Avengers Academy #1 Comic Book Resources

10.06.10

This big problem is a slow start to the bright future of the Avengers franchise, but when you're pitching a half dozen new characters in front of readers, hightail it isn't going to help any. Add in some of the less well-known, but established, Avengers and suddenly there's a dozen characters to try to balance out. The recruits have been rescued from the clutches of Norman Osborn, who either triggered their powers or imposed powers upon these teens.

The comprehensive story is excessively wordy, with more word balloons explaining the action and interaction than straight-up affray scenes. All of this is necessary as the concept for this series has to be established somewhere. Gage sets the table quite nicely, using Henry Pym as the mediator to define the academy. I just hope next issue gives us a little more action.

Mike McKone is a excellent artist who handles a wide range of characters and settings to great effect. McKone draws Maddy Berry's piercing school dilemma and Hazmat's explosion with equal aplomb. Speedball carries himself differently than Reptil does. Quicksilver looks like a man that has run to criticism and back many times over. That said, between McKone's drawing of Pietro in the current day and the one panel highlighting Quicksilver with his sister and ancestor, I'm hoping to see more of the Maximoffs in this book under McKone's pencil.

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