Strange Academy (2020-2022) #16

by Skottie Young, Humberto Ramos (Artist)

Character Spotlight Variant Cover by Arthur Adams Variant Cover by TBA It's school dance time! These events can go great or horribly, but even more so when magic is added to the occasion. Who will ask who? Who will find love? And whose heart will be broken?! Another unforgettable issue is here, and you aren't going to want to miss it!

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels

25 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 23, 2022

About the author

Skottie Young has been an illustrator and cartoonist for over ten years working for entertainment and publishing companies such Marvel, Warner Bros., Image, Upper Deck, Mattel, and many more.

He is currently illustrating the New York Times Best Selling and Eisner Award Nominated adaptions of L. Frank Baum's OZ novels with writer Eric Shanower. The series has gained acclaim from both fans and critics.

Skottie currently lives in Illinois with his family, Casey, Baxter and their Saint Bernard, Emma.

Reviews

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. It’s time for the school dance. But first, Calvin has been caught doing something he definitely should not have been doing and met a fate I didn’t see coming. Plus Emily stopped to help and left Doyle hanging. Man, this could lead to a future he saw in a previous issue. This ain’t good.

[Scratch · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just when you think the story is narrowing on a few specific students, and therefore improving in quality, this issue randomly includes several new students we have never seen or paid any attention to before. Yay. Just what this title needed-- more frickin' students.

The drug dealing storyline gets tackled way more abruptly than I was expecting it to. Never mind the fact I don't think the drug dealing storyline should have ever been written at all. As I have said before, the audience for this comic is a group of people desperate for any kind of power (magical or otherwise), so it's a bit insulting and counterproductive to indulge the cliché storyline that anyone hungry for power must be a villain.

Still desperate for this title to be cancelled.

[Ludor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Calvin's story line is definitely being rushed, it'd be nice if they had had time to explore it at the same pace as Emily and Doyle. I like seeing extras from the other classes, so the school doesn't seem empty, but was there really time for them to have dialog considering the pacing issues? There were a couple of really great visuals in this issue, which I'll leave at that because of spoilers.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the weakest issue we've had to this run so far. I, personally, find it hard to blame the writer because we've since learned that this is ending... and I expect Skottie wasn't given a whole lot of time to wrap things up.

[Burton Olivier · Rating 3 out of 5]

Aw, poor Doyle.

[Patrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not a cool way to end the issue. Can see where the action might lead to consequences latter on. Still loving this series and can't wait for the next issue.

[V. Arrow · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh, my heart hurts for all of these kids! They're trying so hard and are so teenaged!