Post by Van Plexico on Jan 8, 2006 0:14:59 GMT -5
If you've read YOUNG AVENGERS SPECIAL #1, you probably already have a good idea how much I loved it.
This issue was needed. Before now, pretty much everything we knew about these young people came from bits and pieces, here and there, over the course of their first few issues. That's as it should be, of course, but because we (or Heinberg, rather) simply jumped into the middle of things, in the first issue, we've never known *enough* about them, I think. From my perspective, at least, I wanted to know at least a tiny bit more about who they were and what motivated them to become Young Avengers.
Having one long, extended story based entirely around answering those questions: Perfect.
I wouldn't want this style of issue every month-- it would suddenly start seeming like a Bendis book (albeit Bendis would have taken four regular-sized issues to cover this much ground). But, plopping this sucker down as a one-shot, outside of the flow of the regular series, worked like a charm for me.
The thing that strikes me most is just how *likeable* all these characters are. I don't mean powers or appearances or costumes, I mean how likeable as human beings (well, for the most part, human!) they are.
Another thought that occurs to me: Most of the team can be seen as sort of amalgamations of at least two Avengers. For example, we have a combination Iron Man/Vision, a "Giant Man" who is a female size-changer like the Wasp, a kind of Thor/Scarlet Witch combination, a Hawkeye/Mockingbird/Swordsman combo... add in the Cap and Hulk (sort of) analogues, and who's missing? A few come to mind, but what I'd like to see is a Ms. Marvel / Wonder Man combination-- a female (and we have blonde and brunette white chicks, so maybe a redhead or Asian) who dresses sort of like Carol Danvers but has some kind of energy/ionic powers similar to Wonder Man. Maybe throw in Quicksilver's super speed, too. Just a random thought.
All in all, a great issue. I didn't even mention the art, and while it was by definition uneven, I liked the surprise of not knowing whose style would be on each next page.
And, yes, that last bit had me all fired up.
Great book.
This issue was needed. Before now, pretty much everything we knew about these young people came from bits and pieces, here and there, over the course of their first few issues. That's as it should be, of course, but because we (or Heinberg, rather) simply jumped into the middle of things, in the first issue, we've never known *enough* about them, I think. From my perspective, at least, I wanted to know at least a tiny bit more about who they were and what motivated them to become Young Avengers.
Having one long, extended story based entirely around answering those questions: Perfect.
I wouldn't want this style of issue every month-- it would suddenly start seeming like a Bendis book (albeit Bendis would have taken four regular-sized issues to cover this much ground). But, plopping this sucker down as a one-shot, outside of the flow of the regular series, worked like a charm for me.
The thing that strikes me most is just how *likeable* all these characters are. I don't mean powers or appearances or costumes, I mean how likeable as human beings (well, for the most part, human!) they are.
Another thought that occurs to me: Most of the team can be seen as sort of amalgamations of at least two Avengers. For example, we have a combination Iron Man/Vision, a "Giant Man" who is a female size-changer like the Wasp, a kind of Thor/Scarlet Witch combination, a Hawkeye/Mockingbird/Swordsman combo... add in the Cap and Hulk (sort of) analogues, and who's missing? A few come to mind, but what I'd like to see is a Ms. Marvel / Wonder Man combination-- a female (and we have blonde and brunette white chicks, so maybe a redhead or Asian) who dresses sort of like Carol Danvers but has some kind of energy/ionic powers similar to Wonder Man. Maybe throw in Quicksilver's super speed, too. Just a random thought.
All in all, a great issue. I didn't even mention the art, and while it was by definition uneven, I liked the surprise of not knowing whose style would be on each next page.
And, yes, that last bit had me all fired up.
Great book.
