Marvel has been developing a lot of new characters lately, many of them females carrying their own books. I’m glad to see it, and even more glad to be enjoying it. The new Wasp showed up a while ago in one of the Avengers books, and wandered around as a background character briefly. Now, she gets her own title in “The Unstoppable Wasp.”
This is one of those things I wish I didn’t have to write. Every time I think I see the depths of human stupidity and ignorance, someone starts digging deeper. I largely stay out of controversies that swirl around the internet. This one is just so wrong, and so egregious, I couldn’t.
Several months ago, I picked up Mockingbird 1. I’d never heard of the writer, Chelsea Cain, but I’ve been a Mockingbird fan since the first time I ran across her in the Hawkeye limited series. I’ve really enjoyed the combination of action, comedy, and what I guess you could call superhero satire. It’s been a really amusing spin on a character I’ve liked for a while now.
This is the reunion I’ve wanted since they announced Mockingbird was getting her own book. I’m figuring it’s not a spoiler to say Hawkeye shows up since he’s on the cover. Their interaction is a blast to watch. Sadly, there’s no sign of them getting back together, but I didn’t really think that was going to happen. There are, however, some hysterical scenes of them in what appears to be a marriage counselor’s office.
I’ve always been a fan of Mockingbird. I think she’s gotten largely ignored in the over-all Marvel Universe. They seem to be fixing that now, with the debut of her solo title. This is set in the main Marvel continuity, after the desperate attempt to save Mockingbird’s life in New Avengers ended up with exposed to a combination of the Super-Soldier Serum that turned scrawny Steve Rogers into Captain America, and the Infinity Formula that’s kept World War II army sergeant Nick Fury young and on top of his game enough to be head of SHIELD decades later.
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