billywick:

ardatli:

fuckyeahyoungavengers:

Making this ask rebloggable by request :)

Short version - the spark is gone :(

Long version -

This is a text post I made about a week ago:

The chemistry between the characters is definitely there, but it’s an all -new formula. Gillen and McKelvie changed A LOT of things in YA, which is a good thing, because trying to recreate what Heinberg and Cheung did wouldn’t have worked AT ALL. They had to find their own voice and they did.
Still, I’m not overly enthusiastic about this new run.
I like McKelvie’s art - I LOVE how he manages to keep things fresh and interesting every issue. BUT Gillen and I see the characters in a very different way - especially Teddy and Kate. So right now YA is a book with a story that I like and characters I don’t always recognize. Which is why I’m anxious about Tommy showing up in issue #6.

Since I made that text post, I went back and re-read the first 4 issues. I tried reading everything like it WASN’T a Young Avengers book but a new book – with new characters. I found it boring. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying it’s a BAD story. Because it isn’t. It’s just not a story I can relate to.

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I said my piece on the original already, but short form - yes, this.

All of this, as well as the overbearing feeling that Gillen is laughing at us, not with us.

I don’t want someone sitting in the author’s seat yelling “FEEEEEELS” and “SCREAAAAMS” at us while deliberately mashing emotional hot buttons. I want someone on this book whose goal is simply to tell a good story with the characters that we came to know and love in Volume one. From what we’ve seen in interviews and ‘liner notes,’ I don’t think we have that. 

I’m hanging on for now, but I’m looking forward to a change in creative team. I’m sure that Gillen is very good in other genres, and McKelvie is an extraordinarily talented artist. I’m just not invested in what they’re doing with what used to be my favourite book. 

I personally take a lot more issue with the current run, but it was already phrased so well here I won’t attach another long ‘wick doesn’t like thing’ text. But alongside all those characterizations I don’t agree with and pace&plot issues I have, the way Gillen ‘handles’ the fandom feels incredibly condescending. I’m just beyond the age range of the characters. I don’t feel any kind of connected or empathetic towards them, their actions, anything at all anymore. I wanted a story. Not Gillen’s interpretation of what is ‘cool’ and ‘teenage’. Style>Substance indeed. Style is all well and good, but if your substance doesn’t draw me in and has to hook me with harsh emotional tugs, it just isn’t very good. Style without good substance is nothing more than a pretty shell that panders to a shallow market and leaves those truly invested in the characters and their lives empty and even disappointed.

I won’t drop the book because I too hope for a creative team change, but I care less and less with every issue. And that, considering how much I loved YA before all of this, that is a travesty. 

Reblogging for added commentary. 

I don’t know that I’d go quite that far - there have been some great individual moments. But I absolutely agree that this run feels hollow compared to the first volume. There’s just not as much there there. 

I feel badly for how much I abuse ferreisfair with random chunks of crap. Would anyone out there be willing to take a fine-toothed comb to about 8500 words of pseudo-medieval Billy/Teddy smuttiness? L33t grammar sk1llz, give-no-mercy attitude and some ability to peg historical inaccuracies preferred. 

ETA: Sorted, thank you!

Doing a Teen Wolf rewatch in prep for third season, and man. There are so many nods to things that come up later that I totally missed, the first time around.

And Kate. Katie Kate Kate. Your intro rocked so hard; why did you have to turn out to be a giant ball of crazy? [weeps for what could have been]

fuckyeahyoungavengers:

Making this ask rebloggable by request :)

Short version - the spark is gone :(

Long version -

This is a text post I made about a week ago:

The chemistry between the characters is definitely there, but it’s an all -new formula. Gillen and McKelvie changed A LOT of things in YA, which is a good thing, because trying to recreate what Heinberg and Cheung did wouldn’t have worked AT ALL. They had to find their own voice and they did.
Still, I’m not overly enthusiastic about this new run.
I like McKelvie’s art - I LOVE how he manages to keep things fresh and interesting every issue. BUT Gillen and I see the characters in a very different way - especially Teddy and Kate. So right now YA is a book with a story that I like and characters I don’t always recognize. Which is why I’m anxious about Tommy showing up in issue #6.

Since I made that text post, I went back and re-read the first 4 issues. I tried reading everything like it WASN’T a Young Avengers book but a new book – with new characters. I found it boring. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying it’s a BAD story. Because it isn’t. It’s just not a story I can relate to.

Read More

I said my piece on the original already, but short form - yes, this.

All of this, as well as the overbearing feeling that Gillen is laughing at us, not with us.

I don’t want someone sitting in the author’s seat yelling “FEEEEEELS” and “SCREAAAAMS” at us while deliberately mashing emotional hot buttons. I want someone on this book whose goal is simply to tell a good story with the characters that we came to know and love in Volume one. From what we’ve seen in interviews and ‘liner notes,’ I don’t think we have that. 

I’m hanging on for now, but I’m looking forward to a change in creative team. I’m sure that Gillen is very good in other genres, and McKelvie is an extraordinarily talented artist. I’m just not invested in what they’re doing with what used to be my favourite book.