COMMENTARY TRACK: Gillen & McKelvie Discuss "Young Avengers" #1

[CBR News]

"Young Avengers" creative team Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie taking us behind the inaugural issue that redefines what it means to be a teenager in the Marvel Universe. Plus, an exclusive look at Gillen's script!


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[Mr. Holmes]

Gillen: It is. I'll tell you what, I kind of reverse-analyzed this. It's basically taking what was originally Marvel Boy with Grant Morrison's take and what Brian [Bendis] did with him in the Avengers and trying to work out a way to potentially synthesize them, because they're two very different takes

Whyyyyyyyyyyyy

[Zagreus]

Well, there's this, his Noh-Varr is far superior already to the uninspired, insipid, Bendis "Protector". He's not the Namoreque Marvel Boy that Morrison wrote, who was pretty cool, but this is not a bad take either, while keeping some semblance of continuity. So, I'm down with it.

[Mr. Holmes]

Between this and the ending of JiM, everything I was excited for this book is gone. I was going to hesitantly pick up the next issue, but now forget it.

[Drew Melbourne]

I don't know that this quite rises to the level of Fraction and Aja's HAWKEYE (which is, like, the best book out there right now), but I appreciate their ambition and am excited to see where they're going with this.

[HeroxMatt2.0]

I love the Reed Richards and Doctor Doom analogy.

...he's Reed Richards and I'm Doctor Doom, because I'm the bitter European. Cursed Fraction!

[Confuzzled Mutie]

I don't know that this quite rises to the level of Fraction and Aja's HAWKEYE (which is, like, the best book out there right now), but I appreciate their ambition and am excited to see where they're going with this.

Both titles break away from typical mainstream standards and both are incredibly ambitious. Also, we have just seen one issue of YA, so not really a fair comparison.

Oh, and Gillen's Noh-Varr is perfect!

[Rheged]

Well, there's this, his Noh-Varr is far superior already to the uninspired, insipid, Bendis "Protector". He's not the Namoreque Marvel Boy that Morrison wrote, who was pretty cool, but this is not a bad take either, while keeping some semblance of continuity. So, I'm down with it.

He's still a bit like Namor, but more like the Atlas era Namor, or the late golden age Namor, who would put on a zoot suit and take Betty Dean out dancing.

I didn't care for Bendis' Protector at all, so this a big improvement, for me.

[THANOSRULES]

I like how he immediately acknowledged Noh-varr was from an alternate dimension's Kree race...I really don't think Bendis ever got into that (surprise)...it also always confused me because i believed the whole Morrison mini was in a non-616 earth...and I don't think this has ever been properly addressed.

These are the kind of things that frustrate you when Gillen manages to accomplish some nod to continuity with a simple line of text...which Bendis would never do and instead inflame people as to continuity problems when the answer is just that easy.

I enjoyed Issue #1 of this book and it looks to be solid...

[RobertoDaCosta]

a have complain about this already, but Teddy was supposed to have like 5 or 6 earrings on each side!! that was cool!!
oh and after pulling Scott Lang from the past, Billy should know someone would end up dead.

[Kieran_Frost]

oh and after pulling Scott Lang from the past, Billy should know someone would end up dead.

They are not entirely linked. Bringing Scott Lang from the past triggered Cassie's death (in the sense of when she believed he died, she attacked Doctor Doom and it led to her death). But it didn't "have to" end that way. Cassie didn't die as a direct result of bringing Lang back from the past; it was due to events AFTER that caused her to snuff it.

[-Wiccan-]

Maybe a stupid question, but is it the same Noh-Varr as seen in Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon??

[yanapryde]

a have complain about this already, but Teddy was supposed to have like 5 or 6 earrings on each side!! that was cool!!

Your aesthetic complaints are hereby invalid. Accept the gages.