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Avengers Academy

This reminds me a lot from the old New X-Men / Academy X series; except not quite as uneven : instead it's pretty consistently mediocre. At the same time the characters are actually mostly interesting (at least when they're not too busy being deeply unsympathetic half of the time); and the storytelling is decent enough on average; it's the writing that is way too clumsy and on-the-nose. There's still a couple of good moments here and there; but as it stands, I'm not even sure I want to continue reading this.

Osborn miniseries

Wow that was great! Pretty much everything : art, storytelling, characterisation, themes; worked in a very riveting and interesting way.

Date: 30 April 2011 08:17 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] hafwit.livejournal.com
The characters in AA had/has a ton of potential, and the fact that they pretty quickly realize that they're there because they are bad news could be really interesting. What made nme stop reading was exactly what you point out: The kids are very hard to like much of the time, and the writing's pretty meh.

They ain't the Runaways. :-)

Date: 1 May 2011 08:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] etrangere.livejournal.com
Yeah, I'm usually pretty tolerant towards teen characters in terms of how much they can mess up without me seeing them in too bad a light,but when you get so low you team up with your friends to beat up a guy and videotape it as you make him say "sorry"; you've pretty much lost me.

I think the series also strongly lack some lighter and cuter moments of bonding between the kids and just being fun and sweet. It's pretty much angst and melodrama all the time - and mind, I love angst and melodrama and it's not that, storywise, those were bad. It just doesn't work too well if you don't cast it in contrast of other things, IMHO. Let us like those kids, damnit. Otherwise why are we supposed to care *grrr*

Very few series are the Runaways or the Young Avengers XD I'm tempted to make a compare & contrast teen teams/characters of Marvel now that I believe I've read most of them actually XD

Date: 2 May 2011 12:28 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] hafwit.livejournal.com
I'd read that. :-)

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