I love huntress' redesign and dina's is growing on me. red hood's is barley any diffrent from his original new52 one tho... a bit more cleanly drawn with some added details but otherwise.. eh.
wow! first sighting of tommy shepherd since the start of this "all new all better blablah"– marvel universe! and in an issue I'm guaranteed to hate! how lovely!!!
considering all the people who use it as an insult to his character, both in the comics and outside them, I kinda liked that king had wanda call him that as an endearment. I mean, I get not liking his character, but it's a bit sad to constantly insult him by implying he's not even a person. :/
gotta say, I'm not too hype about these characters getting into adulthood so early? I mean, I know they've been around for about ten years now but... mm, guess I would have liked for them to be teen heroes for a while longer.
I do like the idea that billy identifies strongly with his jewish heritage, being that it's his ethnicity and all too, but might be agnostic otherwise. makes sense for him to maybe go into other beliefs in that case, and him learning to be wiccan with the help of his mother would be cool to see.
anyways; I've wonder if any writer is ever gonna follow up on that one time when vision meet billy. like, where does vision stand with his "soul" kids, considering how desperately he wants a family? seems stupid to just continuously ignore that big of a plot point, even though I understand that no writer currently wants to mess with the story king's got going on and his plans for the character. it just bother me is all.
It's less like they're getting into adulthood, and more like they're rushing into things; kids being kids who want to be adults, but at heart, are just kids denying the realities of their situation.
Honestly, I would like to see Vision interact with Billy, but given that a former Young Avenger was also Vision (albeit a brain-scrambled-self-identity-crisis-having version of him), I think it would just be a little redundant. Personally, I'd like to see Wonder Man become sort of a surrogate father to either Billy, or Tommy. Speaking of Tommy, we need to see more of him and Patriot. Hopefully, the two of them will make up the now missing half of the New Avengers.
yeah totally agree on the whole rushing-into-adulthood thing. it's cool that teddy and billy are committed to each other for the long run, but last I checked, they where both around seventeen and/or eighteen years old, and all this talk of marriage just feels kinda fast. not like people don't marry young and all, but I'd have loved for them to have more poignant character arcs and for writers to explore their relationship more before they forever cement them as an eternal duo, where one always comes with the other. it just feels like it's a bit soon for the young avengers to be done with being young avengers is all...
as for jonas, he was an entirely different character when you actually got down to it. him and the original vision don't share neither the same personality and, although jonas could access the former visions memories, they weren't his nor does the current vision remember anything related to jonas' life. basically, they're two different people, so I really wouldn't count that as some sort of resolution to the whole vision-is-the-twins-father-but-we-never-adress-it thing.
and although it certainly be cool for wonder man to get to know the twins, what with all the history there, I personally wouldn't be a fan at all of him becoming their surrogate father (I'm already eternally annoyed that certain writers continue to insist that him and vision are the same person, it feels insulting to both of them). I strongly agree with you on tommy and eli though. the fact that they're still missing from the MU is a travesty. :/
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