A review by theresidentbookworm
Mockingbird #8 by Kate Niemczyk, Joëlle Jones, Chelsea Cain

5.0

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.