New Talk to The Hat Column
Tom Brevoort answered some questions about the Young Avengers.
Spoilers for Avengers: the Children's Crusade.
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Is there anything that jumps to mind that says "This is where we launched it right" or anything where you feel you really missed the window for a book somehow?
[...] I could argue that we missed a window on a "Young Avengers" ongoing series. We held the line for Allan [Heinberg] and Jim [Cheung] to come back and tell their story, and along the way we did a lot of limited series with the characters. We tossed around ideas for an ongoing and talked to some creators, but it never coalesced or seemed right. Maybe we would have been better off launching a "Young Avengers" series or continuing the one we had rather than holding off. That's all Monday morning quarterbacking to some degree, and I hold to the reason we waited: the reason people bought that comic was Allan and Jim. It wasn't as simple as putting another team on that property.
[...] "We should have stopped 'Young Avengers' and continued 'Runaways.'" [Laughs] There's absolutely no way of knowing because it's all theoretical and abstract. But, and I say this based on what we so well here, we're going to make it work-- it's just a matter of the right spark between the right editors and creators.
Well, our first fan question this week hits right on this idea as Skaddix asked, "I was wondering if the Young Avengers are going to get a regular ongoing after 'Children's Crusade' ends?"
Brevoort: Sorry, Skaddix, but you're going to have to wait and see. Who can say if there'll even be a Young Avengers by the time we get to the conclusion of "Crusade?" I will tell you that not all of the Young Avengers characters make it through intact, so there are definitely some changes waiting in the wings.
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He can be such a troll.
And here are some preview pencils from ACC #7:
Bonus Kate sketch!
Unrelated but pretty :-)
