Despite Tigra gracing but one panel in a cameo role, Avengers Academy still earns a perfect score. It's simply the best book Marvel's publishing. Read Full Review

After a few recent missteps this series is back on track and lots of fun to read. Recommended! Read Full Review

Gage keeps the goodness coming in this issue that shows the Academy kids dealing with a villain who is WAY too powerful for them, but he comes up with a neat way to make the kids more competitive and give us additional reasons to care about the kids. The art is fine and give that this title is hitting its ship dates like clockwork. Read Full Review

Tom Raney makes his debut as the series' new regular penciller in this issue. Raney generally makes for a worthy replacement for Mike McKone. His facial work is expressive and his character designs faithful to McKone's. Scott Hanna applies a heavier slate of inks to help nudge the book closer to McKone's style as well. Raney is a bit hit or miss when it comes to the action scenes. A splash page featuring the various Avengers suffers from odd, distorted perspective, as if the characters aren't all moving on the same plane. Conversely, a scene of Thor getting the Asgardian stuffing knocked out of him stands out as particularly eye-catching. As Raney settles into the book, I look forward to more work of that caliber. Read Full Review

This issue is kind of a mixed bag for me, in that Mike McKone is officially announced to be out, and Tom Raney in as new artist. Raney's facial expressions are more cartoony than McKone's work, and it's clear that some of the subtle bits of costumery than I liked (Veil's mask, Finesse' weird costume trim things) may be going away, and I was very disappointed to see that the grown-up Academites look pretty much exactly like their teenage selves, save for a goatee, some digital effects, and Mettle giving up his shirt. Christos Gage, as always, manages to give these characters dignity and identity even though their powers, costumes and gimmicks are kind of familiar. There's a few good lines (Striker has a quip about Reptil getting in the cartoons that's pretty meta) and overall, it's a strong issue. The visuals aren't bad, they're just not as good as previous issues of this same book, and the Wasp swerve wasn't telegraphed at all (save for the appearance of Korvac in the solicits), but th Read Full Review