Thursday, March 8, 2012

Barely Legal Avengers

There's something perverted in the final issue of Avengers: The Children's Crusade! No, I don't mean this, silly:


That's a picture of Young Avengers Hulkling and Wiccan kissing, and it's sweet. Yup, two teenage boys in a loving, committed relationship, making out, in the pages of comic from a major publisher (owned by Disney), from a franchise with a major motion picture about to come out, in a story that will surely be collected and sold at your local Barnes and Noble. No, that's awesome, and good on Marvel Comics.

No, I'm talking about the last panel...


Sure, at first glance, it looks like various adult Avengers being nice and/or comforting to various Young Avengers. But if you focus just on the right...


...you've got Ant-Man giving a teenage girl a massage while Spider-Man squirts his webbing into a teenage boy's palms. Boundaries, Avengers! You're supposed to be mentoring these kids! Remember, Spidey, fifteen gets you twenty.

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