Two of my newest favorite characters are Molly Hayes, the super-strong little girl from Runaways, and Kate Bishop, the new Hawkeye from Young Avengers. Which means that I really like the regular Runaways/Young Avengers team-ups Marvel keeps doing every time there's a new event mini-series. It's like teaming up Wonder Woman and Black Canary.
Unfortunately, Secret Invasion: Runaways/Young Avengers focused on neither of my favorites. I understand that Secret Invasion is all about the Skrulls and that since both the Runaways and the Young Avengers have Skrulls on their teams that those characters are naturally going to get the focus. But did writer Chris Yost have to go so far out of his way to sideline Molly and Hawkeye?
Hawkeye spends the mini-series in a battle in Times Square that's sort of being covered in the main Secret Invasion book (as much as that book's covering anything, which isn't much), so even though I don't like it, I understand Yost's not wanting to recover it here. Although I would've welcomed some scenes fleshing out the Young Avengers' contributions to that battle.
But Molly... the way Yost gets Molly out of the way is horrible. She's the Runaways' most powerful member and seriously, how cool would it be to see a twelve-year-old girl kicking Skrull butt? Very cool, says I. But no. Instead, we get this.
That's right. Speed from Young Avengers zooms Molly and her friend Klara right out of the fight. And not just to the sidelines either. The "Mister President" Klara's talking about?
Lame.
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