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Happy Pride Month to all of our followers! We are SO excited to celebrate this month with y'all!
Let’s talk about Teddy’s PRONOUNS!!!
It’s not technically canon, we strongly feel that Teddy, a Kree/Skrull (and a literal shapeshifter), is genderfluid.
In the conceptual notes for Young Avengers, Teddy was a shapeshifter who went out superheroing as a man and then lived day-to-day life as a woman. Heinberg’s idea was for Teddy to be “neither male nor female.” (Something we thought of before we found out about this concept. Minds. Blown.)
As they dig deeper into their heritage and learn more about who they are, it’s easy to imagine Teddy feeling a need to express the literal changeable nature of his body and gender identity. (It’s also easy to imagine Billy being extremely supportive!)
So from here on out, our version of Teddy is he/they. ❤️ Stay tuned for more Pride content coming this month!
Teddy was leaving Excelsior ALL over the apartment. What are you supposed to do with a mystical King of Space sword when you’re not battling for the galaxy?
Duh nuh nuh nuh nuuuuuuuh nuhNUH! X-Men: The Animated Series was a big part of our introduction to the Marvel Universe. This comic is a little reality warping to gush about an early influence and one of the best Saturday morning cartoons of all time!
It’s also a (belated) thank you. Months ago we reached out to creators of the series asking if they had any more of their “Previously On X-Men” hats available for purchase. Lucky for us they had a few in stock and on sale! Cue: gratuitous creator photo.
Hey Tumblr!!
If you’re interested in getting one of these hats for your very own, you can email the Lewalds at [email protected]! (They also just released a gorgeous new book X-Men: The Art and Making of the Animated Series. Highly recommended!)
Billy and Teddy show up to the Hellfire Gala serving these hot and spicy Space Husband Looks…what do you do?
In all honesty, one of our amazing followers asked us after last week’s comic: what would we dress Billy and Teddy in for the Hellfire Gala? We thought it’d be fun to give our take!
Here, we see Billy, Wiccan, YOUR Demiurge, dressed in an actual nebula and glowing like a star. We were inspired by the redesign of Wiccan’s costume in Style vs Substance, where the suit has a moving, living nebula in it, but just exploded it out to be something that would turn every head in the room. This costume is brought to you 100% by Billy’s infinite power; not everyone could keep a nebula hovering perfectly around their body at all times. But if you could do it, why the heck wouldn’t you?
Teddy is looking regal and hot in a McQueen SS’10 inspired outfit that has him serving Montero In Space vibes. If Colossus and Gambit are showing up abs out, then Teddy has to show what he’s got, too! We loved the idea of his piece tying in with Billy’s by using star/glitter fabric for the bulk of the pieces, with beautiful gold accents to go with it (mostly because gold on his green skin is just chef’s kiss). Along with gold eyeliner and beautiful navy lipstick, we thought adding make-up that nods to his skrull ancestry was also a fun addition to the piece. Oh, and maybe a couple more piercings than usual, just for some added sparkle… ;)
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Did y'all hear that Empyre, Lords of Empyre: Emperor Hulkling, and Empyre: Aftermath Avengers won Outstanding Comic Book at the @glaad Media Awards?
We thought it would be fun for Billy and Teddy have their place at the podium (and a queer fashion MOMENT). ️
To@marvel,@jimcheungart,#AllanHeinberg,@meakoopa,@dan.slott,@zdarsky,@valerio_schiti,@martegraciacolor@joecaramagna,Al Ewing,Manuel Garcia, Cam Smith, Tríona Farrell,Ariana Maher,Travis J. Lanham and everyone involved in Billy and Teddy’s creation and journey: thank you.
Thank you for creating this kind of representation–for seeing us.
Anyone else pre-mourning the end of Pose?
You know when you see something online and you just CAN’T let it go? Yeah. YEAH!
This week’s comic was inspired by tweets by the incredible @brettwhite.
Full disclosure: we had a discussion about the most thirst-inducing poses while making this comic.
Everyone:
Absolutely everyone:
Us: SO WE’RE CHANGING OUR NAME!
We’re excited to say that from here on out, we’re going to be known as Wickling Comics!
Instagram:@wicklingcomics
Twitter: @wicklingcomics
Idiot Boyfriends will always have a special place in our hearts. That place looks a lot like somewhere in Latveria where Billy makes bad decisions and Teddy is threatening to maim Pietro.
Still, we’ve decided an ship name that’s an inside joke based on a couple of comic panels might not best exactly clear for people trying to find us.
Plus they’re married now so it doesn’t even really work anymore.
ANYWAY. That’s it for now.
Thanks for following along! We can’t wait to bring you more home-brewed Wickling content.
Your #IdiotBoyfriends,
- Baz & RJ
*W.A.S.P = White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
We’ve been watching WandaVision with the same rabid attention as many other Young Avengers fans on the internet. From the second there was a hint of the twins, we were plugged in. Ready for it.
We’ve been talking about making a comic playing with the idea of the show pretty much from episode one.
At the same time, just like many others, we’ve carried the disappointment at the whitewashing of Wanda’s character from her intro in the MCU. Wanda is Jewish. She is Romani. That’s something we want to honour in our comics as much as we can.
Types of Love feat. the Young Avengers
With a little inspo from Russell Dauterman’s Wiccan and Hulkling variant cover.
Types of Love feat. the Young Avengers
With a little inspo from Russell Dauterman’s Wiccan and Hulkling variant cover.
You might think being a shapeshifter means Teddy never has bad hair days… and you’d be mostly right.
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There’s only one way to bribe Tommy into playing a tabletop RPG.
Happy 2021.
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?
Follow us on Instagram: @idiotboyfriends
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O Teddy tree
O Teddy tree!
How Hulkling are thy branches?
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!
Mama knows best. Especially when mama ALSO has the ability to warp reality.
P.S. Who else hasn’t recovered from all of the MCU drops yesterday? ‘Cause between Wandavision and Secret Invasion we. Are. SWEATING.
BABE PART I
PART II
PART III
PART IV
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i care for them so much…
dont reblog this is a wip
billy & teddy halloween
ft teddy being flustered over billy’s costume:
wiccan & hulkling studies
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
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.
Billy and Teddy at the alliance’s forefront, defending their people in the new Fantastic Four #42 (2022) comic!!!
(The city‘s name is such a sweet nod and definitely something I can see Teddy doing)
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.
‘Miles Morales, Moon Girl, and more star in ‘Free Comic Book Day 2022: Marvel’s Voices’ #1! Pick up your copy on May 7’
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!
Not me having ‘Agatha All Along’ as my most played song this year, just to find out in Hulkling & Wiccan: Infinity that she’s a homophobic and racist hag!
(For legal reasons this is a joke)
