Avengers the Initiative

[LouFerignoDemon]

Your FACE is a rhetorical argumentalist!

You die for that statement. Watchmen style.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Zoophilia

Eyewannaphilia?

 

[Anubis]

ummm

Haemophilia?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Previewphilia!

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=109641

Mmm, jetpacks.

 

[BrianWilly]

Ah! So kids who have never operated jetpacks before in their lives are forced to fight Hydra now. I see.

I like the Negative Zone portals though. Way to actually make good use of it.

And I count three homosexuals in five pages! For the win!

 

[PhotoJones]

that last panel is especially cool. i'm going to love this book.

 

[SouLeSS]

I don't think I've ever been this excited to pick up a book, but after that preview, holy crap. Though the Bush scene was kinda...overboard...this looks like a VERY promising series (if it keeps it up like this, which I hope it does).

edit; I mean come on, if this doesn't give you chills or stirs up something in you, then I don't know what will.

 

[PhotoJones]

the only thing that bothers me is the inclusion of hulkling and wiccan. what happened? the last time we saw them they were heavily against the registration.

 

[chris moore]

so was justice - and he's one of the main instructors

 

[BrianWilly]

They lost the war. They can fight for the government or go to jail.

I'd hoped that they'd managed to somehow break free of that, but apparently not.

 

[PhotoJones]

They lost the war. They can fight for the government or go to jail.

I'd hoped that they'd managed to somehow break free of that, but apparently not.

that's what i don't understand. especially after cap's death, one would think that that would spur the young avengers to fight it even more. i just hope it's explained.

i have a feeling it won't be, though.

 

[BrianWilly]

I wish they had done that...but really, they're not the Runaways. They were willing to rough it as fugitives for a bit while they had something to fight for, but it wouldn't make sense for them to just give up everything in their lives for the long term without anything to show for it. Or, at least until Allan Heinberg gets off his lazy ass and starts writing them again.

Lots of anti-reg heroes are working with the government now. It's not like they have any choice; with the war over, Cap gone, and the remaining resistance in extreme hiding, there just isn't much point in fighting against it.

 

[PhotoJones]

I wish they had done that...but really, they're not the Runaways. It wouldn't make sense for them to just give up everything in their lives for the long term. Or, at least until Allan Heinberg gets off his lazy ass and starts writing them again.

Lots of anti-reg heroes are working with the government now. It's not like they have any choice; with the war over, Cap gone, and the remaining resistance in extreme hiding, there just isn't much point in fighting against it.

i think they only thing that would appease me is if it turns out they're secretly working to bring the inititiative down. otherwise, i think the bad taste in my mouth will stick around for awile.

 

[Anubis]

They were offered amnesty after the war ended, and most of the anti-regs took it. The only ones that haven't is the New Avengers, and I don't know, maybe Moon Knight and Ghost Rider.

 

[GL1]

You really think the Young Avengers think they can take down the government by themselves? Now THAT'S a fan.

I'm questioning whether I will like this book... the shock value and initiation type trials gave a lot of credence to the first issue's appeal for me... I'm not sure if I want to see a bunch of characters who's powers I find... uninteresting in action. But then again, I didn't buy the book to read about War, Just and Hank... I bought it to read about the kids.

 

[Anubis]

Powers are unimportant.

 

[PhotoJones]

You really think the Young Avengers think they can take down the government by themselves? Now THAT'S a fan.

it only takes one person to sabotage something.

plus, they're upstart kids. it's what they do.

 

[Darthphere]

Meh, they probably will throw out the whole they can do more good this way plot line for YA.

 

[Anubis]

Probably. I mean, they'll go along with it, and grumble under their breath, but they'll be good little soldier girls and boys. Though they'll probably give Stature the Stink eye for awhile.

 

[PhotoJones]

Meh, they probably will throw out the whole they can do more good this way plot line for YA.

nice sentence structure.

 

[Darthphere]

Probably. I mean, they'll go along with it, and grumble under their breath, but they'll be good little soldier girls and boys. Though they'll probably give Stature the Stink eye for awhile.

Exactly. Same way Justice is doing.

nice sentence structure.

Its what all the cool kids are doing.

 

[PhotoJones]

Its what all the cool kids are doing.

that doesn't explain why you're doing it, though...

 

[Darthphere]

Oh snap! You got me.

 

[PhotoJones]

Oh snap! You got me.

work sucks today. can we give GNR more parking lot beatdowns? it makes me feel better.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm betting the fact that Captain America surrendered made it a lot more palatable for the Young Avengers to register. Their choices after the war were to register or go on the run like the New Avengers, and the latter would definitely have brought further conflicts against overwhelmingly superior forces, which would result in more property damage and lives endangered. Ultimately, I think their belief in the freedom to not register was simply trumped by the impracticality of it. They probably figured without Cap to lead them or anywhere near the numbers of the pro-reg side, all they'd wind up doing is hurting more people until they were eventually captured or killed. It's pretty understandable that so far only a handful of heroes have had the balls to realize all of that, say "**** it," and do it anyway.