It's The Heroic Age! All the Marvel heroes are friends again and there are no villains! Or something like that, and the Avengers want to keep it that way. So they're training up a team of brand new recruits in Avengers Academy while also lying to them. Perfect.

We read an unprecedented NINE issues of this series, all so we get to Taskmaster and talk about him.

Then we continued Ultimates with #7, and it definitely had some pictures in it.

We're going back to the early 90s to another Robin miniseries where the Joker is wild. It's called Robin II: Joker's Wild, and Batman's not in this one, Robin's flying solo!

We get some interesting looks at how he interacts with Batman's supporting cast when he's not around. And we also meet some of Robin's own supporting cast. We didn't know he had friends.

Then we go onto Ultimates #6 where we distinguish the Ultimates from their 616 counterparts.

Next Time: Avengers Academy (2010) #1-9

Woop woop! X-Men alert! It's a double-sized grab bag of X-titles! First up, we're taking a look at Uncanny X-Men #200 where Magneto is on trial in Paris in front of the UN.

We get some weird twins and some space aliens. Then we finally get into the Age of Apocalypse finale with X-Men Omega.

And then we gotta keep going with Ultimates #5, in which we get meet the Incredible Inappropriate Hulk.

Next Time: Tim Drake fights the Joker for the first time, in "Robin 2: The Joker's Wild!"