Young Avengers: Sidekicks, Allan Heinberg, Jim Cheung
Originally reviewed 25th August, 2013
This series promises to be a lot of fun. You don’t need to know a lot about the main Marvel canon to understand this one: it’s mostly new characters, with some cameos from classics like Tony Stark and Steve Rogers (being very much ‘Superhusbands’: I mean, really, they swoop in with iron Man holding Steve by the waist, it’s practically Superman and Lois Lane). I liked the emotions flying around here: they’re teenagers dealing with superpowers, not superheroes who happen to be teenagers. They mess up and fight and they need to get to school in the morning.
I actually forgot about the gay couple in this series, but that’s one more reason to love it. You can talk all you like about the Cap/Iron Man subtext, but this is the real thing.
The adult Avengers’ roles here make sense, too. I like that they’re an obstacle to the Young Avengers that no one could call evil, in addition to the issue of super villains. I think having read some other Marvel comics would help here to understand just why the Avengers are no more, but a general knowledge is enough.
Rating: 5/5
This sounds like a fun read. I know a friend who would enjoy this.
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It’s a fun series, definitely! One of the first I really got into.
This sounds fun. I had no idea it even existed!
Oh, they’re a lot of fun. And Billy and Teddy are so sweet with each other, especially in the more recent run!
I see so many more bloggers reading and loving graphic novels, it’s making me really want to try them myself.
I got into them comparatively recently, and have ended up totally hooked. There’s some awesome series out there.
Mmm, this is tempting me to do a reread 😀
They are lovely…
It’s been such a long time since I’ve read a Young Avengers comic! I think the last time might have been around Civil War. Do they have a series and is it still around?
They don’t have a series right now, but Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie recently had one!