Avengers Academy #18

Avengers Academy #18 ties into Marvel's Fear Itself event, and Billy Tan's cover sets a striking, sobering tone — a young man crackling with electrical energy stands at the center of a rubble-strewn battlefield, while teammates in gold armor and a blue masked costume stand nearby and fallen figures lie scattered across the devastated ground. The raw contrast between that surge of power and the wounded bodies around it captures exactly the kind of moral weight this series has always brought to its teenage heroes. Christos Gage, Andrea Di Vito, and Jeromy Cox deliver what Ain't It Cool News called "a sterling example of the best of the genre.