I am a sucker for any comic that is dealing with teenage angst, to the point I will follow any New X-Men book (including the X-23 things that are widely panned). There is a point though where these can become tedious.
In this post Siege landscape where we get seven different Avengers books, there was one I was truly excited for, the return of the Young Avengers. It took longer to launch than they others, but the day it was released it was the first thing i picked up.
The first book was good, but how often is a first issue anything like this more than good? the second came out two months later the second came out and upon finishing something happened in my mind and these two issues became clear, and I figured out what this story is about.
The new Young Avengers book is about how adults are mean.
This only occurred to me as i finished the final pages and Wolverine says to the effect* "If they find the Scarlet Witch I will kill her, and if they stop me I will kill them too." This rang as off to me. Now, I know just as well as everyone else that Wolverine is 'the best at was he does' and his life, just as much as everyone else in the MU, was nearly destroyed by the Scarlet Witch, but the cold blooded killing of some one has been a friend and ally of his for more years than I count seems uncharacteristic, especially just the way he would say it this way, like he is leading the Avengers now. Further, killing children seems even stranger.
This made me go back and look at the original stories from the original run and it hit me that maybe Alan Heinberg hates adults. This seems a reasonable considering he is writing a teen drama and that has always been a main plot in any teen drama (including the greatest teen drama comic of all time, The Runaways, including the Vaughn run who I know dosen't hate adults considering he writes them with same care as his teen characters) which I understand as some who appreciates the genre, but it just comes off as more heavy handed in this book. Seeing the Adult Avengers treating them like children, when after the original series they had been accepted into the fold after proving themselves, wrings as false. and this makes me second guess this series and makes me kind of want to give it up, but we will see where it goes.
*editors note: I don't have these with me at the moment as I am actually sitting in class
