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Young Avengers, Volume 1: Style > Substance
by Kieron Gillen
So I read all three of these the last couple of days. Its the complete run of the Young Avengers by Gillen and McKelvie. I like comic books but I LOVE them when they have a nice complete story. Say its the novelist in me. These are wonderful. I can't wait to give them a reread to see what I missed in my first quick read through.
All the characters are young, obviously, but not necessarily teenagers. Kate Bishop, Hawkeye, is 20. Noh-varr is older (and a pretty hot alien). The story is quick and action packed even though its not all battle after battle. There's a really adorable couple (And the name Hulking in possibly one of the cutest things I've ever heard), some kick ass girls, and maybe most interesting is kid Loki. I like Loki. He's a complex character who doesn't even know where he stands most of the time.
Now the story itself seems simple, Billy uses his powers to help his boyfriend and things go wrong, all the parents on earth turn against them and they can't get them back until Billy figures out his powers to undo his spell. Its a simplistic summary, but it'll do. Mostly just pick it up because it's cute and funny, the writers are very aware of their fans and things like tumblr. It comes across as current and not TOO over done with trendy references. And in the end you have a wonderful complete story with young superheroes coming into their own and a kid Loki who has become what he needs to be for the new comic Loki: Agents of Asgard (Which by the way, is wonerful. You should go read that, too.)
All the characters are young, obviously, but not necessarily teenagers. Kate Bishop, Hawkeye, is 20. Noh-varr is older (and a pretty hot alien). The story is quick and action packed even though its not all battle after battle. There's a really adorable couple (And the name Hulking in possibly one of the cutest things I've ever heard), some kick ass girls, and maybe most interesting is kid Loki. I like Loki. He's a complex character who doesn't even know where he stands most of the time.
Now the story itself seems simple, Billy uses his powers to help his boyfriend and things go wrong, all the parents on earth turn against them and they can't get them back until Billy figures out his powers to undo his spell. Its a simplistic summary, but it'll do. Mostly just pick it up because it's cute and funny, the writers are very aware of their fans and things like tumblr. It comes across as current and not TOO over done with trendy references. And in the end you have a wonderful complete story with young superheroes coming into their own and a kid Loki who has become what he needs to be for the new comic Loki: Agents of Asgard (Which by the way, is wonerful. You should go read that, too.)