Children's Crusade #4: THE BIG ONE

[blackruzsa]

Assuming you are as big a fan as I am, you also screamed something both guttural and squeaky from the deep recesses of your throat and then promptly began sobbing and crying for joy while making sounds reminiscent of the Muppets' Beaker.

Or maybe it's just me.

The last page of Avengers: The Children's Crusade #4. HUGE HUGE HUGE SPOILERS. I'M WARNING YOU NOW, IT'S REALLY BIG.

But first, something from Avengers #5, posted a few months ago. Look at the entry after "Return of the King"




Ironlad (re)turns.

I am not getting my hopes up too much for now, because of the way it was written, but let us remove all doubts for a moment and simply bask in the joy of getting our favorite teen team leader back.



Heinberg, if you fake out now, I will rip something painful.

WTF KIND OF ENDING IS THIS? It makes me happy, and yet also enraged.

And the rest of the issue seemed a bit short. My sad face is imminent.

Comments

[windiebird.livejournal.com]

Seriously! The wait for this book is killer!

[blackruzsa]

.... go over to the young avengers LJ right now.
Like, right now.
Right now.
And check the latest journal entry.
Right now.

It's the first comic that I've enjoyed every issue for a long, long, time

[jazzypom]

It's been really good. I held off on spoilers until I could read it this morning. WTF Billy and his power status? WTF?

Hey, Ironlad, how you doing? Have you met Kate and Tommy? No? Here they be. But still, I'm pretty interest to see what the dynamic will be now that Nate's back. If I remember correctly, Kate met him, but Tommy didn't. Also, with Nate being back, does Vision feel free to pursue Wanda like woah? Or...

Re: It's the first comic that I've enjoyed every issue for a long, long, time

[shadowpsykie]

Also, with Nate being back, does Vision feel free to pursue Wanda like woah? Or...

NO Jonas and Cassie!

Re: It's the first comic that I've enjoyed every issue for a long, long, time

[blackruzsa]

I'm assuming it's temporary XD The Billy powers thing, not the Ironlad thing (please please god don't make him go away D:)

[icon_uk]

I thought you meant that we might have seen Teddy and Billy finally being allowed to kiss.... Iron Lad... not so much.

[shadowpsykie]

didn't thye kiss in like... issue one? i could be wrong....

[blackruzsa]

I think I can forgive the lack of kiss because NAAAAATE, HE'S BAAAACK D: The cutest future villain teen in the world, forcerealz (with Victor Mancha as a close second)

[kirke_novak]

I've been actually complaining on my Twitter we hadn't gotten any scans from that book yet but guh, worth the wait! It's the only comic book these days I eagerly await every month (and a half)

[shadowpsykie]

OMG OMG LOVE YOUR ICON!

im a HUGE Wicked fan:D

[auggie18]

Serious. Icon. Love.

[blackruzsa]

Go over to the Young Avengers comm on LJ. I'm not sure if it's still up but there should be a locked post there you can check out.

[darkblade]

Meanwhile in the DC Universe, Rip Hunter is wondering who keeps copying his blackboard.

[btravage]

What is Rip Hunter doing in the Marvel Universe.

[karthzon.livejournal.com]

THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS! *is shocked*

Also, is it now Marvel's turn to start Ripping off DC (pun intended)? I thought the ball was still in DC's court.

[shadowpsykie]

THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS! *is shocked*

sarcasm? i can't tell online.... lol

[darkknightjrk]

Technically, there are five, but still--anyway, this was from several months ago, and yeah, it's basically hinting at everything that they're going to do for the next year or two.

[bluefall]

You know, it's really fun to see the YA in action again, and the plot has been really fast-paced and interesting, but I feel like Children's Crusade has the same problem that BG:Y1 has. That being... it's lovely to have a dumb jackass authority who's responding in the most idiotic possible way to rebel against and all, especially as a kid, but when you assign the role of dumb jackass authority who's responding in the most idiotic possible way to established, intelligent, white hat, friendly protagonists who the reader is supposed to actually like, and probably does like, in other titles... Well. You're not doing anyone any favors.

(Particularly since we've already seen the three primary agitators here deal with their Wanda issues to some degree in other titles and know where they should be with this.)

Really nice to see Wanda herself taking some initiative and being intelligent and heroic, though. As the powerless subject of a rescue mission, her portrayal could have been really gross and tiresome and instead Heinberg has her pretty much rescuing Billy.

[zyriex]

Ditto on Wanda not being the helpless damsel in distress being awesome!

[auggie18]

She's been such a great character throughout this series. She and Billy have such a great level of snark going together. Oooh, ooh, and EVERYTHING SHE WEARS LOOKS AMAZING.

[blackruzsa]

It's true. Besides the obvious--tackling the past and Billy's interactions with Teddy and the entering of favorite characters, the A:CC I've been seeing is kind of awkward.

Still good, although the impression I'm getting from Wolverine is that he's Hellverine, but that can't be right in terms of timelines.

[kenn_el]

Wanda pretty much rescued Pietro and Toad under similar circumstances way back when, so it's not new territory for her.

[victoriabloom]

I`ve been really happy with the portrayal of Wanda so far. I think Heinberg mentioned in some issue that he was aware of the difficulties in portraying Wanda and that it`s very easy to get into sticky territory because she`s the one they`re all looking for, but that he wanted to still give her as much agency as possible.

It really shows she Doom and Billy are arguing and Wanda says that she`s right there and can speak for herself.

[zyriex]

Favorite team leader? But-but-but, Kate

[blackruzsa]

KATE IS LIKE... THE UNSTATED TEAM LEADER. She's always making the right choices but no one actually calls her a team leader, which irks me because when Eli's team leader, he doesn't do as well in leading but they identify the rank to him anyway.

.... But Nate. I love Nate too much. Sorry, Kate!

[cypherfdp]

Wiccan sure likes saying names in logo form, doesn't he?

[blackruzsa]

It's the only superpower he has left.