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Forget the Super Bowl with this First Look at Avant-Guards #2

Published Mon, 04 Feb 2019 17:30:14 -0600

The Super Bowl is over, and we're left with just one question: was the halftime show the most disappointing part, or the game itself? Stuff like this is why we prefer to enjoy scripted sports entertainment, such as pro wrestling, or sports comic books, like the BOOM! Studios series The Avant-Guards, about "a ragtag group of friends who band together to build the first ever basketball team at their historic woman's art college" by Carly Usdin and Noah Hayes.

BOOM! has released a first look at The Avant-Guards #2, in which we promise the lead singer of Maroon 5 does not take his shirt off. The comic hits stores February 27th.

Olivia "Liv" Bates, art major and basketball enthusiast, loves nothing more than a challenge, whether it's on or off the court, so when she decides that new transfer student Charlie Bravo is the perfect fit for the team (and possibly for Liv), she gives it everything she's got and more. Liv ends up recruiting the rest of the budding Georgia O'Keeffe College of Arts and Subtle Dramatics basketball team to approach their new potential team member. But Charlie's got a complicated past and a thorny relationship with team sports, and Liv might lose Charlie entirely by pushing too hard, too fast. Will she manage to convince Charlie to give her and basketball a try or will her hail mary shot miss the net and cost her the team?

THE AVANT GUARDS #2 features a main cover by Hayes and a variant cover by Cara McGee (Black Canary: Ignite, Dodge City).