Giant-Size Little Marvel by Skottie Young

Young’s artwork is wonderfully whimsical, accentuated by his I Hate Fairyland colourist Jean-Francois Beaulieu’s bright and eye-popping colours - the visuals are a huge part of this book’s appeal. Young’s probably best known for his chibi Marvel variant covers and this is basically like reading a comic featuring those characters.

Like the best Secret Wars tie-ins, Giant-Size Little Marvel: AvX has nothing to do with the main event it’s really a sequel to Skottie Young’s brilliant standalone comic from a few years ago that parodied the stupid Avengers vs X-Men event, A-Babies vs X-Babies (for completeness, context and some padding, the one-shot is also included in this volume).

The Avengers and the X-Men are kiddie-fied in Giant-Size Little Marvel: AvX, adorably “battling” one another over nothing (like their adult selves more often than not)! Then a pair of twins arrive in the neighbourhood and the Avengers and X-Men have a new thing to fight about: convincing the new kids to join their side over the other! It is, however, a much shorter, cuter, re-imagined version of it! In fact, if you're thinking of purchasing the original, I'd tell you that Young's AvX would be a better way to spend your money. Now, obviously, this isn't the real AvX storyline. Point is, she was really digging the art. I don't personally get it, but (after watching my older daughter do this) I'm saying it's a real thing. She's at that age where a lot of little girls suddenly consider themselves more mature than the 'little' kids, and therefore suddenly feel the need to love/nurture all the babies. I liked it for the same reasons she did.Īdmittedly, I was far more excited that this was done by Scottie Young than she was, but it was cool that she really thought the drawings were super cute. So, Sophie liked it for all the reasons a 3d grader would enjoy a comic - silly but fun storylines, brightly-colored action, and all her favorite characters delivering sassy punchlines.Īnd I liked it because.Ok, fine. She's a kid and I'm an adult, for God's sake! Of course, my daughter and I liked this one for vastly different reasons.

The point is, I usually believe that if something is written well enough that both kids & adults can enjoy the humor, then you're probably looking at a winner.

I find random children highly annoying & more than occasionally gross. This one was recommended to me by Sam, who as far as I can tell doesn't even like children. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of non-superhero graphic novels in her reading level!īut.she's not always interested in those.<-I can relate. I'm at the point in my illustrious mothering career that allows me to freely hand out stuff to my older ones, yet I still find it difficult to track down good comics for the 8 year old. It's fun to share the books you love with your kids (or nieces, nephews, close friend's etc.), but sometimes it can be hard to find quality stuff for the younger set.

Giant-Size Little Marvel by Skottie Young