Avengers Academy #12 - On that cover, do the various pieces of the broken background look like they fight together? I was thinking that little chunk with the right side of Mettle's face doesn't fit with the larger piece with the other half of his face, bit I'm not prepared to chop the cover up and reassemble it to find out.The cadets, in their possible future bodies, fight Korvac. They beat Korvac, mostly Veil and Hazmat, but everyone at least takes a shot at him. Things are mostly restored, though the cadets remember their time in their possible future bodies. This means some members of the team have to cope with the fact it's not likely their situations will be improved.
So that wasn't a bad story. Gage didn't fall into the trap of portraying the cadets as better and more awesome than all the other more established heroes. Korvac underestimated them a bit, and Veil and Hazmat happened to have powers that were extremely useful in this situation that none of the Avengers had. It's a nice way to shake things up, especially about the mystery of who will turn villain. All the cadets have seen one of their possible futures, and Carina confirmed (or didn't deny) that the odds are against a happy ending for some of them.
I didn't like Tom Raney's rendition of Korvac any more this issue than I did last issue. I'm partial to his look in the Avengers Annual from 1987, where he fought the Silver Surfer wearing casual clothes and sitting in a recliner. If you're that powerful, why not wear what you like into battle? Raney's version is too muscled, and at times his hair seems too small for his scalp, like it's supposed to be on a smaller head. Which would be pretty funny if Korvac altered his physical appearance to look more powerful, but forgot to make more hair. I did like Finesse using Mettle as a mirror on the first page (or is it the 2nd page? Do you count the recap page?)
Darkwing Duck #11 - Femme Appeal is separated from DW and Steelbeak. She tries to rescue Gosalyn and Honker from Ammonia Pine, but gets the floor mopped with her and so of the Eggmen recapture the kids anyway. Launchpad has fallen under Duckthulu's power, but Morgana's infiltrating F.O.W.L. headquarters solo. And Darkwing gets decked by Steelbeak to serve as the sacrifice to bring about Duckthulu's rising. As Steelbeak put it, who didn't see that coming? Of course, Steelbeak might have wanted to stop and consider whether humiliating Darkwing was worth destroying the world, but if he stopped to consider such thungs, he wouldn't be a bad guy.Silvani gets to have some fun with sight gags again. The issue opens with a fight in a room that exists apparently solely to suspend things from the ceiling. And what gets hung in the air, must eventually come down - with hilarious consequences. He's always very good at foreshadowing things like that. In the ceremonial room, there are 3 dragons etched on the platforms are the sacrificial table. One is Pete's Dragon, I think one is the dragon form the evil witch in Sleeping Beauty took, and I don't recognize the other one. That's another thing Silvani does frequently, which I think is nice because they're just Easter eggs, and don't detract from the story (Pete's Dragon is a little too cheerful for such an ominous setting, though).
This Darkwing feels more like the one I remember from the cartoons. I haven't had any issue with how Brill's written him up to this point, it's more problems came so fast and furious Darkwing didn't really have time to settle into his old patterns. Now he has, and he's back to being egotistical and solitary, and it's working against him, as usual.
That's all the reviews for this week.
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