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scans_dailyJamie McKelvie posted some preview pages of Young Avengers #1 showing Kate and Noh-Varr (I shall dub them "Kano." And yes, I know that is the name of a villain in Mortal Kombat. That you could make that a portmanteau couple name is amusing to me.)
(Acknowledgement that Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways happened. Although Kate is only referencing by name the characters who are still on the team.)
(This same creative team gave us Phonogram. Can you tell?)
(Acknowledgement that Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways happened. Although Kate is only referencing by name the characters who are still on the team.)
(This same creative team gave us Phonogram. Can you tell?)
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Date: 2013-01-11 06:41 pm (UTC)SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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on SO MANY levels!!!!!!!
Noh-Varr
Kate Bishop of Earth.
KaNo!
No slut shaming (is this the correct term? are we allowed to use this term?)
Billy! Teddy!
Noh-Varr in black Boxer Briefs dancing!!!!
THIS creative team!!!!
Kid Loki!
I don't even care about inevitable heart Break that we are in for!
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Date: 2013-01-11 06:44 pm (UTC)I would be there faster than.... a very fast thing indeed.
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Date: 2013-01-11 07:07 pm (UTC)On the one hand, I like this.
On the other hand, I was pretty invested in kate/Eli, and I'm very, very sad that he is gone :(
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Date: 2013-01-11 07:32 pm (UTC)Also, yes, he IS a beautiful alien boy. XD
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Date: 2013-01-11 09:15 pm (UTC)Part of me says "I should be ashamed of such blatant fetishizing"...
Seriously though, this is a nice, simple representation of YA romance. Something that rapidly becomes deranged and bizarre in most media. We'll have to see how it goes.
Also: Noh-Varrr, be a gentleman! Get the Woman some Damn Coffee!
I have a similar problem...
Date: 2013-01-11 09:32 pm (UTC)Having him squee over MoTown seems a bit OOC. :)
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Date: 2013-01-11 09:46 pm (UTC)So excited I almost typed excrement by accident
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Date: 2013-01-11 10:56 pm (UTC)That’s Noh-Varr to you.
That’s Noh-Varr to anyone.
I had to start with Marvel Boy lust because of the news that Bowie was returning to the world stage today. He remains Jamie and my primary influence on the character’s visual and mood (specifically, in the Man Who Fell To Earth period, though there’s some Ziggy too). It’s not the first and won’t be the last. When a man has the chameleon aesthetic he works like that.
(The most successful previous one was our SIEGE%3A LOKI where Bowie in glam-mode was our model for our Loki%2C all nail-varnish eyeliner and the seductive potential of they-call-it-evil-we-call-it-us. Because we were in the Loki-should-be-hot camp way before Hiddleston brought anyone with any taste whatsoever to that particular yard.)
I’ll come back to sex as it’s important with Marvel Boy.
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Noh-Varr has two saving graces. Firstly, he hasn’t collapsed completely. He’s instinctively a hero – his hedonism is almost impossible to separate from a hero. Superheroism as Point-Break Surfer-Zen, world disasters as a wave to be ridden and mastered. Everything has been taken from him, and he acts like a hero anyway, because being a hero is the only thing that has ever meant anything to him.
(Random aside: Noh-Varr was totally the Wesley Crusher of his Kree ship.)
His second saving grace?
He loves Earth. He loves it in a way which us Earth dwellers may find a little embarrassing. And we find it embarrassing just because he’s seeing it with fresh eyes and we’re covered by the tar the 21st century tries to funnel into our lungs.
But Earth is amazing. Marvel Boy realises it, and he’ll die in the hope that some of us will too.
Hell, he’d die to ensure this record lived on.
He’s also hot.
Ever since our work on Phonogram, Jamie have strove to make our comics – for want of a better phrase – slash-fic-able. If you’re working in certain heroic fantasy genres, that’s part of the emotional churn. And that part is what loses the sort of person who thinks by Jamie redesigning Ms. Marvel’s costume he’s destroying the “sex-cake”.
(Oh man. Someone really did say Jamie had removed the icing from the sex-cake. Sometimes all you can do is blink when doing this gig. Blink so hard you hope your eyes open on some kind of better world. I digress.)
Anyway – point being: characters being sexy is cool but objectification in the process is bullshit. An inability to see the difference is a fundamental weakness. My wife’s in the next room watching Lord of the Rings, and I guarantee she’s thinking sexy thoughts about Aragorn. But that works without anything which annihilates him as a character, y’know? The readers mind will latch upon this stuff.
That’s how Jamie and me work.
Generally speaking.
Oh, Noh-Varr. You are the sex-cake.
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Date: 2013-01-12 03:32 am (UTC)Now I'm fairly certain that I am of the heterosexual orientation. But...Noh-Varr has some KILLER abs going on there...and I can't...seem to look...away...
(scrolls up and looks at scans)
I mean, damn...
(scrolls up and looks at scans again)
DAMN!
Yeah, Kate got it right with "beautiful alien boy" XD
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Date: 2013-01-12 09:08 am (UTC)Oh, wait.
Seriously Gillen? You have Kate out herself and her friends to a guy she knows from 1) him (temporarily) killing a teenager in front of them and kidnapping them to be tortured, and 2) a one night stand. SERIOUSLY?! Not to mention that she recognizes him as part of Osborn's Avengers. I'd be pretty goddamned concerned if my one night stand turned out to have been one of Osborn's Avengers, and I'm not even a super hero that he tried to have killed.
And while the view of Earth from space is a pretty awesome thing to wake up to, most people would be FREAKED OUT that they were kidnapped to outer space without their knowledge, which has just happened to Kate. Even super heroes find that worthy of freaking out over.
Also, I have no idea who this guy is, but he's not Noh-Varr. I'm sure there's a character in Marvel who's an alien and super-enthused about Earth, but Noh-Varr pretty much thinks Earth sucks like the vacuum that nature abhors.
I really wanted to be excited about this, but yeesh. I've got an equal number of complaints as there are pages in this preview, that does not bode well.
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Date: 2013-01-12 09:23 pm (UTC)Basically he changed.
And anyway, even during the Civil war they knew Noh-varr wasn't responsible for what he did to them.
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Date: 2013-01-12 01:30 pm (UTC)Must pick these up.
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Date: 2013-01-13 02:10 am (UTC)And I'm surprised that over fifty comments in I'm the first person to make that joke.
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Date: 2013-01-13 04:29 am (UTC)FLAWLESS. VICTORY.
YA and contemporary 'new adult'
Date: 2013-01-13 11:22 am (UTC)Bully for Kate not letting her past define her and enjoying a healthy sex life.
But lol at Noh Varr wasn't he a bad guy at a recent point of their history?
You can't trump sexual chemistry, I guess?