Young Avengers, Vol. 1 Author: Visit Amazon's Kieron Gillen Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0785167080 | Format: EPUB
Young Avengers, Vol. 1 Description
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Reinvented for Marvel NOW!, Young Avengers brings together teen heroes with ties to the company’s highest-profile superheroes, including some familiar faces from previous incarnations of the title as well as a newcomer or two. As a youthful Loki attempts to bring the team back together for unrevealed purposes, the reality-altering Wiccan casts a spell for his boyfriend that goes hideously awry. Now, the teammates must reunite to fend off their own deceased parents, plucked from various realities with violently prohibitive attitudes that would make any teen revolt. Centering on a gay teen-superhero couple, Wiccan and the shape-shifting Hulkling, the book gives each character an engaging personality or, at least, a fun agenda to play out. The story is tightly bound to established continuity, but it flies by, thanks to clever banter and lightning pacing. It also manages to set a creepy tone with its not-quite-right parents and relevant conflicts that teens will find satisfying. McKelvie turns in clean, polished pages with eye-popping character work and shows some real and very welcome imagination with action sequences. Grades 10-12. --Jesse Karp
About the Author
An award-winning critic and journalist, Kieron Gillen has written for organizations such as PC Gamer, The Guardian, Rock Paper Shotgun and Wired before turning his attention to comics. His previous writing credits include the critically lauded Phonogram, Thor, S.W.O.R.D. and Generation Hope. He has relaunched two longstanding Marvel series in Uncanny X-Men and Journey into Mystery.
Jamie McKelvie is a comic-book creator living in London. He first came to most fans' attention with the publication of Phonogram: Rue Britannia and its sequel The Singles Club, along with writer and frequent collaborator Kieron Gillen (Uncanny X-Men, Journey into Mystery). He is also the creator of Suburban Glamour. McKelvie has gone on to draw numerous projects for Marvel - including Siege: Loki, Invincible Iron Man, Wolverine, Ultimate Spider-Man, Secret Avengers and Generation Hope.
- Series: Young Avengers (Book 1)
- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Marvel; First Edition edition (September 17, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0785167080
- ISBN-13: 978-0785167082
- Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.5 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
You know how certain stories feature kids or teens in them because the storyteller somehow thinks that kids/teens won't identify with the grown-up heroes and need someone relatable? That's generally bogus - nobody wants to be Tom Cruise's whiny kids in War of the Worlds, they want to be Tom Cruise. Nobody wants to be Jar Jar Binks or kid Anakin, they want to be Obi-Wan! Young Avengers somehow subverts that rule by making their teen characters the characters teens - and adults! - would want to be. Part of this success is how well Kieron Gillen's captured what it feels like to be a teenager - turbulent mood swings both up and down, along with the exciting potential of the future, and the screw-it-all attitude that powers you through anything.
The Young Avengers are: Wiccan and his boyfriend Hulkling, Kate Bishop/Hawkeye and her boyfriend Marvel Boy, Kid Loki, and Ms America. Hulkling (and I love the character but what a stupid name!) doesn't have parents and is living with his boyfriend Wiccan and his family who're super-cool with the setup and their kid's sexuality. But he misses his mum, so in an ill-advised scheme, Wiccan conjures up Hulkling's mother from a parallel dimension only for Kid Loki to interfere and the Mother that steps out turns out to be some kind of shape-shifting/Agent Smith-like replicating crazy monster! Young Avengers Assemble!
In a book starring teen heroes, Gillen's choice to make the antagonist an authoritarian figure literally called Mother is pure genius because who do kids rebel against? Their parents! This is my first Young Avengers book so I have no idea how or why Loki is suddenly a 14 year old but he's definitely the best character in the group. Besides his good taste in breakfast food (bacon roll with ketchup - yummers!
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