Review Group Week #273: Avengers Academy #13
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'Tis true. |
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Excellent, this is on my pull list. ![]() |
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I never went to prom, because the woman I was seeing at the time was married. ![]() BUT, there are IIRC lesser proms or dances like a junior prom, and I think of late some schools have even expanded that to have Freshman proms or allow them to attend Junior/Senior proms, although it's not as common. |
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Probably. But honestly, I'm more interested in novels right now. |
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Don't those earlier dances have different names? Like the Spring Fling or the Sadie Hawkins Dance or Homecoming? This is all based on Smallville/The OC/Veronica Mars/Boy Meets World/etc |
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Those would be more common than a Freshman prom or allowing Freshman to attend a Junior/Senior prom but while there are certainly shared traditions, it just varies school-to-school. I agree it probably would make more sense to call it a different kind of event, but they wanted that "Superheroes go to...PROM??!" kind of thing. That was in part my problem with the book, none of it made much sense outside of Gage wanting to tweak all these "John Hughes-ian" teen tropes and stereotypical scenes and conflicts. It felt like a pastiche of movie moments. Oh, uh, BTW: 3.5 |
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Maybe it was a tie-in to that upcoming Disney movie? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prom_(film) Conspiracy! |
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![]() That is some Rich Johnston-level stuff right there! |
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All in all, the comic loses points for loose cat women and silly drama, but gains points for Gravity making an appearance in the book. 6.5 |
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This is a difficult book to review. It’s not that is poorly written or an uninteresting concept. It is neither of these things. However, it is nigh impenetrable. It’s not that it is difficult to figure out what is going on in this issue, it isn’t. The problem is that the cast is too large and too much of this issue is dealing with relationships in midstream, resolution of a recent storyline and an intimate knowledge of past Avengers history. One or two of these things at a time is okay, but three of them coupled with not knowing who any of the kids (who I assume are the main characters of the book) are and it is not a pleasant read for someone who hasn’t read it in well something like ten issues. That being said, Gage does a tremendous job juggling all those things that work against the book and alluding to where one might go to find out more (i.e. previous issues or back issues of West Coast Avengers). When you throw in the fact that each of the twelve gazillion characters making an appearance in the book seem to have a consistent and individual voice, you realize that this is an expertly written comic. However, given that I was not a huge fan of the last volume of this book and by the fact that I have not read this volume in 11 or so issues, it is obvious that I am not one hundred percent onboard with this concept (I think it is a neat idea, I just don’t want to read it), so as a critic it becomes an odd thing to talk about. I don’t like, don’t know enough about it, but can recognize the craft involved in its construction and the extent to which the writer has gone to make comprehension somewhat attainable for a reader who decides a prom for a bunch of teen superheroes is interesting. Sean Chen is awesome. He is a perfect comic book artist. He can handle the group dynamic well and draws great action scenes. There are some minor things I could quibble about, the absent of pupils in characters’ eyes here and there, but it is the height of nitpicking and there is no reason to do that. (Also, Katy Perry, really? Yuck.) Story – 3 Art – 4 Overall – 7 It’s an admirable book I wish I cared more about. |
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None of which is apparent in this issue, therefore, it is irrelevant. |
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I stopped reading this review at "various and sundry"... those words mean EXACTLY THE SAME FUCKING THING!!!! |
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Are you back or just emertusing? |
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You decide, fuck nut. |
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