The Young Avengers in “All My Exes in the Nexus”

Written by ALYSSA WONG

Art by STEPHEN BYRNE

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.

Taken from:https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/marvels-voices-pride-1-2022-complete-guide?linkId=164855014

Your Complete Guide to 'Marvel’s Voices: Pride’ #1

Marvel Voices Pride #1 coming out this June!

This looks like the Young Avengers officially come together again in a few months!

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.

https://youtu.be/hD1mU_-jgc0

Teddy and Billy Kaplan-Altman enter the Contest of Champions as new playable characters!

To see them come to life like this makes me really emotional!

Let‘s talk about Wiccan & Hulkling: Infinity #2:

As you all know, I am very unhappy with the direction they‘ve gone with for Billy‘s and Teddy‘s first solo run.

But let‘s say I was on board with it, I still can’t help but feel very disappointed. There is so much potential wasted here. The premise was rocky at best, but even if we accepted that they are somewhat dissatisfied with their relationship, they do nothing to flash out that concept.

The potential lovers are just low-effort. The space pirate‘s name is literally ‘Goebig.’ If you split Billy and Teddy, at least make it meaningful. The initial concept of Billy missing their old life is not even explored at all! They don’t care about the new people because they are still hung up on each other. At least let Billy meet his family and friends so we can see why he is so hung up on his life in New York in the first place! Only then we can understand how and why he ultimately makes the decision to return to Teddy. Same with Teddy: If you show his dream coming true, you have to show why it‘s ultimately not his wish. He has to see that even though he and his partner care for the empire 24/7, the empire will still struggle and it‘s okay to take time for Billy and him.

Moreover, I have a huge problem with the fact that Teddy has been kissed the second time without being able to freely decide to do it. He had no choice with David and cannot judge the situation with ‘Goebig’. Teddy has been unnecessarily been pressed into two pseudo-cheating plotlines that do not add to the plots in any way.

I like their new outfits though. Billy looks great in his armor. And I like the name Eidolon. If my rusty old Greek does not deceive me it means something like Illusion, which I actually dig.

Long overdue wickling post <3