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Avengers Academy #21 – Review

Posted on November 5, 2011 by dfstell

By: Christos Gage (writer), Sean Chen (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Jeremy Cox & Veronica Gandini (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), John Denning & Jake Thomas (assistant editors) & Bill Rosemann (editor) The Story: After the destruction of the Infinite Mansion during Fear Itself, the Avengers Academy needs a new home, and possibly a new direction. Five [...]

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Avengers Academy #18 – Review

Posted on August 21, 2011 by dfstell

By: Christos Gage (writer), Andrea Di Vito (artist), Jeromy Cox (colorist), Joe Caramagna (letterer), John Denning (assistant editor) & Bill Rosemann (editor) The Story: The Avengers Academy kids are dealing with Fear Itself when the hammer-wielding Titania and Absorbing Man invade the Infinite Mansion. The Review: This being a bit of a light week of [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #661 – Review

Posted on May 19, 2011 by dfstell

By: Christos Gage (writer), Reilly Brown (art), Victor Olazaba (inks), John Rauch (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spider-Man guest lectures at the Avengers Academy. What’s Good: You know how sometimes Spider-Man, despite being well established as a very powerful superhero, member of the Avengers, etc. turns [...]

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Avengers Academy #13 – Review

Posted on May 10, 2011 by dfstell

By: Christos Gage (writer), Sean Chen (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Jeromy Cox (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), John Denning (assistant editor) & Bill Rosemann (editor) The Story: The Avengers Academy teachers throw a prom for the kids. What’s Good: There’s a lot of good character development in this issue for the Academy kids and teachers and [...]

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Quick Hit Reviews – Week of April 20, 2011

Posted on April 26, 2011 by dfstell

Sheesh….we can’t review everything in full…..  :) Wolverine and Jubilee #4 - So, this n ice little miniseries written by Kathryn Immonen wraps up and it is a must read if you are a Jubilee fan because this arc really establishes where she will be going forward.  Kudos to the X-creative team for taking an interesting direction [...]

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Morning Glories Vol. 1 – Review

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Roman Colombo

Words by Nick Spencer, Art by Joe Eisma, Covers by Rodin Esquejo, Colors by Alex Sollazzo A friend of mine recently got into Lost and said that if he had watched it week to week, he didn’t think he would have enjoyed it half as much as watching them all at once. It would have [...]

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Avengers Academy #11 – Review

Posted on March 20, 2011 by dfstell

By: Christos Gage (writer), Tom Raney (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Jeromy Cox (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), John Denning (assistant editor) & Bill Rosemann (editor) The Story: Veil makes a mistake that brings the Academy students into conflict with a Grade A bad dude. What’s Good: Gage uses a very clever writing trick to show the [...]

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Quick Hit Reviews – Week of March 2, 2011

Posted on March 8, 2011 by dfstell

Our reading lists are pretty extensive here at WCBR and sometimes a few titles don’t get the “full review treatment”.  Sometimes that means a real gem didn’t get the limelight it deserved and sometimes it means a turd didn’t get properly mocked.  Let’s find out what we have this week… Avengers Academy #10 – This [...]

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Avengers Academy #9 – Review

Posted on February 21, 2011 by dfstell

By: Christos Gage (writer), Mike McKone (pencils), Rebecca Buchman (inks), Jeromy Cox (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Bill Rosemann (editor) The Story: Are Finesse, Hazmat, Veil and Striker really getting kicked out of the Avengers Academy?  Also, Finesse goes to check out an old Taskmaster training facility to find out if he might be her [...]

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Avengers Academy #5 – Reviw

Posted on October 8, 2010 by joelopez101

by Christos Gage (writer), Jorge Molina (penciller) The Story: Stryker recounts the events of the last few days, and his origin, to a silent Jocasta. The team gets a little hand-to-hand combat training from Steve Rogers himself.  A battle with Whirlwind on the streets of New York City inadvertently reveals the existence of the Academy [...]

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Avengers Academy #4 – Review

Posted on September 25, 2010 by joelopez101

by Christos Gage (writer), Mike McKone (penciller) The Story: The “Scared Straight” non-crossover with the Thunderbolts continues as three of the Academy recruits confront Norman Osborn and the rest of the Avengers (young and old alike) help the T-Bolts contain a prison riot on the The Raft. What’s Good: There’s a lot to like in [...]

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Thunderbolts #147 – Review

Posted on August 24, 2010 by tonyrak

Jeff Parker (writer), Kev Walker (artist), Frank Martin (colorist) The Story: Remember that song from the Kaiser Chiefs, “I Predict A Riot”? Yeah, that totally happens in this issue and it’s up to the Thunderbolts to crush the insurrection before it can begin or die trying. The wards from Avengers Academy show up, but I [...]

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