Geekin' 'bout Comics: Mockingbird

I’m so excited that Marvel has finally brought back to life one of my favorite characters – Mockingbird. I first discovered Bobbi Morse’s super heroine in Marvel Team-Up #96 (I didn’t know about her stories with Ka-Zar in Astonishing Tales until later). From just that one appearance, I liked her so much I included her in my own Marvel superhero team (fan fiction in my mind, lol). I don’t remember what the name of the group was but it consisted of Moon Knight, Adam Warlock, Tigra, Deathlok and Mockingbird (funny how three of them went on to become members of the West Coast Avengers, eh?)
Just imagine how happy little Markie was when writer Mark Gruenwald teamed Mockingbird up with another of my favorite Marvel characters – Hawkeye – in the first Hawkeye limited series. She soon followed him to the West Coast Avengers series. They loved, they fought, they got back together, kinda. Until that @#$% Mephisto killed her in AWC #100. Fortunately, I wasn’t reading the book at the time (just buying it and putting it away). But I was still very disappointed.
But now we learn in Secret Invasion, it wasn’t her after all and that she was replaced by a Skrull! She’s now a member of the New Avengers and starring in the New Avengers: The Reunion limited series with Hawkeye/Ronin. I couldn’t be happier. Unless they make a Marvel Legend action figure out of her!