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Nobbel
09-21-2005, 01:24 PM
Who did kill Mockingbird?
Cayman
09-21-2005, 01:31 PM
Mephisto, wasn't it?

Cay
Harold of the Rocks
09-21-2005, 01:33 PM
"To"...

"To Kill a Mockingbird"...says so right in the title.

Just wondering if you could make the thread title a little more vague. That kind of detail gets to be a bit overwhelming... ;)
Nobbel
09-21-2005, 01:34 PM
"To"...

"To Kill a Mockingbird"...says so right in the title.

Just wondering if you could make the thread title a little more vague. That kind of detail gets to be a bit overwhelming... ;)

ha, you're so funny!
Shellhead
09-21-2005, 01:42 PM
Bad writing and apathy killed Mockingbird. She was kind of cool at first.
Kirk G
09-21-2005, 01:57 PM
Bad writing and apathy killed Mockingbird. She was kind of cool at first.

That's probably more accurate that anything.
I thought she bit the big one, took the dirt nap, started pushing up daisies, became worm food, dropped to the zero brain level, and gave up the ghost...
in about West Coast Avengers #100... the last few books in the series, right?
Or am I off a few issues? Didn't this pretty much end the series? It took the wind out of Clint's sails, didn't it?

Yes, It's my understanding that while leading them away, out of hades, Mock was struck in the back by a blast from Myphisto (sp?) much in the vein of greek mythology...
What was that tale where his wife turned back? Lott? Book of Jobe?
Cayman
09-21-2005, 02:02 PM
That's probably more accurate that anything.
I thought she bit the big one, took the dirt nap, started pushing up daisies, became worm food, dropped to the zero brain level, and gave up the ghost...
in about West Coast Avengers #102... the last books in the series, right?
Or am I off a few issues? Didn't this pretty much end the series? It took the wind out of Clint's sails, didn't it?

Yes, It's my understanding that while leading them away, out of hades, Mock was struck in the back by a blast from Myphisto (sp?) much in the vein of greek mythology...
What was that tale where his wife turned back? Lott? Book of Jobe?

Or the story of Orpheus.

Cay
Dermie
09-21-2005, 04:18 PM
That's probably more accurate that anything.
I thought she bit the big one, took the dirt nap, started pushing up daisies, became worm food, dropped to the zero brain level, and gave up the ghost...
in about West Coast Avengers #102... the last books in the series, right?
Or am I off a few issues? Didn't this pretty much end the series? It took the wind out of Clint's sails, didn't it?

Mockingbird was killed in #100 by Mephisto. #102 was the series finale.
sonofagun
09-26-2005, 01:15 PM
Mockingbird was killed in #100 by Mephisto. #102 was the series finale.
And then years later during the "Kurt Perez" years We almost had her comeback, but then the story got relegated to a Thunderbolts Annual, and we ended getting back Hellcat, you just gotta wonder what Marvel was spiking their Koolaid with when this decision was made, and I know they were going for a moonstone hawkeye fling, but still....
Shellhead
09-26-2005, 01:29 PM
And then years later during the "Kurt Perez" years We almost had her comeback, but then the story got relegated to a Thunderbolts Annual, and we ended getting back Hellcat, you just gotta wonder what Marvel was spiking their Koolaid with when this decision was made, and I know they were going for a moonstone hawkeye fling, but still....

It may have seemed that way to you, but you probably are unaware that Hellcat, aka Patsy Walker, has been in comics for decades longer than Mockingbird. And sadly, Mockingbird is not much more than Marvel's version of Black Canary.
Mo S.
09-26-2005, 01:35 PM
It may have seemed that way to you, but you probably are unaware that Hellcat, aka Patsy Walker, has been in comics for decades longer than Mockingbird. And sadly, Mockingbird is not much more than Marvel's version of Black Canary.

I never understood that one. With all the similiarites over the years between Hawkeye and Green Arrow (yes, GA came first, but Hawkeye had the attitude first, so it all works out, I guess), you'd have thought that Marvel would want to further differentiate them, yet they gave him a wife/girlfriend who was even more similar to her DC counterpart (who was also GA's girlfriend) than he was.

I liked the "early" Mockingbird, but I hated the "Battling Bartons" and disliked her character toward the end of the WCA/AWC run.
Shellhead
09-26-2005, 01:37 PM
I never understood that one. With all the similiarites over the years between Hawkeye and Green Arrow (yes, GA came first, but Hawkeye had the attitude first, so it all works out, I guess), you'd have thought that Marvel would want to further differentiate them, yet they gave him a wife/girlfriend who was even more similar to her DC counterpart (who was also GA's girlfriend) than he was.

I liked the "early" Mockingbird, but I hated the "Battling Bartons" and disliked her character toward the end of the WCA/AWC run.

Me, too. One of these days, I would like to track down her first couple of appearances, when she was still closely involved with S.H.I.E.L.D.
tricksterpup
09-26-2005, 01:53 PM
Bad writing and apathy killed Mockingbird. She was kind of cool at first.
Bendis wrote her?
Mo S.
09-26-2005, 02:07 PM
Bendis wrote her?

Well, Byrne did, and since Bendis seems to be re-animating the corpses of some of Byrne's storylines -- call it "proto-Bendis" writing.