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A review by shanyreader
Avengers Academy, Volume 1: Permanent Record by Christos Gage
3.0
One star for the visuals...I felt that..while of course, detailed and standard-comic-booky, it was a little awkward at times with the emotions--especially Veil. What was up with her costume too... sorry, being a little critical. It's good, but not perfect enough for me. Though I must say, Reptil was pretty hot-looking X)
One star for the characters...I didn't like half of them. I didn't know half of them either, but that's probably just me not being a good comic-book nerd. But I did like the ones I did know--Quicksilver (eternally), the Juggernaut, and Osborne. Others, like Finesse and Hazmat, just rubbed me the wrong way. I didn't get the sense that they were actually normal teenagers. Some have sad back-stories, some are just...weird for unexplained reasons...but the thing I didn't get out of this was that Runaways-feel; they're normal friends sticking together...partly because they weren't really friends sometimes. It was just, not as emotionally involved within the story as I would have liked it to have been. Some relationships were just plain AWKWARD-- Veil and Lighting-dude, Finesse and Reptil...I just couldn't see it at all.
One star for plot: It's not my favorite...setting kids up to see whether they'll be supers or villains, but maybe there'll be plot-twists, and the unexpected ones become villains. Who knows, if we have the next one, I'll read it for the sake of continuing the series.
One star for the characters...I didn't like half of them. I didn't know half of them either, but that's probably just me not being a good comic-book nerd. But I did like the ones I did know--Quicksilver (eternally), the Juggernaut, and Osborne. Others, like Finesse and Hazmat, just rubbed me the wrong way. I didn't get the sense that they were actually normal teenagers. Some have sad back-stories, some are just...weird for unexplained reasons...but the thing I didn't get out of this was that Runaways-feel; they're normal friends sticking together...partly because they weren't really friends sometimes. It was just, not as emotionally involved within the story as I would have liked it to have been. Some relationships were just plain AWKWARD-- Veil and Lighting-dude, Finesse and Reptil...I just couldn't see it at all.
One star for plot: It's not my favorite...setting kids up to see whether they'll be supers or villains, but maybe there'll be plot-twists, and the unexpected ones become villains. Who knows, if we have the next one, I'll read it for the sake of continuing the series.