Mockingbird #2 Review

Writer: Chelsea Cain / Artists: Kate Niemczyk, Rachelle Rosenberg / Marvel Comics Y’all, I’m sorry. I mislead you and I apologize.

Confession: I should have given Mockingbird #1 an 8. Re-read it last night and it is *that good.* #NCBD #lastweek #imslow #blknerdproblems — Deaconess Light (@LEHLight) March 16, 2016

But now I’ve got a chance to steer you right, and I’m going to do just that. Here’s my official recommendation: READ THIS COMIC. It is mature, complicated, and hilariously funny. Don’t just take my word for it, check the opening panels:

That’s Lancelot Hunter, British Intelligence, occasional S.H.I.E.L.D. operative and occasional Bobbi Morse boyfriend. Except, as she says, they aren’t official. Lance is undercover, trying to infiltrate The Hellfire Club’s London branch, led by the Black Queen. But he’s gotten in over his head and Bobbi’s here to get him out. The dialog throughout is a perfect example of Cain’s style and her version of Bobbi Morse. She harasses Hunter even as she supports him, letting in just enough emotion so you know that she really is attached — but not so much that she comes off as vulnerable. Bobbi is never vulnerable. What she is… well… that is yet to be seen as we see her powers continue to manifest even as they remain mysterious. Once she releases Lance from the Hellfire Club’s clutches, Bobbi pursues and catches the Black Queen. It seems certain that the Black Queen’s psychic powers will undo Bobbi, but… they don’t.

I won’t spoil t…