In addition to the end of “Wolverine and the X-Men,” the Marvel solicits released today additionally confirmed what many had feared/assumed: that Season One of McKelvie/Gillen’s “Young Avengers” was indeed the only “Young Avengers” we were going to get, with the two-part after party storyline wrapping everything up. As confirmed in a post on Kieron’s tumblr,
amie and my plan was always to do a season telling a contained story, leaving room to continue it if we felt we had something else to say. When the time came around and Marvel asked if we wanted to do more issues, Jamie and I decided we’d actually made our statement, and should leave the stage.
When we did that, Editor Supreme Lauren thought “Well, Young Avengers has always been in seasons. It’s never been a traditional ongoing. It exists in these short runs, where the creators do what they wish, then step away. Rather than becoming just like everything else, we should institutionalize that.”
In other words, while Young Avengers is going away after issue 15, I’m sure it’ll be back in an excellent new form at a future point.
This saddens us as it assumedly saddens you, though I would wager it has hit the fandom on tumblr even harder, as is evidenced by posts like this:
and responses to Gillen’s post like this:
Not to mention all the reaction gifs. Oh, the reaction gifs! Who knew there were so many ways to flip a table?
We assuredly echo these feelings here, yet still look forward to the story where McKelvie and Gillen kill Kate and bring her back as a zombie. The party isn’t over yet.
