{"id":46433,"date":"2026-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=46433"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:47:23","slug":"the-ballad-of-mockingbirds-and-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-ballad-of-mockingbirds-and-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"The ballad of Mockingbirds and Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even incomplete, it's good that the bio on the back of the Phantom Rider's<\/a> box specifies the toy is Carter and not his brother Lincoln. When Carter was killed in a cave-in one of his villains triggered, he passed the secret identity on to Linc; sadly, Lincoln was less stable than his brother, and soon started believing he was really a divine spirit.<\/p>\n

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When the West Coast Avengers were travelling through time, he became obsessed with Mockingbird<\/a>, so he kidnapped, drugged, and assaulted her. When the other Western heroes freed her, she went looking for revenge, and while fighting Lincoln on a rainy cliffside, allowed him to fall to his death.<\/p>\n

(Incidentally, this series of events is what led Hawkeye<\/a> to divorce her. Way to not support your wife through her trauma, CLINT. You really prove why comics lettered in all-caps used to avoid your name.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Turns out negligent homicide wasn't as cathartic as she hoped, a situation that's never been helped by Lincoln's ghost repeatedly returning and trying to make her be his again.<\/p>\n

If that's all a bit heavy for you and you need a mental palate cleanser, here's a small one: Magazine Enterprises' Rex Fury wasn't written out of Marvel continuity entirely; one of the Official Handbooks<\/i> revealed that Nick Fury<\/a> is a descendant of \"one of the men who wore the Phantom Rider mask in the late nineteenth century,\" meaning the director of SHIELD is just one of a long line of lawmen.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>