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YOUNG AVENGERS, NEW AVENGERS, AND VENGEFUL SENTIMENTS

(This post got deleted somehow after it was posted.. sorry.)

   

I had no idea what to expect with this new title that came out yesterday.  "Young Avengers" from Marvel comics had given me kind of a "muppet babies" vibe when I read it's preview in "Marvel Now .1".  I read it, and it was entertaining, but I still have no idea where and when it's supposed to take place, so if you're reading this, don't expect to gain any new information.  What I do know is this: If you want to see cute, young versions of your favorite Marvel heroes, check out A-Babies Vs. X-Babies, because this is a whole other thing.

The book opens when a teenage girl, who you thankfully find out is 18 when you read the message in the back from Kieron Gillen, wakes up in some dude's bed, unsure of where she is.  She looks out the window and sees the planet Earth just below, at which point her male companion returns from his shower, and dances to oldies in his underwear until the Skrulls attack.

Then we're whisked away to see a guy pretending to be Spider-Man take a bullet from a street thug before his right arm becomes two stretchy arms and he punches out two street thugs at once.  He then turns into a kid with a Justin Bieber look and climbs into a window, where he gets in a brief fight with his boyfriend, and then they make up.

As soon as that's over a hot chick wearing a stars and stripes costume similar to that of Captain America, who calls herself Miss America, is intervening at a diner where a young man who looks like, acts like, and is named Loki, has just refused to clean up after himself.

I won't spoil the ending.

But if you want to know what's going on in Comics that's got my juices pumping, it's Black Panther in "New Avengers #2".  Black Panther, also known as T'Challa, King of Wakanda, is unhappy with the most hate-able character in the Marvel Universe: Namor.  Namor is the same asinine scumbag who broke two doors and an elevator on his way into Matt Murdock's office while trying to obtain a lawyer to help him sue the entire human race for possession of the Earth's surface.

During AvX, Namor got a little trigger happy with the power of the Phoenix and let his dislike for the human race get a little out of control.  If there was anyone wondering if T'Challa may have forgiven him, they won't be after reading NA2.

Will it happen?  Doubtful, but any super hero who threatens to kill Namor jumps right up in my reading list.  In my last post I mentioned that I'd be hunting for some Black Panther; that was because I had just read this issue.