Marvel has always courted an angsty teen audience (and grown ups who still have the vacillating feelings and views on gender of an angsty teen audience), but for the most part their movies haven't really represented that audience. Marvel's main teen characters are Spider-Man and X-Men, and their movie rights are both owned by different companies. All their upcoming heroes? Boring adults. If not on the big screen, then, they why not the small screen? Teens love TV. The success of DC's Arrow and The Flash series on their hormone-ridden CW network make that clear. And if you still want that brand recognition, then Marvel would do well to bring Young Avengers forward as their animated corner of the MCU a bunch of teen heroes influenced by the adults. Whilst dealing with uniquely teen issues. In fact the second volume of the book involved the characters dealing with an otherworldly entity that turned all adults on Earth against them, so they run away from home the gay couple Hulkling and magical Wiccan, the multiverse-spanning Miss America, alien Marvel Boy, a female Hawkeye...and Kid Loki.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
