Young Avengers #12

Young Avengers #12
Damn you Alan Heinberg! Why can't you get your scripts in on time? What has been one of the most surprisingly good books to come out of nowhere is now going on hiatus, because its writer can't meet a damn deadline!!! At first it was going to be a bimonthly, which, although disappointing, was acceptable. Heck, since moving to a bimonthly schedule, Joss Whedon has made his Astonishing X-Men work. He hasn't missed a scheduled month yet. But Heinberg couldn't even pull that off. And the ultimate chutzpah is that even though he can't manage to get this book in on time, he took the helm of the new Wonder Woman series, which, apart from ensuring that that series will be chronically late - just you wait and see - means that this wonderfully clever and refreshingly original book gets put on hiatus, and who knows if it will be back? And the shame is that judging from the first issue of Wonder Woman, it's going to suck hard. So a great book got cancelled for, at best, a mediocre book. Man do I hate this guy. Almost as much as I hate J. Michael Straczynski. No, I hate JMS more. I would give this book a high VERY GOOD, but on account of the aforementioned ridiculousness, I just can't. Really, this issue seemed to be a coda to the series, and effectively wraps up all outstanding plot threads. We get a new Hawkeye, we get confirmation (of sorts) that Warlock and Speed are Wanda's children, we get hints of a possible relationship between Hawkeye and Speed, Patriot gets infused with his grandfather's super-soldier blood, Changeling sorts out his problems with the Kree and Skrull empires - after a fashion - and the issue ends with this optimistic, though majorly corny, line: "I can't wait to see what happens next!" Sorry, you'll have to wait for quite some time. And odds are, beyond the upcoming Young Avengers/Runaways Civil War mini, nothing will happen, unless somebody decides to cameo these characters in other books. Goddamn it. GOOD.