{"id":9242,"date":"2017-08-30T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T12:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=9242"},"modified":"2026-04-01T22:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:11:01","slug":"mockingbird-vol-1-i-can-explain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/9242","title":{"rendered":"Mockingbird Vol. 1: I Can Explain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/comics\/Mockingbird.php\">Mockingbird<\/a> Vol. 1: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2xxOQIQ\">I Can Explain<\/a><\/em> (2016)  Chelsea Cain, Kate Niemczyk, Ibrahim Moustafa, Joelle Jones<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2xxOQIQ\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mockingbird-vol-1.jpg?resize=195%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8844\" \/><\/a>I said after the first time I read this it was going to need a second reading. But I decided to wait until I had a paper version of the comic, since the ebook versions of comics don&#8217;t work well for me.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed it far more the second time, partially because it was on paper, and partially because I had a better idea of what was going on with the story.<\/p>\n<p>It is a puzzlebox, and it is confusing, but it is also awfully fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Marvel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mockingbird Vol. 1: I Can Explain (2016) Chelsea Cain, Kate Niemczyk, Ibrahim Moustafa, Joelle Jones I said after the first time I read this it was going to need a second reading. But I decided to wait until I had a paper version of the comic, since the ebook versions of comics don&#8217;t work well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,18,48,9,291,41,40],"tags":[521,270],"class_list":["post-9242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-10","category-anthology","category-female","category-graphic-novels","category-paper","category-reread","category-super-hero","tag-marvel-comics","tag-mockingbird"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-2p4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9244,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/9244","url_meta":{"origin":9242,"position":0},"title":"Mockingbird Vol. 2: My Feminist Agenda","author":"Michelle","date":"August 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Mockingbird Vol. 2: My Feminist Agenda (2017) Chelsea Cain, Kate Niemczyk, Sean Parsons, Rachelle Rosenberg Clarification: the last two chapters (issues) in this book are NOT written by Chelsea Cain et al. 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