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Mockingbird (Single Issues) #8
Mockingbird #8
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.
24 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 19, 2016
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About the author
Chelsea Cain
89 books3,800 followersChelsea 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.
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November 26, 2016
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!
November 5, 2016
Sad that this series has come to an end. Bobbi is awesome, she deserves more book!
Her feminist agenda, by the way? Also awesome.
Her feminist agenda, by the way? Also awesome.
April 26, 2017
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.
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.
April 27, 2017
What a great way to cap it all off. Very well wrapped up and a very endearing letter from the author in the back.
December 8, 2016
THIS IS THE LAST ONE?????????????!!?!?!?!!?
July 16, 2017
Far too many elements/new characters for my liking just for them all to say nothing or a one liner then disappear/leave/etc.
July 29, 2019
I wish there were more.
September 13, 2022
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.
i also ended this series being super into clint/bobbi/hunter lol.
November 24, 2016
I loved the flow chart and the pirates. This book was super funny, I'm sad to see it end.
January 21, 2017
It took me an oddly long time to get to this one. It's because I didn't want the series to end.
November 13, 2016
**Some light Civil War II spoilers**
This is one of the best - BEST - short run books I've ever read. It is wholly different from any other book, let alone a female heroine book. Bobbi Morse is smart, beautiful, sarcastic as hell and in command of her own story. She is not a prop for any male hero, yet she is not above enjoying their admiration. She kicks ass and loves her femininity without hating masculinity. This run of Mockingbird is entirely about the development and exploration of her character. There are almost no super-powers to speak of, and no alien invasions or the interpersonal posturing and bickering of The Avengers. The book does not suffer at all from a lack of the usual comic book stuff, as it fills the void expertly with Bobbi's recounting of a fun, intrigue-filled spy story about her and her ex-husband Hawkeye who, elsewhere in the Marvel universe, is in big trouble for having murdered a very important Avenger. It's a welcome, back-to-earth shift from the typical high-stakes cosmic battle fare of most current books.
One of the best parts of this book is the artwork. There are so many hilarious details to find in the backgrounds and the sidebars, and they become more interesting as you read through each issue and the non-linear timeline of the story becomes clearer. Writer Chelsea Cain magnificently flips the script on the tired trope of the female characters and heroines always showing up in the panels half-dressed and impossibly proportioned by deftly, but not cruelly, placing the male characters - Clint Barton(Hawkeye) and Lance Hunter - in similarly emasculating situations. They both appear shirtless throughout the run and a little helpless without Bobbi's intervention, although we know they are not helpless at all. Bobbi's re-telling of events may not always be accurate, but it is her truth. Cain's writing and characterizations are a perfectly clear but not offensively heavy-handed feminist right hook that will spin your head 180º with an idiot-grin on your face from the realization that you are in totally in love with Bobbi Morse. Not because she is a damsel in distress in need of saving or a sex object desperate to be possessed, but because she owns her life and herself and tells her story her own way. Confidence and knowing who you are are infinitely sexier and more alluring than any shiny spandex bodysuit, any day.
Mockingbird is another shining example of how Marvel is doggedly committed to undoing decades of one-dimensional, eye-candy women and transforming them into self-aware, thoughtful and flawed characters independent of any of the male character stories. Mockingbird is one of the best, most refreshing manifestations of this shift in philosophy.
You should read this book.
This is one of the best - BEST - short run books I've ever read. It is wholly different from any other book, let alone a female heroine book. Bobbi Morse is smart, beautiful, sarcastic as hell and in command of her own story. She is not a prop for any male hero, yet she is not above enjoying their admiration. She kicks ass and loves her femininity without hating masculinity. This run of Mockingbird is entirely about the development and exploration of her character. There are almost no super-powers to speak of, and no alien invasions or the interpersonal posturing and bickering of The Avengers. The book does not suffer at all from a lack of the usual comic book stuff, as it fills the void expertly with Bobbi's recounting of a fun, intrigue-filled spy story about her and her ex-husband Hawkeye who, elsewhere in the Marvel universe, is in big trouble for having murdered a very important Avenger. It's a welcome, back-to-earth shift from the typical high-stakes cosmic battle fare of most current books.
One of the best parts of this book is the artwork. There are so many hilarious details to find in the backgrounds and the sidebars, and they become more interesting as you read through each issue and the non-linear timeline of the story becomes clearer. Writer Chelsea Cain magnificently flips the script on the tired trope of the female characters and heroines always showing up in the panels half-dressed and impossibly proportioned by deftly, but not cruelly, placing the male characters - Clint Barton(Hawkeye) and Lance Hunter - in similarly emasculating situations. They both appear shirtless throughout the run and a little helpless without Bobbi's intervention, although we know they are not helpless at all. Bobbi's re-telling of events may not always be accurate, but it is her truth. Cain's writing and characterizations are a perfectly clear but not offensively heavy-handed feminist right hook that will spin your head 180º with an idiot-grin on your face from the realization that you are in totally in love with Bobbi Morse. Not because she is a damsel in distress in need of saving or a sex object desperate to be possessed, but because she owns her life and herself and tells her story her own way. Confidence and knowing who you are are infinitely sexier and more alluring than any shiny spandex bodysuit, any day.
Mockingbird is another shining example of how Marvel is doggedly committed to undoing decades of one-dimensional, eye-candy women and transforming them into self-aware, thoughtful and flawed characters independent of any of the male character stories. Mockingbird is one of the best, most refreshing manifestations of this shift in philosophy.
You should read this book.
October 20, 2016
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.
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.
October 21, 2016
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!
October 21, 2016
This was SO disappointing.
October 25, 2016
This has been a real fun series. I'm sad to see it go.
Would love to read more of this RIDICULOUSLY GOOD writing.
Would love to read more of this RIDICULOUSLY GOOD writing.
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November 13, 2016Picked this up for the cover and read the end of the run first... Would now like to go back and put the prices together!
December 18, 2016
Nerdy sisters,alpine threesomes,feminist agendas,mercorgis¡!
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June 11, 2018hilarant
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