The Best (and Worst) Twitter Jokes about Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Sequel

If you haven’t heard, Harper Lee is publishing a sequel to her iconic novel To Kill a Mockingbird this year. As usual, writers took to Twitter to tweet groaner jokes about the sequel, myself included:

Awesome Harper Lee is publishing "To Kill a Mockingbird" sequel (somehow not titled "Now To Grill the Mockingbird")http://electricliterature.com/harper-lee-to-publish-a-sequel-to-to-kill-a-mockingbird/ …

 — @thelincoln

Here were some of the best (or worst, depending on your POV) Twitter reactions from the lit world:

All novelists are now prohibited from complaining that 2nd novel is "taking forever" to write.pic.twitter.com/VBaIrzYfVZ

 — @_catherinelacey

The first line of Harper Lee's new novel is, "Don't call it a comeback; I've been here for years."

 — @mat_johnson

Yo, nobody better give Harper Lee a bad review. That'd be wrong. That'd be like rating your nana's brownies. She made them, that's enough.

 — @mat_johnson

They say it's hardest to get your second book published, so I'm just glad someone's taking a chance on her.

 — @darinstrauss

Harper Lee, 88, drops mic and walks away

 — @thecatcampbell

Go Set a Watchman: In which Boo Radley is caught in an intrinsic field subtractor, and is now a hairless blue guy, called Blue Radley.

 — @missliberty

I just hope somebody uses this headline: "Hey Boo: Harper Lee Releasing a Second Book."

 — @imjasondiamond

Can't believe Harper Lee didn't go with: 2 Kill 2 Mockingbirds

 — @danwilbur

The new Harper Lee novel is literally The Veronica Mars Movie:pic.twitter.com/ivJmeskG6x

 — @RachelFersh

2 Kill A Mockingbird The Greater Gatsby Slaughterhouse VI let's see what else did we read in high school

 — @kibblesmith

Who is this Harper Lee???? She boutta blow up thanks to Kanye!!! :)

 — @benrhoffman

@imjasondiamond @TheLincoln Did you guys get "To Shill a Mockingbird" yet?

 — @michellelegro

Harper Lee's New Novel Hidden for Years in Hollowed Out Tree.

 — @halimahmarcus

If Harper Lee's second novel isn't successful then her career is over.

 — @reeamilcarscott

Harper Lee is going to publish a sequel after 55 years... and you people think I write slow.

 — @georgerrmartin_