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Vaughan's two volumes (given he did 1-18 and then 1-24) are the best stuff Marvel's produced in a long time, really. It's just a shame that Marvel couldn't understand the formula for the life of them and saddled them with Whedon (who made it into a basic teen-team book with a bullshit helping of drama) and then Moore, who.. Well. It just wasn't the same. The only writer I was really into was the guy who wrote the Molly and the X-Men one-parter, and Immonen. If Immonen had been given more time to get running with her plot, I think it would've been good. Obviously a different flavour to Vaughan, but interesting.

But.. Yeah. Nico's one of my favourite character is all of comics, but the entire gang in general was good; I never quite got behind the 'arranged marriage' stuff with K and Xavin - that mysteriously worked out? But I thought the stuff Vaughan did - the whole way he wrote them, the circle of backstabbing and the promised threats if they turned on each other ('rip his heart out', I think, must be the most repeated line in Volume 2), felt very authentic in terms of them being teens, and very authentic in terms of them unknowingly following in their parents' footsteps.