your hand off my ass."

6. Bobbi assembles the nerd on the Nerd Boat cruise to help catch Lincoln Slade! YESSS! This comic is ridiculous in the best way, and I love it.

7. Paul Sabourin, one of the nerd boat passengers, apparently is a ghost horse whisperer? And corgis attack him? It's so great!

8. The ghost cowboy stalker ex plan flowchart! This is a work of art! I had to follow every option.

9. The women of the Nerd Boat cruise not going along with Slader's plans of vengeance because they don't agree with preemptive justice or abetting kidnapping. The pro-feminist pirates. Lincoln Slade accepting he and Bobbi are done.

10. BOBBI'S VACATION WITH HER TWO LOVE INTERESTS THAT DEFINITELY IMPLIES A THREESOME IF CHELSEA'S AUTHOR'S NOTE IS TO BE TRUSTED.

[April Pelt · Rating 5 out of 5]

While I'm heartbroken that the series is over, I couldn't have hoped for a better final issue. Mercorgis, feminist ghost pirates, and MMF threesomes in a Swiss chalet. Mockingbird #8 has it all!

[Sarah Violet · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was SO disappointing.

[Milena · Rating 4 out of 5]

This has been a real fun series. I'm sad to see it go.
Would love to read more of this RIDICULOUSLY GOOD writing.

[Molly]

Picked this up for the cover and read the end of the run first... Would now like to go back and put the prices together!

[MJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nerdy sisters,alpine threesomes,feminist agendas,mercorgis¡!

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