Randy’s Reviews – Young Avengers #2 by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

Young Avengers #2 Review by Randy Young

Young Avengers #2 Review

Young Avengers #2 Review

I loved this issue just as much as I loved the premier issue. Gillen focuses on Hulkling and Wiccan. Wiccan decided last issue to do something for Hulkling and it backfired big time. Their whole world instantly started crumbling around them. There is only one person who can save them. Enter Loki.

This story would not function properly without the vision that McKelvie gives it. The escape scene is positively amazing. He basically gives us a nine panel page and then encourages the characters to defy the concept. They break the rules of staying within the panels. It’s simple but smart and something you don’t see very often. While I have enjoyed his ability to portray characters and their feelings so well through their facial expressions, this particular storytelling overshadowed the facial expressions in this issue.

I was so captivated by McKelvie’s art I forgot to talk about Loki. Gillen obviously loves this character and probably wouldn’t do this book if he couldn’t have Loki in it. The little scenes like Loki’s love affair with bacon are hilarious. Loki is the man (boy) with the plan. He seems to understand what’s going on and has a good idea how to take care of things. Only, the end of this issue clearly shows that things are beyond what Loki had in mind.

Our team is in parts right now and has yet to fully form, but that doesn’t take away from the book. Gillen’s pacing gives this book a great rhythm (better than that in Iron Man if you ask me) and this creative team looks even stronger than the original. It is quite a feat when creators can make me care about and want to read teenage characters. This series didn’t garner the same amount of attention as other books but it will be one that people will be scrambling for later on as they find out about it.

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