But Hulkling cant help himself: helping others is part of who he is. For Wiccan that means keeping a low profile to avoid scaring the horses or at least alerting the neighbours. Wiccans adoptive parents are letting them both lodge under their roof, if not quite in the same bed. Hulking (half-Kree, half-Skrull shapeshifter) and Wiccan (the son of the Scarlet Witch), are in love. The magic of teenage romance and, well, magic itself. I do mean Kate Bishop and Kree kid Noh-Varr but also Gillen and McKelvie, the creators of PHONOGRAM: RUE BRITANNIA and PHONOGRAM: THE SINGLES CLUB in which music is magic, and magic is what we have here. Haha! Cue blistering NEXTWAVE flourish: a double-page spread crammed with kinetic panels of a spaceship dogfight and four big, bold statements. I lie in the strange bed and watch this beautiful alien boy dance to the music my parents love and think This is everything I always hoped for. In fact the book wakes up in bed, just like HAWKEYEs Kate Bishop whos listening to her new lover enthuse about close-harmony girl groups. Goddam, Noh-Varrs black pants as his hips grind and fingers snaps in synch to a sixties beat.

We dont want any explosions here.Īnd I fell in love with this series: sharp, chic and oh, so sexy! Contemporary too.

I dont have time to edit my three original reviews, but here they are, and Ive even managed to dig up all the interior art we used, which you click on and blow up. I wouldnt describe much here as wicked, but it was absolutely divine from start to finish! Creative gestalt entity Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie (Phonogram, The Wicked +The Divine) bang their collective drum, reinventing the super-hero comic book in their own freakish image.Before there was THE WICKED + THE DIVING, there was YOUNG AVENGERS. They're 18 (give or take), they're ready to inherit the Earth - but first they must face the mother of all villains. Miss America will kick your &*^ to another dimension. Oh, and to fight the foes no adult super hero could understand! Heed the call, then - for now, the Young Avengers hang out! Hawkeye (not the Hawkguy) puts the super in hero. On that day, the Young Avengers were reborn - to listen to music, break Tumblr in half and kiss. The Young Avengers, once more with feels! And there came a day unlike any other, when Earth's mightiest teens found themselves united against a very uncommon threat.

Collects Young Avengers (2013) #1-15, Marvel Now! Point One (2012) #1 (Young Avengers story).

Young Avengers, Vol. 3 by Kieron Gillen