Children Of The Avengers And Justice League Are Surely Not All Right

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In the world of comic books, the future will always be upsetting the lives of our loved superheroes. Be the time-traveling ones or time that finds them, they see a very different reality where they can strive for or fight with what they have to prevent. It is a storytelling device used many times in comics, from Marvel to DC, Image and other publishing companies. But, both Marvel and DC comics have recently released stories that feature one similar component: the future children of the super-teams, Avengers and Justice League.




The timing of the two releases of the two may not be a coincidence. Since Marvel and DC brought very similar ideas to at the same time, it is possible that the future heroes are a signpost of the things that are to come.

Marvel Comics is in the midst of publishing a maxi-series of 10 issues under the Generations banner. These are a series of stories, and each issue throws light on one legacy character from Marvel’s timeline time-traveling to the past and meeting their original namesake.

X-23 met Wolverine, Jane Foster met Thor Odinson, and Amadeous Cho met Bruce Banner. This brought new hope and fire for the young characters, and they returned to the present and were ready to move forward as superheroes.

 But one of these issues was different. “The Iron,” written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Marco Rudy, Nico Leon, and Szymon Kudranski had focused on a character who was new to the Marvel Universe: Riri Williams, the genius teenager who created her suit of armor to become Ironheart.




Riri was not sent to the past like the others. Instead, she was taken to the “far-flung future,” where Tony Stark is 126 years old and quite strangely, the new Sorcerer Supreme – Doctor  Strange. When Riri arrives at the land, it does not take long for her to be greeted by the Avengers of the future.

This team is the same group of grown-ups of our heroes in the 2008 movie, Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow. The team has Azari of Wakanda, the son of Black Panther and Storm, son of the Wasp and Giant Man, Henry Pym, Jr., Thor and Sif’s daughter Torunn, the son of Clint Barton Francis, the new Hawkeye, and James Rogers, the son of Captain America and Black Widow.

Although they are popular in their time, the superhero antics are limited by the world largely at peace. As the Sorcerer Supreme, Stark is taking care of threats to the world without lifting a finger and the children have nothing much to do.

In DC Comics, things are different and bleak. Starting with issue #26 by Bryan Hitch and Fernando Pasarin, the readers were introduced to the children of the Justice League, 20 years into the future.

The DCU’s Future Is Not So Bright




The team is led by Hunter Prince, the biological son and Wonder Woman and adopted son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane; the children of Jessica Cruz and Barry Allen, Nora, who has her father’s speed, and Jenny and Jason Allen, who have the power of the Lantern Light; Cube, the son of Cyborg; and Eldoris Curry, the daughter of Aquaman and Mera.

The heroes fight in a world that is engulfed by darkness. Mount Olympus has fallen to Earth, and the gods are exiled. The children are fighting a losing fight with a hope to change the tide. They are also on the run from a monster in the broken image of one of their fathers and from a villain known only as Sovereign that rules all. In a world where hope does not exist, and no love or peace, the children have each other, and they are a family.

This is the biggest difference. We have the next generation of Avengers who say they are famous but do not do much of anything. They may feel useless and eager to help the world.

Then you have the children of the JL, battle-hardened people. They managed to travel back in time on their own with a hope to change things for the better.

The Mighty Avengers’ appearance was a one-and-done, Hunter Prince and his friends are featured in the pages of Justice League.




Their mission is not over, and fans do not know what will happen to them. If they are not successful, then they may erase themselves out of existence. But, if they manage to change things, they may hang around and get their own title set. The same goes for the Avengers.

Marvel and DC are in the midst of line-wide relaunch with Legacy and DC Rebirth. Both have focused their relaunches around the past and the future, and this is what the children may represent. The series may become a microcosm title to represent what the two are trying to build.

Like the confrontation with Thanos, the disappearance of Fantastic Four, Black Lantern rings and fall of Aquaman, there may be seeds planted for future storylines. The children represent the future, and they may hold the answers that fans need.

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