Dark Reign: Young Avengers...
The Young Avengers is a wonderful group of superheroes - a new generation of superheroes with initiative and drive, who want to follow in the footsteps of their heroes, the Avengers. I love their comic - specifically, I love the Jim Cheung art. And it has Wiccan and Hulkling, the cutest young gay couple in comics.
This story has Mark Brooks art instead of Cheung's - a poor substitute, but serviceable. The story by Paul Cornell is not intense, but it's got its charms. A group of powerful superhero teens decide to be Young Avengers, and want to join the group. They are, unfortunately, not too bright, and morally vacuous - in the course of the story, one of them murders his mother. "I've shown my commitment," he says. "I've been made by losing a parent to crime." Their leader is a goofy artist with a crush on the Green Goblin. No accounting for tastes.
A panel I liked: the magical girl, Enchantress, shows interest in Wiccan.
Things get complicated when Norman Osborn and his Dark Avengers turn up. Daken appears in a few group shots, ugly and snarling - hey, he's playing Osborn's game to the hilt. He gets two brief but good moments: the first is when he tries to use his pheromonal powers on Hulkling, possibly thinking the bulked-up green kid is hot, possibly realizing he couldn't take him by strength alone. Well, it seems he can't take him by chemical guile, either.
And then, since the adult faux-Avengers couldn't defeat the kids, Osborn and his forces retreat, saying: "this never happened". Daken, unharmed, is half-carrying the wounded Bullseye. Daken/Bullseye shippers may bask in the moment.
The baddest dudes at Marvel, whipped by kids. Hah! I can only assume that Daken wasn't trying.