User blog comment:Hawkeye2701/Review4U: Sam Alexander the Newest Nova/@comment-4652104-20131201093112/@comment-1458758-20131201164114

Um, I don't mean to be confrontational, you're entitled to your opinion, but Sam and Ava weren't made for the cartoon, and their power man is just a younger version of Luke Cage. If you check their debut dates, Sam in the 616 started in Point One in January 2012, but the cartoon one only appeared in April and Ava showed up in Avengers Academy in December 2011 and in the cartoon again, April 2012. It's only a few months I'll grant you, but they did appear in their hero persona before the cartoon.