About this episode

The episode discusses the first storyline in Young Avengers, introducing new characters and exploring their connections to the Avengers universe.

We're getting so close to New Avengers, but first we have one more series before the team reformed, and that's the first storyline in Young Avengers, which introduces some amazing new characters. Here we meet characters like Asgardian (who?), Hulkling, Patriot and Kate Bishop and we see more of perennial Avengers villain Kang!

People in this episode

Hosts: Jason, John

Topics covered

• Young Avengers
• comic book characters
• Marvel Comics
• Avengers
• storyline analysis

Keywords

• Young Avengers
• comic books
• Marvel
• Kang
• characters

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Young Avengers

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