Young Avengers #13 Review

The strength of Young Avengers has always been in its characters, and issue #13 is no exception. Writer Keiron Gillen and artist Jamie McKelvie draw our heroes' confrontation with Mother to a close, just as they learn that the real conflict was internal. And okay, fine, the conflict is pretty external as well because there's much punching to be done, most of it by Miss America.

Since her inception, Mother has been a menacing villain in her own right, but at her core, she is a stand-in for the forces bearing down on the Young Avengers. Stories such as this tend to focus on adolescents (and newly post-adolescents) finding their place in a world that's determined to shape their future for them, and Young Avengers takes that formula to the next level. Learning who you are is tough, and becoming the person you want to be -- and not the person your parents or a psycho parasitic version of them wants you to be -- when you're busy saving the world and having super-powered existential crises is even tougher.

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