Ah, the obligatory event tie-in, in which the currently established status quo gets rocked for one reason and one reason only, it is summer. I’ve been following Fear Itself pretty closely, and from what I can tell, there is some Asgardian supervillain who has just been unearthed, and he’s giving superhammers to the strongest guys on Earth in order to force them to smash things. It’s been pretty okay so far, although the majority of the tie-ins have gotten away with themselves, showing events that have not yet happened in the main books, like the immense fear that is gripping New York City, for example.
This book is neither tie-in nor event, however, being a mainline book that got roped in to the event because they needed something to do, and the buzz is someone is going to leave the team, and I’m going to imagine that it’s probably Mettle, based on the cover that they‘ve already shown us for issue 17, which is too bad, because I like Mettle. He’s a big old metal man with a heart of gold, and he deserves happiness. But whatever, we aren’t there yet. Let’s find out what’s happening now, as the Avengers Academy get their first “for serious this time” field action.
