9 Reasons You Should Be Reading Marvel’s MOCKINGBIRD

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Mockingbird is a Complex Character

Mockingbird/Bobbi Morse is a fascinating character: part agent (and played by Adrianne Palicki on the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. show), part scientist, part superhero mutant—and all sarcastic, all the time. She’s like a blend of Wonder Woman, Lorelai Gilmore from Gilmore Girls, and Cosima from Orphan Black. In the comic, Chelsea Cain has written her as a character not only fun and likeable, but very layered.

Cain is no stranger to writing complex women: a novelist, she is the author of the Archie Sheridan and Gretchen Lowell thriller series, starting with Heartsick, which focuses on a detective who’s captured and tortured by a female serial killer—yet, years later, still finds himself drawn to her.

Though Bobbi Morse is no murderer, her actions, feelings, and thoughts stem from a complicated blend of her superpowers, wisdom, knowledge of what’s right, and desire to protect. Chelsea Cain also emphasizes in her responses to reader letters at the back of issues that what we see in the panels is not necessarily reality, but the way Mockingbird views her world. “I’ve always said this little run of Mockingbird was going to be grounded in Bobbi’s POV,” Cain writes. “It’s not the truth. It’s not what happened. It’s just her point of view. She’s the one who gets to tell the story.”