Marvel Hotline: Christos Gage on Avengers Academy #1

School is in-session with Christos Gage and Avengers Academy!

Every Monday, Marvel Hotline features a top creator chatting about his/her work on a comic soon to be in stores. Listen in on the phone conversation and see the awesome art for yourself!
This week, Christos Gage takes you to school with the debut of AVENGERS ACADEMY #1!
Pick up your copy of AVENGERS ACADEMY #1, on sale June 9!

[atruecausa]

I can't wait to see Reptil joining the MCU. He's my favorite

[TheKingFucktard]

@HotKebab it's been done before, resurch "M" and Penence" from Generation X .

[rudedude]

Mettle is a cool guy I hope nothing bad happens to him

[Rissako]

Well, this has at least convinced me to check it out - could be good.

[assembleavengers]

finesse seems like taskmaster who has photoreflexs definately picking this up does it come out next week or this week?

[TheKingFucktard]

@riffology he's from the Cartoon .

[bsabruzzo]

@riffology Finesse seems a bit more like Zelig (Woody Allen film). Oh, you didn't know this was done long, long ago and it wasn't a comic book?

As for which came first, the cartoon or the comic... does it matter?
Harley Quinn or Firestorm anybody?

[TheKingFucktard]

@bsabruzzo (continued again) another thing, the even look and seem like the teen titans !

Finesse = Robin
Metal = Cyborg
the red head = Starfire
Hazmat = Raven
Reptil = Beast boy

What about re-using The Runaways, Young Avengers, or Slingers ? What I want from Mavel is original characters and development .

[Overweightrabbit]

Cristos Gage looks nothing like I imagined. I pictured him looking foreign.

[TheKingFucktard]

@bsabruzzo I never said "boycotte" them, but why make "in-company" rip-offs when they could just use the originals ? Generation-X had good sales when it was pulled during marvels attempt to do something different with the x-books (X-Statics, Exiles, Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely) . The New Warriors had a good start in the early 90's and then they where made into a reallity TV show Joke . The New X-Men, X-Force, New Mutants, New Warriors, Generation X, Runaways, Slingers, and so on

[Digidude]

what are the heros names and powers in this comic?

[TheKingFucktard]

@bsabruzzo (continued) All marvel teen books have had a huge cast and is then thrown away. This book has a disposible cast of characters that know one will care about in 5 years . This book won't last that long because marvel doesn't care about them . Look at how many years DC has been using the same Teen Titans , they make characters and if they swim, they're given life, if not, they go away . The Teen Titans have 30+ years of history, Marvel would never give any newer character that .

[bsabruzzo]

@TheKingFucktard I've been thinking about these rip-off characters. I think they all should be boycotted. Here's a list of charachers that were ripped off from others and we should complain about:
- Batman (Zorro)
- The X-Men (Doom Patrol)
- Superman (Philip Wylie's Gladiator 1930)
- The Green Lantern (Lensman 1937)

Or maybe these aren't rip-offs, just seem similar?

[TheKingFucktard]

Finesse = M from Generation X with Taskmaster powers (lame)

I don't like the design of "Metal", I thought he was "Red Skull jr."

Hazmat is Rogue from the X Men, but weaker .

Dinoboy/Reptil needs to be killed .... FUCK Superhero Squad!!!

The Red headed chick with the black suit is a cross between Dusk and Dust.

And lastly, who the fuck is the guy in the black suit with lightning on it ?



This book will fail