Heinberg talks youth

Okay, so I didn't like "Avengers Disassembled" and I wasn't too sure about Young Avengers, but I do like what YA writer Allan Heinberg has to say about his creations.

So in YA No. 1, readers spend the first half of the book with characters they already know and love: J. Jonah Jameson, Jessica Jones, Cap and Iron Man. All of whom are comparing notes and asking the same question: "Who the #%@& are the Young Avengers?" So, after setting up the mystery of the Young Avengers with characters that readers are already invested in, I felt safe bringing the kids onstage and putting them through their paces.

Sounds good. Then Heinberg explained something he calls "The Naked Man Test":

"The Naked Man Test" is: "If you lock a character in a room with a naked man, do you know without having to think about it too long, how they're going to react?" If so, you probably have a pretty sharply drawn character on your hands. If not, keep working on it. For example, all four main characters on Sex and the City are going to have very different, very specific reactions to that naked dude because they're great characters.

Heinberg went on to talk about his comic writing style, which he developed under the capable wings of Geoff Johns and Brian Bendis:

Generally the way we work is, I write up a two-page outline each issue, which is broken down in terms of each page's story points. I'll send it to Jim and to Marvel, incorporate everybody's thoughts, then start writing a full script. Then once Jim finishes his pencils I’ll re-write the script, sometimes fairly extensively. Jim's art is so good he'll make a lot of my writing unnecessary. Nothing makes me happier than cutting a huge chunk of dialogue because Jim's conveyed it all through his pencils.

So, how is the book? I already know the big surprise of the first issue, which was interesting. What do you think?