Young Avengers #1 *Preview*

[CBR News]

Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's "Young Avengers" #1 is pure superhero fun mixed with bold comics innovation in a perfect debut for the Marvel NOW! series.


Full article here.

[Jakerose]

Why are those reviews always a day later ?

[spiderrmonkey]

So the Buy Pile will hate it?

[jazz41]

It is amazing how different reactions can come from reading the same story. This issue did absolutely nothing for me. I don't see a perfectly executed symphony with all the elements working in such sublime concert with one another as the reviewer states. I see a whiny Wiccan, a Hulkling who fails so hard at being Spiderman it is not believable, a Kid Loki who says words like "terribad." The scene with Kate and Noh-Varr is the best in the whole book, the only scene that was believable to me.

I'm glad that there is a book out there that makes others happy, but I didn't see all that was wonderful about this issue. I guess I'm not that hip

[Jakerose]

No not really this a book thats written for boys and Girls kinda like Katekyō Hitman Reborn! and D.Gray-man.
Its good that a women gets to review it.

[I Am Groot!]

Great book. It has such a vibrant and modern feel. One bothersome thing I found was Noh-Varr hooking up with Kate... Dudes already got a goth girlfriend that thinks he's dead and is probably mad worried about him. How the hell did they meet? Not that Bendis's story line was good at all but some continuity would still be good.

[cookepuss]

It's a fun book, but definitely not 5 stars. To me, it's a 3.5 - good, but not something I have to read twice.

The art was okay, if a bit uninspiring. The plot, whatever there is, don't really break any new ground. It's like cotton candy. Tasty in the moment, but forgettable. It's the characterizations that bother me the most.

- I felt America Chavez is a fairly decent waste of page space here. As somebody who's unfamiliar with her, I found her character to be annoying and poorly designed, visually speaking.
- Loki was good, but when isn't he? I could read an entire Kid Loki series.
- I like the Billy & Teddy dynamic, but I feel that they have to spend a bit less time whining. I don't mind sensitive, but I think that they really need to dial it back. Too much "woe is me" coming from these guys lately. I'm not sure how much I can take.
- Kate... Oh... Poor, poor Kate. With the fantastic work being done on the character in Hawkeye, she's nearly unrecognizable here. You could just as well call her "Jane" and nobody would notice. She suffers the most here.
- Noh-Varr... Eh. He's never been too (un)likable. Still isn't. It's just, now, he comes off like a poor man's Longshot with his child like simplicity and frank speech.

To me, 3.5. Here, YA reads like a poor man's X-Factor. Sadly, Gillen is no PAD and his knack for character work is just "okay". YA is a step up from Gillen's awful Generation Hope, but only just.

[Nyadnar17]

I would be hard pressed to think of a better First Issue in the Marvel Now relaunch. We get an actually complete story with a beginning, middle, and end. We get a mission statement as to what this book is going to be all about. We get our first major plot hook.


As first issues go this book was really good.




P.S.
Pretty sure Kid Loki has said terribad before.

[Dog]

This is the same reviewer who loves Captain Marvel and hates X-Men Legacy. Take that for what it's worth (if anything).

[cookepuss]

And the last page was a perfect cliffhanger IMHO. But, I'm only speaking for myself.

And you didn't think that it was predictable? I thought that it as. Shape shifting mom. Alternate world version. "Host" parents who are just too cool for words. The ending was telegraphed, imo. Nice way to get you to come back for more, but not really surprising.

[Knightbuster]

And you didn't think that it was predictable? I thought that it as. Shape shifting mom. Alternate world version. "Host" parents who are just too cool for words. The ending was telegraphed, imo. Nice way to get you to come back for more, but not really surprising.

It surprised me actually. I think the ending was good.

[cookepuss]

This is the same reviewer who loves Captain Marvel and hates X-Men Legacy. Take that for what it's worth (if anything).

I do think that Legacy had some teething issues that were hard to ignore, almost as if the book itself had multiple personalities. However, this most recent Blindfold related issue was a decent improvement. Spurrier just needs to remember the old writer's axiom of "Show. Don't tell." He's spoon feeding us stuff we should be allowed to discover.

[nosocialize100]

It's a fun book, but definitely not 5 stars. To me, it's a 3.5 - good, but not something I have to read twice.

The art was okay, if a bit uninspiring. The plot, whatever there is, don't really break any new ground. It's like cotton candy. Tasty in the moment, but forgettable. It's the characterizations that bother me the most.

- I felt America Chavez is a fairly decent waste of page space here. As somebody who's unfamiliar with her, I found her character to be annoying and poorly designed, visually speaking.
- Loki was good, but when isn't he? I could read an entire Kid Loki series.
- I like the Billy & Teddy dynamic, but I feel that they have to spend a bit less time whining. I don't mind sensitive, but I think that they really need to dial it back. Too much "woe is me" coming from these guys lately. I'm not sure how much I can take.
- Kate... Oh... Poor, poor Kate. With the fantastic work being done on the character in Hawkeye, she's nearly unrecognizable here. You could just as well call her "Jane" and nobody would notice. She suffers the most here.
- Noh-Varr... Eh. He's never been too (un)likable. Still isn't. It's just, now, he comes off like a poor man's Longshot with his child like simplicity and frank speech.

To me, 3.5. Here, YA reads like a poor man's X-Factor. Sadly, Gillen is no PAD and his knack for character work is just "okay". YA is a step up from Gillen's awful Generation Hope, but only just.

Definitively an 8 for me.

[cookepuss]

It surprised me actually. I think the ending was good.

I didn't say that it was bad. I just thought that it was predictable in the sense that you could see him planting the seeds throughout the issue. Maybe it's just me. M. Night Shyamalan's "twist" endings to 6th Sense and Unbreakable felt telegraphed to me too. What do I know? :)

[Basterdshark]

It's a fun book, but definitely not 5 stars. To me, it's a 3.5 - good, but not something I have to read twice.

The art was okay, if a bit uninspiring. The plot, whatever there is, don't really break any new ground. It's like cotton candy. Tasty in the moment, but forgettable. It's the characterizations that bother me the most.

- I felt America Chavez is a fairly decent waste of page space here. As somebody who's unfamiliar with her, I found her character to be annoying and poorly designed, visually speaking.
- Loki was good, but when isn't he? I could read an entire Kid Loki series.
- I like the Billy & Teddy dynamic, but I feel that they have to spend a bit less time whining. I don't mind sensitive, but I think that they really need to dial it back. Too much "woe is me" coming from these guys lately. I'm not sure how much I can take.
- Kate... Oh... Poor, poor Kate. With the fantastic work being done on the character in Hawkeye, she's nearly unrecognizable here. You could just as well call her "Jane" and nobody would notice. She suffers the most here.
- Noh-Varr... Eh. He's never been too (un)likable. Still isn't. It's just, now, he comes off like a poor man's Longshot with his child like simplicity and frank speech.

To me, 3.5. Here, YA reads like a poor man's X-Factor. Sadly, Gillen is no PAD and his knack for character work is just "okay". YA is a step up from Gillen's awful Generation Hope, but only just.

You read like a poor man's critic.

Just kidding. I would never stoop to such inane criticism. Especially to debunk inane criticism.

Style > Substance.