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Variant Covers for the first arc by Bryan Lee O'Malley, Stephanie Hans, Tradd Moore, David Lafuente, and original series artist Jim Cheung. Bryan Lee O'Malley would also draw a variant cover for the first issue of Gillen/McKelvie's most recent project, The Wicked and the Divine, published by Image.
 Collected in:
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Kieron Gillen adds page-by-page writers notes
for all of his works, including titles by other publishers (e.g. Three, Uber), which are available on Tumblr and
his Workblog. His
commentaries for Young Avengers features some pretty insightful stuff.
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Similarly, Gillen has created musical
playlists for Young Avengers and Journey Into Mystery, compiling tracks which,
as he explains on Tumblr, either link to the issue or influenced his writing.
The playlist for Young Avengers are available on Spotify here.
There's also a separate playlist for The
Afterparty.
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Gillen and McKelvie wrote a prelude to this
series, The New World, for the Marvel NOW! Point One anthology, centring around
Miss America meeting Loki. However this story occurred in Earth-212, not 616.
Previously, Miss America and Loki had been featured in Vengeance and Journey
Into Mystery respectively.
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Each of these issues are enhanced for Marvel AR content. Content for #3-5 is available on YouTube.
#1 "Style > SubstanceContinuity Notes
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During his conversation with Billy in their
apartment, Hulkling refers to himself as seventeen.
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Hulkling says to Billy "the only mom I
ever knew got burned alive in front of me. And for the last year, I've been
stroking your hair and saying it's going to be okay." It's pretty clear
Billy and Teddy have been together for at least a year at this point.
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Around the same time, Billy also appears
briefly in Avengers Assemble Annual #1, which centres around the newly-rebuilt Vision
and his quest to reconcile himself in the post-Disassembled, post-Civil War
world. In the final scene, the Vision meets Billy at his apartment. As Billy
appears in full costume, the implication is this occurs after he has retaken
the mantle, however it's also possible that the costume is a formality for
meeting the Vision, and actually occurs before this. Gillen's response on Tumblr
indicates that this appearance occurs before #1, noting "Wiccan is
basically past the completely immobile part of his depression. He's almost
always fine. The problem is when anything about doing superheroing again comes
up, when he explodes. Which is basically what happened in YA1."
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Hulkling shapeshifts into the guise of the
Superior Spider-Man, indicating that this is within a month or two of Dying
Wish/My Own Worst Enemy, and the initial titles in the Marvel NOW! relaunch.
Peter/Octavius adopts a new costume in The Superior Spider-Man #14.
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Hawkeye also appears in the Hawkeye series by Matt Fraction,
alongside Clint Barton. How exactly these two series link with each other has
been a repeated joke between Gillen and Fraction when asked by fans, but how exactly
they do link will be (attempted to be) detailed in the sections on Hawkeye.
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Marvel Boy last appeared as The Protector in
the Avengers vs. X-Men arc of Avengers vol. 5. Noh-Varr explains "My
people ordered me to stay away from Earth. The Avengers felt similarly. Which
was fair. I didn't exactly do myself proud."
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The core character link to the previous
incarnation of the title, Wiccan and Hulkling, both previously appeared in
Avengers: The Children's Crusade. Both were likely 17 by the end of that story,
indicating this is some months after the conclusion of Children's Crusade. At
the end of Children's Crusade, Teddy proposes to Billy; an apartment together
is only a logical next step.
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As for Tommy's presence (a theme throughout
the overall 15 issue arc), Hulkling explains that because the Kaplans
"were so understanding" about Billy and Teddy getting an apartment
together, "they drove Speed so crazy he had to move out!" We see Tommy
at his new job in #6.
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This issue occurs entirely at night.
Pop Culture - Noh-Varr's room features posters for the films Metropolis (1927), Spirited Away (2001) and Blow-Up (1966).
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Noh-Varr plays 'Be My Baby' for Kate, a 1963
song by The Ronettes. He will play this track for her again in #15.
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The waiter at Joe's Diner refers to Loki as
"cosplay boy."
#2 "DYS"Continuity Notes
- This issue picks up from #1 in the next morning.
- A flashback in #10 bridges the gap between #1
and #2, showing Loki manipulating Billy overnight. The captions indicate this
was "half a year ago." The flashbacks in #7 indicate that the first story arc occurs in February.
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The Uncanny Avengers (or, formally, the Unity Squad) cameo in this issue.
#3 "Parent Teacher Disorganisation"Continuity Notes
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The Young Avengers go to MJ's Bar in New
York, introduced in Amazing Spider-Man #686. This has been decimated by
Superior Spider-Man #15, but is rebuilt in subsequent issues.
Pop Culture -
Wiccan says "This looked more fun in Fellowship," a reference to the
first Lord of the Rings
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Loki compares himself to Tyrion from Game of
Thrones. "You watch and/or read it?" Based on George R. R. Martin's
epic novel series, the acclaimed HBO adaptation began in 2011. As well as being roughly the same height as Loki and steeped in mythical history, the man who portrays Tyrion in the series, Peter Dinklage, would go on to portray Boliviar Trask, the creator of the Sentinel project, in 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past.
#4 "Deus Ex Machine Gunner"#5 "The Art of Saving the World"Continuity Notes
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It's in this issue that the Young Avengers
officially, officially reform, along with the debut of Wiccan's new 'cosmic'
costume, designed by McKelvie. The design and some commentary is available on his blog.
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Hawkeye says "In addition to the
accidental Skrull thing? I've been with Clint. You know, the original Hawkeye...", clarifying that this is at least some point during Fraction's
run, be it before her move to L.A. or after.
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