The newly reconfigured Young Avengers prepare to make their public debut - but first they have to face a threat more powerful than Kang the Conqueror, more dangerous than Mr. Hyde and more cunning than the Masters of Evil: their parents. For these brand-new super heroes, fighting super-villains is child's play compared to maintaining their alter egos! Plus: The Young Avengers meet a familiar-looking teenage superhuman who just may be the key to their uncovering the truth about Wiccan's parentage and secret origin. Meanwhile, Hulkling's quest to discover the exact nature of his tie to the Avengers is interrupted when the Young Avengers finds themselves at war with one of the oldest and most powerful alien races in the Marvel Universe. The search for the truth yields more reversals and revelations than the team can handle! And finally, discover the secret history of the Young Avengers when Jessica Jones and Kat Farrell investigate the kids' origins for a special issue of The Pulse. Who were they and what were their lives like before they met Iron Lad? And what is the future of the team without him? Collects Young Avengers #7-12 and the Young Avengers Special.
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Heinberg's Great New Series Gets Better,
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This review is from: Young Avengers Vol. 2: Family Matters (v. 2) (Hardcover)
The first volume of Allan Heinberg's superb new series Young Avengers was great. This one is much better. Though Iron Man and Captain America tried to break up the Young Avengers, the young group isn't ready to quit just yet. The loss of Iron Lad, their leader and founder, shook the team, but they still feel that there is good to be done and they want to help out.
The Young Avengers are comprised of teenagers who have some sort of connection to members of the premier super-group The Avengers. Patriot/Eli Bradley is the grandson of Isaiah Bradley, the original Captain America. Bradley was a black man who was used as a test subject during World War II, and his powers have been transferred to Eli. Wiccan/Billy Kaplan (formerly Asgardian) thought he had a connection to Thor, but recent events in the first storyline may show that he can do more than thunder. Hulkling/Teddy Altman may look like the Hulk, but his connection is also a little vague. Stature/Cassie Lang is the daughter of Scott Lang, the second Ant-Man. Cassie was able to obtain the chemicals that turned her dad into Ant-Man, and now she has the ability to change size at will. Kate Bishop is the only character on the team without a connection to an Avenger or even superpowers. She forcefully joined the team, and while she may not have powers, she is an expert martial artist and archer. She models herself after Hawkeye and Mockingbird. Finally, there is Vision II, Iron Lad's armor uploaded with the Vision's software. Along with Scott Lang and Hawkeye/Clint Barton, the original Vision was killed during the events of Avengers Disassembled, the event which led to the forming of the Young Avengers. The new Vision has all of the powers of his predecessor, but he doesn't have the experience and his brain patterns are based on Iron Lad's, not Wonder Man's. This collection contains three stories as opposed to the one arc in the first volume (though the issue count in this hardcover is only greater than the first book by one issue, the Young Avengers Special). Secret Identities serves to reintroduce the team with their new costumes and personas, introduce the various characters' families, and shed some light on a very distressing situation with one of the characters. The story looks into how the secrets we keep can hurt the people we love, even if we keep them in order to protect our loved ones from harm. In the Special, Kat Ferrel of the Daily Bugle wants to write a story on the Young Avengers, so Jessica Jones speaks to each member and learns their reasons for joining the team. We are given insight into the pasts of the various characters that show how they came to be where they were when they joined the team. Cassie's life after her dad's death nearly drove her to Los Angeles to join the Runaways (another great book!), Billy and Teddy each have some things in their pasts they would like to forget, Kate suffered from something that really drives her today, and Eli... his story is best left to be discovered. In the final arc, Family Matters, we finally learn who Billy and Teddy are connected to, and another possible Young Avenger shows up. Thomas "Tommy" Sheppard, who looks almost exactly like Billy save for platinum-blond hair, is a kid with the abilities of super-speed and molecular deconstruction (he can blow stuff up). He is forcibly recruited to the Young Avengers after Teddy is kidnapped by two warring alien races, both of whom claim that Teddy is an heir. The story culminates in a huge battle fought alongside the New Avengers. All of the stories are very well-written, with plenty of humor, drama, and action. The art is top-notch. Jim Cheung, who co-created the series with Heinberg, does the art for Family Matters, and he is one of the best working artists today. Andrea DiVitto, the guest artist for Secret Identities, also does a great job with the characters. As for the special, numerous artists are used, and I am not a fan of most of it. I don't like Michael Gaydos' art, which is used in all of the non-flashback stuff in the issue. While I was ok with the art used for Cassie's and Billy's stories, I hated Kate's art, while I was fairly ambivalent towards the art in Teddy and Eli's stories. The one other critique I have is that the Young Avengers seem to be fighting some pretty A-list villains and surviving. I doubt that such a new team could be able to take on Kang the Conqueror, Mr. Hyde, and the aliens in the end, and live to tell about it. Still, this is a minor thing. Young Avengers is destined for great things, and this collection only makes the wait until the relaunch even harder.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Better than Volume 1,
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This review is from: Young Avengers Vol. 2: Family Matters (v. 2) (Hardcover)
This volume collects issues #7-#12 and one special issue of Marvel Comics' 2006 Young Avengers series. Allan Heinberg's plot is stronger than in the first six issues and features appearances from most of the current New Avengers and a massive Kree-Skrull battle. He also offers more character development in thes issues, especially in the special where instead of fighting bad guys the members discuss their origins before an interview with J. Jonah Jameson's newspaper.
The artwork for the regular issues is consistently good. However, the artwork for the special issue alternates between six credited teams of artists, creating a muddled whole where a character looks markedly different on consecutive pages. There are also a few too many annoying spelling mistakes like 'mabye' and 'premiere super-team'. While Marvel has not yet released any issues after #12, I've read that this should be considered a pause and not a cancellation. I'll look for Volume 3 of this series when it becomes available in a few years.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Armed Guards, Federal Agents, and Mandroids...Oh my!,
By Elvis Zombie "Dustin" (Angola, Indiana USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Young Avengers Vol. 2: Family Matters (v. 2) (Hardcover)
Young Avengers and New Avengers fight side by side in this book! Spider-man is as funny as ever, and the Young Avenger Speed is introduced. Wolverine's interaction with Speed later in the book is hilarious, and you also get the backstories for the Y.A. team members. All out craziness ensues with the appearance of the Super-Skrull and a full scale alien invasion. AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! Too bad I can only give it four stars because I hate the new Hawkeye! Clint Barton is rolling in his grave. What were they thinking? Call her Mockingbird or whatever you want but HAWKEYE!...COME ON?
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