From Marvel Entertainment
Oct. 9, 2012
The Future of YOUNG AVENGERS Is Marvel NOW!
Superstars Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie Usher In A New Age Of Teen Heroes!
New York. NY—August 9, 2012— This October, a brand new team arrives on the scene to show what they are made of in Young Avengers #1, kicking off the all-new ongoing series care of the blockbuster creative team of writer Kieron Gillen and artists Jamie McKelvie, Mike Norton and Matt Wilson! As part of Marvel NOW!, Young Avengers joins a number of titles that will take the Marvel Universe in an exciting all-new direction, as the industry’s top creators join the top Super Heroes to deliver all-new ongoing series, great for new and lapsed readers alike!
From the critically acclaimed duo of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie comes a reinvention of the teen superhero comic for the 21st century, uniting Wiccan, Hulkling and Hawkeye with Loki, Marvel Boy and Miss America. We have seen how our heroes handle the hardships of the world, but now we can bear witness as these Young Avengers grapple with challenges of becoming a new brand of hero. Will they be up to the task? Will they be able to follow in the footsteps of the heroes before them? Will they want to? Join in and watch as these young heroes discover who they truly are and how they can save the world.
“The Young Avengers are the team of tomorrow and an important step in right direction for the Marvel Universe," said Axel Alonso, Editor In Chief, Marvel Entertainment. "This team's youth is going to make for some very interesting stories as they forge a unique place for themselves in a world populated by super-powered characters. And there's no substitute for hard work. You’ll be watching a team grow into one of the Marvel Universe's most powerful forces.”
Marvel NOW! is the culmination of Marvel ReEvolution, the groundbreaking new initiative to evolve the comic book experience through innovation. With Young Avengers, Marvel NOW! ensures fans will discover an entirely new perspective in the adventures of a brand new team.
“This is my chance to take a serious crack at reinventing the Marvel teen super hero for the 21st century,” said writer Kieron Gillen. “So I recruited my favorite collaborators in a Dirty-Dozen fashion, and set about the task. I couldn't be more excited if I was having adrenaline pumped into me intravenously. If the original Young Avengers was about being 16, this is about being 18. It's a small difference, but an important one.”
Each issue of Young Avengers features special augmented reality content available exclusive through the Marvel AR app – including cover recaps, behind the scenes features and more that add value to your reading experience at no additional cost.
“Not only does every book with the Marvel NOW! logo feature a new superstar creative team and blockbuster story, but they also come with all-new incentives for our retailer partners,” explained David Gabriel, Senior Vice-President of Sales, Marvel Entertainment.. “We want to make sure every comic shop nationwide is fully stocked to meet the high demand we’re already seeing for Marvel NOW! And want to make sure their voices are heard throughout this exciting time. Stay tuned for more news on how Marvel will be working directly with retailers to make sure our programs address their needs.”
An all-new direction! All-new threats! All-new team! This is Young Avengers NOW!
This January, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie introduce the world to a new team in Young Avengers #1!
For more on Marvel NOW!, please visit now.marvel.com and join the conversation on Twitter using #MarvelNOW.
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I only have the first Young Avengers TPB so my knowledge of them is limited to their Handbook entries. Hulkling has a heroic legacy with PLENTY of drama. So does Wiccan, I think. Will Hawkeye still be called Hawkeye?
Strange that it's back to Marvel Boy, not Justice. The contemporary Vance Astro has come a long way since the 80s but this seems like a big step backwards, almost (dare I say it?) of New Warriors proportions. Plus he now has a ladies' man reputation.
I have no idea who this new Miss America is.
And Loki, no doubt, will be....Loki, which is almost reason enough to buy the book.
I may try it!
I'm not sure this is going to make up for the cancellation of Avengers Academy but I'm certainly willing to give it a try. I've certainly enjoyed, sometimes even loved, previous Young Avengers stories.
Another factor that made them fresh was that Heinberg was a writer more used to serving a mainstream audience, so it wasn't all aimed at the CBR crowd.
The art was pretty good too. I didn't like how subsequent appearances of the team was limited to event tie-ins, and it lost its way there. If I'm gonna read YA again, I'll have to get my hands on the Crusade story sometime.
So the Morrison Marvel Boy is back in his old duds? What was all that flailing around with the Protector about? Why did Bendis put him in the Dark Avengers anyway, if he hadn't a clue what to do with him? Sheesh! It'll be interesting to see what Gillen does with the character, at least.
I feel certain you'll get a chance to buy a collected TPB of The Children's Crusade before too long.
Yeah, I'm excited about Loki. That's a wild twist.
I'm not sure that's Vance Astro as Marvel Boy, though -- it looks more like the Grant Morrison Marvel Boy, who went by "The Protector" in Avengers until recently. Also, where is Wiccan's brother, the speedster? An unsupervised adolescent super-speedster could get into a lot of trouble pretty fast!
As to Hawkeye, Clint Barton told this Hawkeye that she could keep using the name if she wanted in the recent Young Avengers maxi-series, whose name I have forgotten.
Am I embarassed!!! I looked at the cover and thought Wiccan was Vance Astro!! (Darn headbands!) I mistook the power waves around him for some symbolic homage to Captain America's shield (see Guardians of the Galaxy 1990's series).
No, that's definitely Marvel Boy/the Protector. Which is still odd because the Avengers aren't supposed to trust him anymore as he was still an agent of the Kree Empire...unless he gains so much popularity that he usurps Carol Danvers as the new, new, new, new (?) Captain Marvel! :-)
They seem to have dropped the Morrison idea for Marvel Boy's powers, that he stole them from the most resilient thing on earth: a cockroach. Fast, strong, omniverous, adaptable to all climates and virtually unkillable -- pretty cool powers, if you don't think about them too closely.
I must reread that series sometime. Someone was going to cover it in our Morrison reviews, but must have found something better to do with their time...
That was me at one point, but you told me to hold off since there was so much else being discussed and upcoming, so I did.
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