America, Teddy, and Billy on the cover of a Free Comic Book Day one shot in the Marvel Voices line, released for Free Comic Book Day 2022. This issue includes a new Moon Girl story alongside reprints of stories from past issues in the Marvel Voices line
Happy Free Comic Book Day y'all! Today, May 7th, 2022, you can stop by your local comic book shop and pick up a handful of free comic issues. For those of you who are new to the annual FCBD, you can check out information at the Free Comic Book Day website. The link I’m posting is specifically information about this issue of Marvel Voices, but feel free to browse the website for other info as well, like what issues are being offered and a map of local comic book shops:
A new Defenders mini by Al Ewing and Javier Rodriguez that features God of Stories Loki and America was announced on twitter. The first of 5 issues is scheduled to release in June
Ok now that the info is out of the way and presented in a calm way:
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
GOD OF STORIES LOKI MY BELOVED I NEVER THOUGHT I’D GET TO SEE YOU AGAIN ❤❤❤❤
AMERICA!!!!!!!
LOKI!!!!!
AMERICA AND LOKI INTERACTING AGAIN!!!!!
WRITTEN BY AL EWING!!!!!!!!!!!! EWING IS WRITING GODDESS OF STORIES LOKI AND AMERICA AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TOGETHER!!! THIS COMIC IS EVERYTHING I’VE WANTED MOST OUT OF MARVEL FOR YEARS
There’s been lots of talk over the last few years about who’s definitely not a Young Avenger, but team line ups always change and I’m curious, which characters would y'all like to see join the team if and when we get a v3? (To be crystal clear, I’m talking specifically comic characters, NOT mcu)
Here’s some of the characters I’d like to see and some reasons why
Ramona and Johnny Watts
These two are the most obvious choices for new YA members. They’re dating America and Kate respectively, and both have superpowers, so it’d be odd if they weren’t there. Them joining a new team would also help them become more well known established characters and reduce their chances of getting forgotten in comic book limbo, and overall I think they’d mesh well with everyone else.
(This post has been sitting in my drafts since before Kate’s mini released. I hate the spoilers I’ve heard so I will be electing to ignore their existence)
Laura (+Gabby) Kinney I loved their team up with Kate and I want more of them interacting. There’s also no way in hell Laura isn’t queer, canon just hasn’t realized it yet. Young Avengers is Marvel’s queerest title/property/group, and if being associated with them can’t get her out of the closet, then nothing can. It’s been strongly implied that Gabby’s a lesbian and like Laura a Young Avengers series might be enough for Marvel to let her out of the closest, but due to her age it’d be weird for Gabby to be there without Laura. I also think both of their personalities would mesh better with the rest of the team if it’s both of them as a unit instead of just one of them.
(I think Laura also knows David? I’ve never read X-Men so idk for sure if that’s true, but at the very least she probably knows of him because of Krakoa and Daken. Either way, I think there’s enough canon connections to current YA members to explain how she could get involved in whatever the plot of v3 might be)
Viv Vision Yes she’s a Champion and younger than them. But I think as long as it’s only one younger character who has the vibe of like, a younger sibling hanging out with their older sibling and their cool friends then it can work. And I desperately want more of Viv interacting with her half-brothers. If v3 has ANY level of Maximoff/Vision family drama, I want Viv to be there too. A Young Avengers series could also give Viv more space to explore her sexuality. The Champions series have given her the space to come out which is great, but more exploration is always welcome.
Nadia Van Dyne Mostly the same reasons as Viv, except it makes even more sense for Nadia to be actively seeking to build relationships with her new found (distant) family members. One of her major themes is that she grew up with no family and is now building her own found family, so I’d love more content of her bonding with Billy, Tommy, Teddy, and Cassie, and adding them and their extended circles of family and friends to her own ever growing circle.
And again, a Young Avengers series could finally give her the space to express her asexuality and aromantism on page since it’s still only Word of God canon. I want to hear her say “I’m aroace” in! canon!!! Give me my aspec rep Marvel!!!!!! Give it to me!!!!!!!!!!
I also want more acknowledgement of David as one of the smartest people in the universe, and I think giving him a canonical connection to G.I.R.L. has a lot of fun potential. He would be a perfect mentor figure slash friend for them to bounce ideas off of and work through problems with. I think it’d be fun if he got to collaborate with them in the background of some nebulous future event making the deus ex machina tech that saves the day like characters like Tony Stark and Reed Richards get to do today
Lauri-Ell Okay this is almost entirely because I’m in love with her and her biceps and her sweetheart personality and I want any excuse to see more of her. Billy and Teddy currently feel so tied to the Kree/Skrull Alliance and to space as a whole that if they’re main team members in v3 then I think there’s a good chance v3 will also deal with space stuff, and Lauri-Ell is one of the only alien characters I know of who I think could mesh well with the team. And I want to see her kiss a woman
Xavin It’s been so long since Xavin and Teddy have interacted, and I think it’d be cool to see what their dynamic is like now that Teddy is the emperor of the Kree/Skrull Alliance. And Xavin needs to be rescued from comic book limbo, it’s been too long since the last time we saw them. It’s a shame to leave Kris Anka’s amazing redesign of them languishing in comic book limbo
(I also think, in the hands of a good author, Teddy and Xavin interacting has a lot of really cool potential for discussing how differently gender works in different cultures, and exploring how gender in Skrull societies might look and opperate differently from human societies. I don’t actually expect Marvel to do anything this cool in canon, but maybe them interacting in canon or planting a few seeds like this might prompt fan work to play with the concept)
I need some second opinions on this one. This is a random Wakandan civilian at a festival where everyone dresses up in costumes, from Marvel’s Voices: Legacy (2022) #1. Do you think this person is dressed up as Prodigy?
The X-Men suit and glasses aren’t much to go on, but I don’t know the mutant side of the marvel universe very well so I don’t know what other mutants would fit the bill here
I went to go check out the comic shop near my new apartment today, and I’ve been toying with the idea of buying the Empyre Omnibus so I checked to see if they had it. They did but, like, look at this thing
(Standard trade paperbacks for scale)
Jesus fucking Christ this is a chonky boy. I knew it’d be a massive book but this is just ridiculous
atshdfysishsg thanks for this brand new information marvel unlimited year in review
This was the only actual reading summary info in the email and I simultaneously feel unnecessarily called out, properly recognized and lauded, and succinctly described to a T
@dalenthas Yep, Henry Gyrich is revealed as the new head of Alpha Flight in SWORD #3. It’s also revealed that he’s working with Orchis, which seems to be an evil and anti-mutant organization or something? The characters talked about Orchis like it’s a well known threat but I haven’t read many X-men comics so I’ve literally never heard of them (or Gyrich) before this issue and idk exactly what their or his deal is
Mentions of Teddy in Web of Venom: Empyre’s End (2020) #1, a one shot that bridges the end of the Empyre event and the beginning of the King in Black event
Ok so I had no idea who tf Av-Rom was or what his history with Teddy was so I googled it and apparently he’s the Kree captain who was sent to get Teddy all the way back in Young Avengers v1, and he hasn’t shown up in literally anything else since then.
Damn Clay McLeod Chapman, mark me down as impressed. I’m pleasantly surprised any time a comic author appears to do the bare minimum of reading the wiki page for the primary character they’re using, but he really did a deep dive into Teddy’s past to pull out Av-Rom
Today at work, a coworker I just met segwayed our small talk from the topic of fencing to the new Hawkeye show and I began vibrating at a frequency that shatters eardrums like Kate? Kate Bishop? I get to talk about my girl Kate Bishop during small talk at work??!!!!!!
