‘Secret Identities’ (#7-8): Artist Andrea Di Vito and inker Drew Hennessy filled in for the second, and shortest arc, which consequently has a much more traditional superhero art style, with lean, muscular, and wide-eyed characters reminiscent of Alan Davis. Patrick’s Cathedral.) The slowburn mystery escalates dramatically, as it’s revealed Iron Lad is Nathaniel Richards, aka the time-traveling warlord Kang the Conqueror, who’s not pleased about his younger self’s attempts to rewrite his destiny. (The first major action sequence, where the boys encounter Kate Bishop for the first time, similarly takes place in the beautiful yet approachable setting of St. Thanks to the set-up, as well as Jim Cheung’s pencils, John Dell’s inks, and Justin Ponsor’s colors, it’s an incredibly atmospheric and grounded debut for the title characters, with the action taking place largely in and around the gravel, cobwebs, and wooden beams of the ruined Avengers Mansion. ‘Sidekicks’ (#1-6): The first arc takes place during the brief period after Brian Michael Bendis and David Finch had destroyed the original group in ‘Avengers Disassembled,’ before reassembling them in “New Avengers.” It sees Iron Man, Captain America, and Jessica Jones investigate four mysterious boys, who are in the headlines for seemingly taking up Thor, Cap, Hulk and Tony’s mantles: it was fascinating to see how mysterious the “Young Avengers” were when they were introduced, in addition to the two premier Avengers teaming up with the protagonist of Bendis and Michael Gaydos’s considerably more adult comic “Alias.” Their first order of business: surviving the wrath of Kang the Conqueror and weathering the disapproval of the adult Avengers! Next, the newly formed Young Avengers take on super-powered sadist Mister Hyde, the extraterrestrial Super-Skrull and a full-scale alien invasion, juggling their parents and their private lives at the same time!
When the original Avengers disband, a team of teenage heroes comes together to fill the gap.
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