Young Avengers Presents - Stature #5 Review

YOUNG AVENGERS PRESENTS - STATURE #5
Written by Kevin Grevioux
Art by Mitch Breitweiser

While most of these Young Avengers Presents have been enjoyable in that they let me read stories about relatively new characters that I came to care a lot about when they were first introduced, very few of them have managed to capture what made those early YA stories so special. Maybe it's the format of the books or the lack of the team dynamics that is plaguing this series.

Whatever it is, this issue continues the disheartening trend of lackluster Young Avengers specials. Stature is shrinking and no one knows why. The team elects to shrink Patriot with Wiccan's magic (where's Teddy in all this?) and he gets on the microscope slide that they are currently using to see Stature. They have a chat, we find out Stature had a fight with her step dad, got in a super hero battle with the Growing Man, defeated him and the giant robot fell on top of her step dad, nearly killing him. Her mother yelled at her, there were daddy issues with references to Scott Lang and, in the end, it ended up all being psychological and she was shrinking because she was upset. Damn, I hope her puppy doesn't die or something.

It was a very pedestrian read and I felt little emotion and cared even less about the story. It's sad, too, because I love the characters and was so pysched when I first heard about this series and I don't think I've been overly impressed or happy with any of the issues to date.

Verdict - Avoid It

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