Mockingbird helps a young girl with power
7:47 pm 4 December 2016
Mockingbird (2016-) #3 - Kate Niemczyk, Joëlle Jones, Chelsea Cain
Although I have a feeling the girl won't be that well off when she gets home: she unintentionally put her friends at risk. At best, she'll be known as a freak to the other sixth graders, and at worst she'll be taken in and charged. None of this is Bobbi's fault, however. The girl was on TV and in this situation before Bobbi got there, after all.

There were some very small and clever moments about what it means to be a girl. The thread of text on the news made mention of being able to talk about tampons. There are parts of a girl's life that are off limits, though, and how do people - men especially - be expected to talk to young girls when something looming and important in their life is taboo? This question is presented in multiple ways. Literally, through the text on the TV, through other issues of inequality women face.

And yet, it wasn't the full story. The full story was about this girl and the issues of inequality were about how this girl interacted with the world and how it interacted with her. It was an element and never overtook the story to scream message at me. It was also an important enough element that, yes, it was ever present.

Clever, sympathetic, and lovely. And yet I still want this to be a more coherent story arc. I expected it would be in issue one. It sure seemed to be set up to be that, and I'm still miffed that it's not. The story is good enough that it deserves all four stars, and if the story hadn't lived up to my expectations, I would have knocked down the star rating. No more issues on MU and I will definitely wait to read this on MU.
Marvel Graphic Novel read in 2016 ( )