GROUP RE-READ: Issue 1

[lilpocketninja]

Only a ... few hours ... late, right?

Anyway! Recollections, discussion, squee, sudden insights... anything at all about the first issue goes in this post.

Gifs work too.

Comments

[lilpocketninja]

-This issue is pretty light on the kids themselves, but it does always remind me how much I love Jessica Jones.
-The hug and fly started here! <3_<3 Still as gay as the first time I saw it.
-I still kinda wish we'd seen the X-Men respond more to Billy's existence pre-Children's Crusade.
-We really need more fic about Kate's sister. I find her interesting.
-The way Teddy and Eli interact in this issue makes me surprised more people weren't shipping them at first.
-Kate's dorky sense of humor is my favorite.
-It's interesting to compare how we saw the team then (a lot of tension between the first four) vs how it seems now that we've seen them goofing off and being dorks at one another in CC:YA. It wasn't all annoyance and yelling!

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[clayin]

Between "Patriot told me to!" "I did not! I suggested it.", "Chainsaw! Chainsaw! Chainsaw!" "I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!", and Eli being the one who gets to ride Teddy around like a big green pony, there really ought to be more Teddy-and-Eli-are-bestest-buddies fic.

[duct_tape_fairy]

-I still kinda wish we'd seen the X-Men respond more to Billy's existence pre-Children's Crusade.

See I want to know why they didn't look for Tommy. I can buy that Billy's powers don't register as a mutation but Tommy's should have shown up when the X-Men were trying to get all the surviving mutants together in San Francisco. The obvious answer of course, is that none of the X-Men authors felt like opening that particular can of crossover worms.

Still, it's fun to speculate the "real" reason. I favor Tommy annoying Emma incessantly when she extended the telepathic invite.

[alessandriana]

See, this is what has always made me wonder if they really are mutants, or if the powers are just something their, er, past-live souls brought with them to the new (non-X-gene) bodies. It's the only thing that makes sense to me, anyways.

[fullmetal_cute]

True story: Before they revealed more about Our Heroes, MY bet was that Billy was in some way connected to Loki. This was largely influenced by having recently read the story arc in Spider-Man where Spidey helps Loki rescue a mortal daughter of his from being possessed by an evil sorceress.

Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm a weirdo.

[duct_tape_fairy]

Well that turned out to be Junior Enchantress's deal so you were part right?

[fullmetal_cute]

Yeah, but she came about under the pen of another, so she doesn't really count.

[luminum]

Girl, please. What is with this "official" nonsense?

[duct_tape_fairy]

I came to the Young Avengers way late and backwards, through the Runaways/YA Civil War crossover so the first few issues always feel a little weird knowing the whole team isn't there yet.

I don't think I'd noticed before that Nates's armor tech completely waltzes past Iron Man's ever so fancy security measures. So advanced even Iron Man has trouble with it - until the boys want to fire up the Danger Room and play.

Also Hulking's intro is possibly one of my favorite things in the YAverse. Because saving people from fire is no reason to forget your manners.

[michiru42]

*giggle* And he must have been REALLY polite for a girl who thinks being told to move when she's standing in the way of rescue efforts constitutes rudeness to notice his manners.

[duct_tape_fairy]

It's probably one of his tertiery powers, like Billy-wrangling.

Jess Jones and Cat Farrell

[jazzypom]

I liked the fact that Cat really wanted to be Jessica Jones when she grew up. LOL. Sympathies to Steve for his feelings towards the Young Avengers and the spectre of Bucky colouring said feelings.

Re: Jess Jones and Cat Farrell

[michiru42]

Steve was great through the whole thing. Trying to handle Eli's grandmother with dignity, being afraid of the kids' parents ("Can you imagine what their parents must be like?"), trying to boss the YA around and getting told off by Kate and handling it with dignity...he came across as both fallable (re: human) and heroic, a real character. Despite trying to shut the kids down, I never got mad at him; his point was too understandable.

Yeah, definitely

[jazzypom]

Steve was struggling, considering that the Avengers got disassembled on his watch, and that business with Bucky and Wanda. I mean, Steve was going through a lot then, his heart was in the right place re: his attitude towards YA. But we're getting ahead of ourselves, I think.

I also liked Eli's innate bossiness, and the fact that they all seemed to be such good kids. A bit eager (bordering on indignant in terms of Eli), but kids, eh?

Re: Jess Jones and Cat Farrell

[duct_tape_fairy]

Yeah I always had a lot of sympathy for Steve, I thought he was always pretty good with the kids, especially given that what happened to Bucky is probably one of his primary nightmares.

[michiru42]

Best intro scene ever: the boys busting in on Kate's sister's wedding. It was adorable ("Patriot told me to!") AND moved the story forwards (meeting Kate, alerting others to their presence) AND told us all about the characters of the four boys. It's such amazing writing, and I could read it a dozen times and still find it wonderful. It's probably my favorite scene in the whole series, which is saying a lot since I love the whole thing.

Oh yeah, this!

[jazzypom]

I liked the fact that the story moved fairly quickly - none of this decompression nonsense - and yet it didn't detract from the emotions which were really going through the issues. Cassie wanting to be her dad, and crying when Mr Stark told her no, and - Cassie and Kate who just seemed to like each other on the spot. D'aww.

[duct_tape_fairy]

It's such a short scene but it's establishing everybody's character all over the place, Kate's badassery, Billy and Teddy's cuddly dynamic, Eli's willingness to argue with anyone, anytime and Nate desperately trying to do things by the book.