Anole and Graymalkin.
Graymalkin's character design is so boring, I wonder if that is partially responsible for why he never really caught on.
ANOLE [Victor Borkowski]
BLING! [Roxanne ‘Roxy’ Washington]
CULLEN BLOODSTONE
DAKEN AKIHIRO
HULKLING [Theodore ‘Teddy’ Altman]
KARMA [Xi’an Coy Mahn]
KAROLINA DEAN
LOKI LAUFEYSON, God of Mischief
MOONDRAGON [Heather Douglas]
MYSTIQUE [Raven Darkholme]
NORTHSTAR [Jean-Paul Beaubier]
PRODIGY [David Alleyne]
RICTOR [Julio Esteban Ricter]
SHATTERSTAR [Gaveedra-7]
WICCAN [William ‘Billy’ Kaplan], the Demiurge
Anole and Graymalkin.
Graymalkin's character design is so boring, I wonder if that is partially responsible for why he never really caught on.
Huh, see, I just assumed it was just that Wanda's reality warping aged them up and dropped them into the Marvel Universe, changed the universe around them. Not time-travel, but more akin to how Miles Morales has been integrated into Earth-616. I suppose this might just be splitting hairs here, but... like, House of M isn't premised on Wanda using her powers to go back in time to change the past and produce a different premise. House of M, reality was just changed into something else. Yes, it had a different past, but that past was created at the same moment as the present.
So it isn't that they didn't have a past, or that they travel back in time, but that their past was created in inserted into reality.
Teddy could just look older than he actually is, as a hybrid of two alien races he could have matured through infancy faster than Franklin and as a shapeshifter settled on an age once Janice Altman enrolled him in school. He just might not remember being any younger than let's say 5 years old because that period of his life only lasted for a few months.
My issue with James Robinson's explanations for Billy and Tommy's ages is that it ignores the fact that Wanda was a straight up reality warper. At the height of her power she could have just created new bodies and lives for Billy and Tommy, placed them with their respective families, and given everyone retroactive memories and histories, and it would be as real as anything else
GotG Annual spoiwees uwu:
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AVRIL IS FUCKING ALIIIIIVE!!!! THANK YOU EWING-SAMA!! I hope this “no compromise, no mercy” team is written by Ewing so they can go rescue her
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2017 Nick Spencer: "And then Avril says, 'See you soon.' We'll get back to her later!"
Also 2017 Nick Spencer: "So yeah, I really think Rick's death is important to how the story is remembered, but I don't own the character."
Fans and H8ers of Spencer Cap: where's avril FORK
2018 Al Ewing: "Right then, let's bring the devil back. And Rick becomes A-b-o-m--"
2018 Nick Spencer appears from the darkness with a swarm of centipedes: "nOt sO fAsT eWiNg, yOu'Re bReAkInG tHe RuLeS oF tHe GaMe--"
Ewing: "I'll bring Avril back."
Spencipede: "Okay, we're even."
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
The problem with the idea of him shapeshifting to look older than his actual age is that depending on just how big the discrepancy is, it runs the risk of accidentally making Wiccan a child molester (even if the gap is just a few years--if Billy is age of consent and Teddy technically isn't). That is a potential mess best avoided.
I suspect that is what they truly meant the 'time travel/reincarnation' option -- just using different words. By warping reality she recreated them at an earlier point in time.
I mean it depends, he's got the mental maturity of a young adult male.
There are clones and genetically engineered characters all over Marvel who are chronologically younger than they are mentally and physically. It's just a conceit of the genre.
The Stepford Cuckoos, Nate Grey, Victor Mancha, etc
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What are the best Avril appearances? I remember when she first showed up, and I remember her spot in Secret Empire, but I can't remember much else with her...
I don't think the have any expectation of Heinberg coming back. The relatively small amount of Young Avengers content relates to a few factors. One part of it is that they've had comparatively few appearances. They aren't like, say, Spider-Man, where most Marvel writers could probably write him in their sleep.
Also, by around the time of Children's Crusade, the Young Avengers had become something of a prestige property. Marvel likes to be picky with the creative teams
I think ultimately its just a case of the Marvel Universe whole wibbly-wobbly sliding timescale. At the end of the day, the Kree-Skrull War happened as long ago as it needs to for Teddy's age.
The Week In Gay:
Guardians Of The Galaxy Annual #1 - there is an unexpected appearance by an LGBT hero, apparently setting up a future storyline to be picked up in the main book.
Age Of X-Man: Prisoner X #4 - Honey Badger is part of the cast
Black Cat #1 - This will be Felicia's first ongoing solo book. Fingers crossed that it will acknowledge her bisexuality.
War Of The Realms #5 - Angela has a cameo appearance
Journey Into Mystery #4 - Rawhide Kid has a cameo, wrapping up the loose threads from his (and the other Western hero ghosts) appearance last issue.
Deadpool #13 - a WOTR tie-in
I think that's it for actual LGBT content, but there are some honourable mentions...
Iron Man #12 - Gail Simone is filling in for Dan Slott on this WOTR tie-in arc. Tony's new droid mistakenly thinks that Tony and Rhodey are a couple, and remains convinced of it despite Tony's attempts to tell it otherwise.
And we've got a bunch of opposite gender body-swapping going on. Marvel Team-Up #3 concludes an arc where Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel swapped bodies, and Captain Marvel #6 kicks off a two-parter where Carol and Dr. Strange have swapped bodies.
And among the trade paperbacks released this week there was DAREDEVIL EPIC COLLECTION: "Purgatory & Paradise". This collection includes the arc with one of Marvel's first transgender characters, the villain known as Sir. Sir is not exactly a positive portrayal, since Sir was a woman who transformed her body into a masculine form because of an extreme hatred and disdain for anything feminine. Still, the character is noteworthy as one of the first cases of a character in a Marvel comic of someone intentionally changing their gender through surgical and pharmaceutical means, rather than a magic body change, like when Sasquatch became a woman.
Because you shouldn't throw a character away that has potential. She was cool but was too wrapped up in being a weapon in Spencer's run that she didn't get a chance to be anything else. also her coming back isn't stopping Wendell from being bi. also also more lesbians.