VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
Written by PAUL CORNELL
Pencils and Cover by MARK BROOKS

The Melter; The Executioner; The Enchantress; Egghead; Big Zero and Coat of Arms: they call themselves the Young Avengers, teenage rebels, on the run from the authorities, hated and feared by a world they've sworn to protect. Their interests include interspecies romance, modern art and bloody murder. Everything is permitted, and so are they. Until they meet the original Young Avengers. And then their grey areas will come home to roost. 32 PGS.

Date Available: 05/13/2009

BONUS REVIEW by Stephen Banas


I would say just about everything in this first issue is everything that is wrong with Marvel right now and it follows the formula to a T. The book starts off in the middle of a fight, main characters win but something goes off unto the liking of the leader, they do something pedestrian and public even though every powered person in the entire Marvel Universe is either part of H.A.M.M.E.R. or on the run from them, authorities show up and they have to escape to their secret hideout where the team argues and everyone sulks away angry. It’s stupid, it’s boring and I could not care less about a bunch of cookie-cutter alternative tweens full of angst. Let me know when everyone isn’t all broody and whiney. Then I’ll be interested again. However, this gets two grahams because Enchantress was in a nightgown for two pages.

I give it 2 out of 10 Grahams