https://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/...tqj1GXzxg&s=19
Turns out it's for a new Unlimited comic featuring Aaron Fischer! And it seems to be hinting at a gathering of young heroes, so perhaps they're forming a new gen of YAs?
https://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/...tqj1GXzxg&s=19
Turns out it's for a new Unlimited comic featuring Aaron Fischer! And it seems to be hinting at a gathering of young heroes, so perhaps they're forming a new gen of YAs?
Damn... the Infinity Comics' Marvel Voices anthology has been going on strong, huh? 95 issues. That's more than you usually get on traditional printed comics these days. I stopped reading it after we didn't get more YA stories, but part of me can't help but wish they would do more digital comics like this for the YA specifically (without it being an anthology) so we could at least feel what it's like to have a long ongoing book.
They need to give the guy a proper YA ongoing. His Unlimited story was the best YA story in ages.
Are the 20 Venom spin-offs they keep launching better sellers than one YA book? I don’t get it.
That's probably true. I mean Spider-Boy of all things is a priority over any of the YA. Though I've always wondered how they'd even get Wiccan and Hulkling back on a team given their new status quo. It's not very likely.
It might be minor but I'm still bummed the YA don't have their own rogues gallery. I guess it's just not in the cards for this team
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That's long overdue, honestly. Steph's had nothing to do since Batgirls was cancelled. Of course NYX is likely to be a teen team book too - there's rumours it's Kamala's new book, and the original book by that name introduced X-23.
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Since you brought it up, that's the road I'd like to see the Young Avengers take in the future. To more of a Titans spot of being young adults. Marvel can keep creating those new Champion variants with Spider-Boy, but at least let the Young Avengers age up a little. I want to see progress and more growing up themes with them if we ever got a volume 3.
That I agree with - there's some overlap in ages between the Young Avengers and Champions, but the main outliers are Cassie, who's a bit younger than the other YAs, and Amadeus, who's the oldest of the core Champions. In general, the YAs should now be about 20-22 years old, and thus adults, whereas apart from Amadeus, the Champions should be a few years younger, 16-18. The New Champions (who based on Web of Spider-Man seem to have been renamed The Assembly) are presumably around the same age as Kamala's group. The actual equivalent in Marvel to Nightwing's Titans team is the New Warriors, who ought to be in their mid 20s (so a few years older than the Young Avengers).
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Definitely want to see the YA grown up. They can still be young heroes, in their early 20s, while some of the old guard have been in their 30s and 40s in some cases, for many decades. (Reed and Strange and Stark have all been 30 to 40+ since their inception!)
Plus keeping them as post-teens means that Disney can't justify continuing to cop out and avoid controversy by only presenting their gay characters as pre-sexual children.
I take even yearly mini-series at this point. There was a time when Marvel was actually bothering to keep the team alive even if they didn't have an ongoing. That whole period between 2006 and 2010 in which Allan Heinberg took a break was filled with YA minis (Civil War, Secret Invasion, Dark Reign, Siege, YA Presents). You could tell Marvel didn't want them to fall into oblivion. I'd give everything to have THAT back, but you're probably right that right now it seems the only thing that's gonna move the team forward is synergy. I think editorial just fell out of love with the team, unfortunately.