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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Read in single issues. What impresses me most about this project is how much it manages to accomplish at once. It refreshes the original Young Avengers series; it hooks readers of Gillen's Journey Into Mystery run; and it manages to be entirely its own thing. I like the thought that Gillen has put into this particular team and the way it resists covering old ground, and McKelvie's art is practically a perfect match. Plus, this is one of those comics that you read and think, "Wow, the writer and artist are having so much fun putting this together," and that's generally a good sign. One of my current favorites.
"Young Avengers in its first incarnation was about being sixteen.
This Young Avengers is about being eighteen.
The difference is telling and profound. At sixteen it's still about wanting to be in the adult world. At eighteen it's about being in the adult world whether you want to or not."
I read my first issue of YA, coincidentally when i was 16. I'm 18 reading this. Looking back it's crazy to see how much things have changed in two years.
It's not Heinberg/Cheung. It's its own thing, and that's great. I love how the book has changed, grown, even, and still has mantained the things we love the most. The humor, the bond, the heart.
The art is so beautiful i'm in awe. A flawless penciling by Mckelvie. He managed to change beloved characters, make them his own, and still please the most hardcore fans. And the coloring, oh my god. I had gotten used to the plain, two tones coloring, which to be fair I understand since making a comic must be so laborious. But here it is so perfectly blended, and the colors are so bright and vibrant. It really brings the characters to life. God the amount of work in each frame. Amazing.
Every little detail. From "be my baby" to the tags on yamblr. So gooood.
ps: the part when wiccan wants to cast "iwishiwassomeonebtter' and he said it's he one that never works. i'm so hurt? how dared he?? i feeel personally attacked??? billy is the purest bean in the world???? excuse me Mr. Gillen????
pps: just like when i finshed reading YA vol.1 and i wanted to read every single comic made by heinberg, now i want to read every single comic made by gillen!!
ppps: america obsessing over billy in a #nohetero way is me 100% i love her
This Young Avengers is about being eighteen.
The difference is telling and profound. At sixteen it's still about wanting to be in the adult world. At eighteen it's about being in the adult world whether you want to or not."
I read my first issue of YA, coincidentally when i was 16. I'm 18 reading this. Looking back it's crazy to see how much things have changed in two years.
It's not Heinberg/Cheung. It's its own thing, and that's great. I love how the book has changed, grown, even, and still has mantained the things we love the most. The humor, the bond, the heart.
The art is so beautiful i'm in awe. A flawless penciling by Mckelvie. He managed to change beloved characters, make them his own, and still please the most hardcore fans. And the coloring, oh my god. I had gotten used to the plain, two tones coloring, which to be fair I understand since making a comic must be so laborious. But here it is so perfectly blended, and the colors are so bright and vibrant. It really brings the characters to life. God the amount of work in each frame. Amazing.
Every little detail. From "be my baby" to the tags on yamblr. So gooood.
ps: the part when wiccan wants to cast "iwishiwassomeonebtter' and he said it's he one that never works. i'm so hurt? how dared he?? i feeel personally attacked??? billy is the purest bean in the world???? excuse me Mr. Gillen????
pps: just like when i finshed reading YA vol.1 and i wanted to read every single comic made by heinberg, now i want to read every single comic made by gillen!!
ppps: america obsessing over billy in a #nohetero way is me 100% i love her
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Unfamiliar with the Young Avengers, I felt a little behind on the characters. I enjoyed the story overall and there were a few really unique moments.
I dont have anything agaisnt it, it was just pretty blank for me.
This is a pretty much perfect beginning to the newer run of the Young Avengers, following after the initial 2006 Young Avengers run and Children's Crusade.
After the previous team of Young Avengers fell apart, some of them have stayed away, and others are still out living that superhero life. When a threat against the universe appears, it's Kid Loki who decides to get a new team together, bringing in the new members, America Chavez (a dimension-hopping lesbian latina) and Noh-Varr (a disaffected Kree ex-soldier with a love for earth music), as well as pulling back some previous ones, such as Kate Bishop (rich girl with a bow and Hawkeye #2), Billy Kaplan (chaos-mage and son of the Scarlet Witch, Wiccan), and Teddy (a shape-shifting skrull-kree hybrid prince and Billy's boyfriend, Hulkling).
The threat? An eldritch terror known as Mother, who has the ability to brainwash adults , a parasite who is drawn to Billy's reality-warping powers in the hopes of eating his soul.
The threat is big, but the comic doesn't lose narrative focus on the characters' feelings as they face their own parents turned against them, or dead parents brought back to torment them. And McKelvie's art fully brings in the strange, eldritch, mystical powers by breaking all the rules of paneling and coming out the better for it. The writing is snappy, funny, and just great at building off what we've already seen of these characters -- and not afraid to not be funny, too, dropping the occasional icy bomb with great effect. I've been looking forward to starting this arc for my entire reread, and I'm very glad to finally be here.
(See my reading guide to the Young Avengers, which also links to my other Young Avengers reviews, over here.)
After the previous team of Young Avengers fell apart, some of them have stayed away, and others are still out living that superhero life. When a threat against the universe appears, it's Kid Loki who decides to get a new team together, bringing in the new members, America Chavez (a dimension-hopping lesbian latina) and Noh-Varr (a disaffected Kree ex-soldier with a love for earth music), as well as pulling back some previous ones, such as Kate Bishop (rich girl with a bow and Hawkeye #2), Billy Kaplan (chaos-mage and son of the Scarlet Witch, Wiccan), and Teddy (a shape-shifting skrull-kree hybrid prince and Billy's boyfriend, Hulkling).
The threat? An eldritch terror known as Mother, who has the ability to brainwash adults , a parasite who is drawn to Billy's reality-warping powers in the hopes of eating his soul.
The threat is big, but the comic doesn't lose narrative focus on the characters' feelings as they face their own parents turned against them, or dead parents brought back to torment them. And McKelvie's art fully brings in the strange, eldritch, mystical powers by breaking all the rules of paneling and coming out the better for it. The writing is snappy, funny, and just great at building off what we've already seen of these characters -- and not afraid to not be funny, too, dropping the occasional icy bomb with great effect. I've been looking forward to starting this arc for my entire reread, and I'm very glad to finally be here.
(See my reading guide to the Young Avengers, which also links to my other Young Avengers reviews, over here.)
Fun, clever, good art, representation, Loki! I won't continue on, but I hope the series does well.