Comic Book: Avengers Academy

Avengers Academy #1

August 2010
"Permanent record"
Script: Christos N. Gage
Norman Osborn's Dark Reign is over, ended in the Siege event. The old Avengers titles have all ended and new titles have started in the Heroic Age. In particular the Initiative superpower training camp, corrupted by Osborn, has now been replaced by the Avengers Academy. [...]

Avengers Academy #2

September 2010
"Gifted and talented"
Script: Christos N. Gage
Last issue we were introduced to the Avengers Academy, a replacement for the Avengers Initiative training camp which Norman Osborn dragged into disrepute. [...]

Avengers Academy #3

October 2010
"Scared straight - part 1:- Boyfriend in a coma"
Script: Christos N. Gage
The focus and voiceover this issue is Hazmat (Jennifer Takeda).We begin with Jenny remembering her super origin. Her family were rich and she was popular and doing well in school. She was with her boyfriend Greg in her bedroom about to have sex for the 1st time when he suddenly got sick. [...]

Avengers Academy #4

November 2010
"Scared straight - part 2:- Fix you"
Script: Christos N. Gage
Last issue the Avengers Academy students were taken to the Raft supervillain prison in an attempt they believe to 'scare them straight'. But Jennifer Takeda (Hazmat), Ken Mack (Mettle) and Maddy Berry (Veil) had a different idea. [...]

Avengers Academy #5

December 2010
"Fame"
Script: Christos N. Gage
This time it's Striker's turn for an origin and voiceover.1 Sunday morning in the Infinite Avengers Mansion he's sneaked down at 4:12am for a snack from the fridge. Then he's startled to realise 1 of Jocasta's robot bodies is behind him. [...]

Avengers Academy #6

January 2011
"I dreamed a dream"
Script: Christos N. Gage
This issue's focus and voiceover is Reptil (Humberto Lopez). We've already had an origin for him in the Avengers Initiative - Reptil 1-shot, but this issue adds some extra information. [...]

Avengers Academy #7

February 2011
"Always on my mind"
Script: Christos N. Gage
In the Infinite Avengers Mansion Tigra finds Hank Pym in his lab. She's carrying her baby son William and wants to know the results of tests Hank's run. He tells her that, given that the only catperson he can use for comparison is *her*, the boy is perfectly healthy. [...]

Avengers Academy #8

March 2011
"Powerless"
Script: Christos N. Gage
In the middle of the night Tigra thinks she finds the Avengers Academy students using the Comms Room to watch porn on the Internet ... but it actually shows her being attacked in her bedroom (not here in the Infinite Avengers Mansion) by the Hood (in New Avengers vol 1 #35). [...]

Avengers Academy #9

April 2011
"Teach your children"
Script: Christos N. Gage
Last issue Finesse, Hazmat and Veil took filmed and posted revenge on the now-powerless Hood for Tigra. But when she found out she expelled them from Avengers Academy.This issue begins by continuing that scene with Tigra deaf to their protests and leaving the room. [...]

Avengers Academy #10

May 2011
"Redemption Song"
Script: Christos Gage
This issue will concentrate on 2 of the Avengers Academy students, Hazmat and Veil. The issue begins with them waking in their bedrooms in the Infinite Avengers Mansion. [...]

Avengers Academy #11

May 2011
"Growing up"
Script: Christos Gage
Avengers Academy student Maddy Berry (Veil) is desperate to redeem herself after some unwise moves because her life depends on it. She needs head teacher Dr Pym (Giant-Man) to stop her gaseous power from eventually making her disperse away. [...]

Avengers Academy #12

June 2011
"Put away childish things"
Script: Christos Gage
Last issue another of Veil's attempted good deeds went awry as she tried to retrieve Dr Pym's discorporated ex-wife Wasp but instead got Carina, wife of god-like villain Michael Korvac. Loads of Avengers assembled but he defeated them all (again). [...]

Avengers Academy #13

July 2011
"Prom night"
Script: Christos N. Gage
Dr Henry Pym's not too comfortable with the Prom Night that's been arranged for the Avengers Academy students and guests. He mentions the hard fight they had with Korvac. [...]

Avengers Academy #14

July 2011
"Disaster response"
Script: Christos Gage
Most of the Avengers Academy staff (and other Avengers) are out handling crises (we see Giant-Man and Quicksilver dealing with a volcanic eruption of Mount Etna, Italy). [...]

Avengers Academy #15

August 2011
"No Unwounded Soldiers"
Script: Christos N. Gage
In the wake of Sin’s release of the Serpent, the Asgardian God of Fear, there is a mass breakout at the Raft. [...]

Avengers Academy #16

September 2011
"Fear Itself, Chapter 2: A God-Awful Small Affair"
Script: Christos N. Gage
Synopsis: In Dubai, Giant-Man is fighting the Absorbing Man, possessed by Greithoth, Breaker of Wills, and grown to giant-size himself. [...]

Avengers Academy #17

October 2011
"Battle Scars"
Script: Christos N. Gage
At the battle in Washington, D.C., the students of Avengers Academy (Mettle, Finesse, Reptil, Veil, Striker, Hazmat) have learned to work together to take down a Nazi war machine. [...]

Avengers Academy #18

October 2011
"Bad Guys"
Script: Christos N. Gage
The bad guys Absorbing Man, possessed by Greithoth, Breaker of Wills, and Titania by Skirn, Breaker of Men, invade Infinite Avengers Mansion, cut off from the rest of the world, to destroy the Academy’s students. [...]

Avengers Academy #19

November 2011
"Things Fall Apart"
Script: Christos N. Gage
The Absorbing Man, possessed by Greithoth, Breaker of Wills, has turned the Infinite Mansion’s Pym Particle generator against the Mansion, causing it to grow through the Microverse until it breaks through into the regular world, crushing a city when it happens. [...]

Avengers Academy #20

December 2011
"Endings"
Script: Christos N. Gage
In the final moments of the defeat of the Serpent, Maddie “Veil” is sitting alone in her room as TV news reports announce the death of Thor. Justice and Reptil knock at her door to see if she’s all right; she phases through the door to tell them she’s fine and to go away. [...]