Avengers Academy Retrospective Part 4: Fear Itself

Despite being a tie in to an event comic, Avengers Academy's tie in to Fear Itself is honestly one of the best things to come out of both. I'll also be posting another honestly good thing to come out of Fear Itself, an issue of Secret Avengers written by Nick Spencer. Because it's taking place in Washington DC like the events here, and is just that awesome.

This arc serves as a culmination of a lot of what Academy was about and may just be the best arc in the entire series. Yeah, it's downhill after this. But it's one hell of a high note.

Get your hankerchiefs ready, this is gonna be one hell of a tearjerker.

It also continues the trend these posts have had of "Academy showing up Arena at its own game" as we see death handled maturely and with peak drama.
For those that managed to miss this event (lucky you), )

 

salinea: Two woman dancing together "dance with me" (dance with me)

"The Passion of Scott Summers"

That's how it's called; and it's a very pretty page; but I can't post it because 4 pages limit!

Anyway:

4 pages from UXM #19 )
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Forge, we barely knew yee.

After a recent entry about Storm and Namor, I got to talking about Storm and Forge with  [personal profile] jazzypom and about what was done to Forge.  I'd like to see if anyone else gets annoyed. 

Image heavy scans from issues 28, 29 and 30 of the Warren Ellis "Astonishing X-Men" run behind the cut.

Oh, Forge...

Oh, Forge... )

Star Trek X-Men #1: Context Is...Not Really Necessary

Top Cow and Marvel put out the first ish of their Star Trek/X-Men crossover, and I bring you one page simply because everything on it made me giggle.

Full context is not altogether clear at this point; all y'all need to know is, a very 1990s X-Team has teleported onboard the Enterprise 1701-A to deal with a threat involving Proteus and the Shi'Ar on the X-side and Gary Mitchell (of TOS s1 ep "Where No Man Has Gone Before") on the Trek side.

After a bumpy X-port into the Enterprise's cargo bay, the two crews have to start meeting at some point, of course...

There is actually quite an appropriate explanation for this, sir! )

I don't know if I'll stick with this title, but it's hitting my fangirl sweet spots a lot better than that Trek/Legion crossover did.

3 scans from Astonishing X-Men 43

So... Danger senses another AI out there calling for help, so she calls in her favor to Emma and they go off to rescue it, from the Secret Avengers Bum bum buuuuum!




so they infiltrate and get there and this is what they see... )

so yeah... this was a GREAT Done in one issue. the banter between Emma and
salinea: Magneto going *?* (wtf)

Schismatics

(About 3 pages in all from X-Men regenesis)

While I still find that whole caveman metaphor thingy to be one of the most painfully stupid thing I've ever seen - that was a nice issue finally seeing everyone try to decide what to chose.

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