Aw… Who am I kidding? I just love seeing Hybrid again. Now, let's see him go out there and try to eat some kids! Read Full Review

This is the forth time I've reviewed an Avengers Academy comic and I feel like I'm starting to sound like a broken record. Well too bad, this is a great title and if you're not reading it you're missing out on Marvel's best team book (possibly best book period). In fact, I'm going to up the stakes even more. While the art is still lacking, I don't think Christos Gage and the Avengers Academy has turned in a bad issue yet. Yes, it's that good. Read Full Review

As always, a great issue. Read Full Review

"Avengers Academy" has, post-"Fear Itself," picked up the pace and become a strong, tightly focused book. (It was good before, but this feels like a real shot in the arm.) Hopefully it will get the attention it deserves; Gage, Raney, and Hanna are turning out a fun and consistent comic here. I'm more than happy to stay enrolled with them as the deans of the school, thank you very much. Read Full Review

There's even more material to round out the issue, including a field mission and even more revelations about the future versions of the Academy recruits. Gage stumbles in some areas, such as a less than ideal portrayal of Hawkeye, but generally the material is solid. The problem is that the various pieces of the script never come together in a truly satisfying whole. Where once the book focused on too few characters at once, now it focuses on too many. The delicate balance of recent arcs needs to be restored. Also troubling is that Tom Raney's normally solid figure work is surprisingly stiff in many of the action scenes. In more ways than one, the book needs a little breathing room and a chance to catch up to all the chaos that has unfolded these last few months. Read Full Review

The main problem with this character arc with Striker is that there hasn't been enough "personal time" in order to justify such a radical shift. Striker's last personal arc was ages ago, and seeing all this personal exposition coming out in one conversation seems a bit of rushed. While I know Marvel wouldn't take an event like this lightly, but it almost feels like they did. Read Full Review

Gage handles Julie and Striker’s conversation exceptionally. I’m not to excited about X-23 jointing but I’m really excited to see how this Reptil in the future plays out