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Chelsea Cain And Kate Niemczyk To Launch New Mockingbird Comic From Marvel

Published Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:24:59 -0600

Last updated Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:34:00 -0600

It was announced at the Baltimore Comic Con Summit that Chelsea Cain would be writing a new Mockingbird comic book. And here it is, drawn by Kate Niemczyk.

Chelsea talked to Marvel's website saying "she'd never had her own book – and even the one-shot was part of the 50th Anniversary of S.H.I.E.L.D. thing. She's been really underserved by the Marvel Universe. She's always appeared in other people's stories, serving their narratives. So I love the idea of giving her a chance to be the center of a story and to really have some agency."

Which is handy, considering her presence in the Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD TV show and upcoming spinoff TV show. As for what this comic is about "the plot of the first five issues is rooted very much in Bobbi's medical history. [Nick] Fury saved her life with a dose of Super Solider Serum and Infinity Formula, and I really wanted to explore the fallout from that. She's got to go in every week for a medical check-up. And I loved the idea of this medical clinic for super heroes—a place where they go to get stitched up and get their Prozac refilled. And the waiting room would be full of bored heroes leafing through old issues of 'Us Weekly.' Would Bobbi uncover a conspiracy in that sort of environment? Well she is good at ferreting out conspiracies having been subjected to them a number of times herself. Frankly she's a little sensitive about that. But the books will also show Bobbi on her personal time, and off having Bond-level adventures—the Roger Moore years."