Listen, Teddy gets a lot of credit for being a handsome Space Hunk—for good reason.
BUT Billy doesn’t get enough credit for being a total babe. So here’s a comic about Teddy having the hots for his handsome magical nerd, ‘cause Billy deserves it.
We are BACK! Welcome to 2021, #Wickling fans. It’s going to be a big year!
Wandavision drops this month, King In Black: Wiccan and Hulkling comes out in March, the Young Avengers are sloooowly creeping into the MCU and we’re back at making comics!
First thing’s first: we reached a VERY special milestone over the holidays.
ONE! HUNDRED! FOLLOWERS! Thank you to everyone who has followed, liked, commented, and shared our work. We’re so happy to have you here!
What better way to celebrate the big than with a special guest star?
Wishing you and yours a safe and happy holiday, and a bright new year!
We’re taking a short break from making comics to fully lean into the holidays (AKA playing a lot of Hades and eating cookies for days). See you in 2021!
When we started the comic we were really keen on celebrating Billy’s Jewish roots—a Hanukkah comic was a MUST.
At first we thought about telling the story of Teddy’s first celebration with the Kaplans but the idea of Tommy as the outsider struck like lightning and we couldn’t let him go.
For context: this takes place in the pocket of time after Children’s Crusade when Billy [spoilers] gives up superhero life for awhile.
[id; a coloured full body art piece of scarlet witch and wiccan from marvel comics in hellfire gala formal wear. they are both depicted with brown skin and dark brown hair and hold each others hands. wanda wears her russell dauterman outfit and billy wears a similar outfit with a body suit fading into the night sky, similar to wanda’s hair. segments of the suit are in green and he has a golden belt around his waist. he wears a large red cloak over it which is trimmed with gold. both of them are performing their signature blue and red magic. both of them have headpieces on. end id/]
Nebula, World Fantasy, and Locus-award winner Alyssa Wong and fan-favorite artist Stephen Byrne reunite the Young Avengers in a story guaranteed to please fans new and old! Byrne will also depict the team in one of the issue’s variant covers.
“YOUNG AVENGERS is one of my cornerstone comics: fun, romantic, hilarious, ambitious, queer, and utterly buck wild. ‘All My Exes In the Nexus’ is a love letter to the queer chaos, camaraderie, and joy that the Young Avengers embody. (And it’s a Loki story, because of course it is),” Wong teased.
“I couldn’t be more excited to work on the Young Avengers story for MARVEL’S VOICES: PRIDE. The Gillen/McKelvie run was one of my earliest encounters with queer representation in comics and it is an exciting honor to be drawing them now,” Byrne added.
I won‘t lie, after the infinity comic, seeing Teddy unhappy like this in combination with a story called “All my exes in the nexus” makes me very nervous!
Nebula, World Fantasy, and Locus-award winner Alyssa Wong and fan-favorite artist Stephen Byrne reunite the Young Avengers in a story guaranteed to please fans new and old! Byrne will also depict the team in one of the issue’s variant covers.
“YOUNG AVENGERS is one of my cornerstone comics: fun, romantic, hilarious, ambitious, queer, and utterly buck wild. ‘All My Exes In the Nexus’ is a love letter to the queer chaos, camaraderie, and joy that the Young Avengers embody. (And it’s a Loki story, because of course it is),” Wong teased.
“I couldn’t be more excited to work on the Young Avengers story for MARVEL’S VOICES: PRIDE. The Gillen/McKelvie run was one of my earliest encounters with queer representation in comics and it is an exciting honor to be drawing them now,” Byrne added.
I’m not even tagging this but boy…. how quickly fandom forgets
Yeah and how willing Billy was able to do it, he didn’t even hesitate and actively tried I believe twice (?) (Don’t quote me on the number)
Yup! it was twice.
And I just can’t with all these posts going on about how they can’t wait to see A Loki in Young Avengers, and I’m just like “Did we read the same comic?”
Which is made even worse by people thinking Billy and Loki would have made a better couple.
Loki actively tried to bring Billy to the edge of insanity. He made him doubt the most meaningful connection in his life (his relationship with Teddy), the control over his powers and wanted him to kill himself.
Conceptually, this is a good story and I quite like the idea of Loki being as devious as he is, but Billy has been through so much already. I don’t want anything similar in Young Avengers. It would be nice to give him a break. Especially after his relationship to Teddy was heavily weakened in the Infinity comic imo.
IF YOU THINK TEDDY (KAPLAN-)ALTMAN IS BI, GET OFF MY PAGE AND UNFOLLOW ME!
Some characters, even ones you might consider attractive, are gay. Stop changing them! Teddy and Billy are gay, just as much as Tommy and David are bi, or how America is lesbian. I‘m tired of works and discourses where people try to actively change/fight characters‘ sexual identities.
This is still homophobia. These are minority characters that mean the world to people around the world belonging to that minority. Invalidating a minority character is invalidating the minority in real life. TEDDY AND BILLY ARE GAY.
This comic officially needs a new title. How do you forget to include Magneto in a comic called TRIAL OF MAGNETO! He legit appears in like two panels.
Why the hell does Williams think that Billy and Tommy spent their “Entire lives” defending Wanda. They didn’t even know she was their mother for most of their life. They’re like in their twenties in comic book world. They didn’t even know shew was their mom until they were sixteen. And didn’t meet her (For Tommy) until Children’s Crusade. Or met her briefly (Billy).
IF this ends up being that future Wanda killed past Wanda to change her destiny or what not, I am going to be so pissed, because that’s going to be the world’s lamest ending.
So this whole thing is the three Wanda’s. Past Present and Future. Oh wow. That’s so deep and clever.
THis entire comic is a wasted opportunity.
AND WHY THE HELL WERE BILLY AND TOMMY YELLING AT WANDA? It was completely unnecessary, especially when she hasn’t had time to process the info dump she got from the Telepaths with no common sense.
What really set me off isn’t the stupid decision to give Billy red powers, the awful storytelling, or the way they try to shoehorn a connection between Wanda and the twins, but how they screamed at here. It was brutal to see. You‘re telling ME the kids who saved and defended Wanda in the Children‘s Crusade would go and scream at her when she‘s literally having a breakdown and have this abuse be her motivation?
Tommy would never. But Billy???? no possible way would Billy, the man who constantly doubts himself, who believes in everyone, who knows how bad your mental health can get, who knows how tricky powers are, ever, EVER scream at anyone, especially not his spiritual mom. Even after he realized what Loki was planning, he still treated him with respect and treated him as a friend.
WHEN YOU WRITE A FREAKING COMIC READ A FEW FREAKING COMICS BEFOREHAND! IT‘S THE SAME WITH THE INFINITY COMIC. YOU ARE WRITING ESTABLISHED CHARACTERS. YOU GET PAID TO DO THAT! YOU CANNOT JUST CHANGE THEM HOW YOU SEE FIT. IT‘S YOUR FREAKING JOB!
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