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I'm up to #3. Pressing question: DOES CHASE EVER GET A HAIRCUT? I keep thinking he's some chick.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Saturday, 9 October 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

HOLY GEEZ!1!1!

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Saturday, 9 October 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

WHY AM I ALWAYS COO COO FOR YOUNGSTER HIDEAWAYS???

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 10 October 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Was Runaways intended as an 18 issue mini??

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep, AFAIK. Or at least, 'Season 1' or whatever he wants to call it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it was set to be cancelled, but it was given a chance to finish stuff up tidily (possibly due to good word-of-mouth?), & it is coming back next year (in a provisionally unlimited format). I think I heard that sales on the manga-sized TPBs have been solid, but that's probably wishful thinking on my part.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 1 November 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Was there ever a second TPB? I got the first and liked it enough to plan on buying the second, but never saw it....

― David N (David N.), Monday, 1 November 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure it came out, but it's weird: Amazon has the first trade listed as available and the third trade as to-be-released, but the second one (Teenage Wasteland, I believe) is nowhere to be found.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 1 November 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

I saw (and bought) the 2nd trade yesterday at my Local Comic Shop, so it does exist.....

― David N (David N.), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

I don't know if anyone's mentioned it, but the first issue of the Runaways restart is FANTASTIC. I was a little worried since the final issue of the first series was on some cornball shit, but this FUNNY, it's fast, and a great springboard.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Corny! The heck says you! (Granted, I think a good chunk of the series is corny, in the best possible way.) And, yes, the first issue of the new run is fantastic, esp. EXCELSIOR!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

The whole "let's run away AGAIN!" ending was a bit of cheese, but it's awesome in practice. Yeah, the sidekicks support group is brilliant.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Question (that probably won't be answerable): is the Power Packer in the group the one that flew around w/ a rainbow trail in her wake, or the one that shot energy balls from her torso? Or did they swap powers so that the one that USED TO do the balls now has the rainbow wake?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

She was the rainbow girl who, in the power swap, ended up with the mass powers (but I think they eventually sorted that out only at some point Alex stole all their powers and ran off to hang out with New Warriors).

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

(no way! what a tool!)

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

(But dude, he helped save the universe)

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

(well, geez, leave out THAT detail, why don'tcha, Dang!) (still, Alex = blonde W!l Wh3at0n = tool because I am jealous of his fancy powers / hipster doofus cache).

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Wait, I thought Alex was the black kid who, um, ***spoilers deleted (but he's not around anymore)***?

And they all have their original powers back, right?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

No, no - Power Pack Alex, not Runaways Alex.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

Haha, so there are multiple groups of Marvel teen heroes who have rainbow trails, energy ball projectiles, and power-stealing Alexes? I love it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

I sense a rut.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

(Also can someone summarize Runaways Vol. 1 plz?)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

SPOILERS

A bunch of Cali kids (I don't know, 5-8 of 'em) have been seeing each other at least once a year since birth, when their rich parents all hang out together. There's a goth, a princess, a geek, a jock, a smart fat girl, and a kid. They see their parents playing dress-up and eviscerating a hooker, as parents are wont to do. They freak out and run away. Then they forget something, I don't know somebody's jacket or something, and go back to someone's house and find the pet velociraptor from the future that the fat girl wasn't supposed to get until she hit puberty, or something. They make the rounds and find out most of their parents all have crazy power-giving shit that they weren't supposed to know about yet.

So they go on the lam and try to avoid their parents while finding out more about the family supervillain business. Turns out the parents made a pact with giant ancient Easter Islandish aliens where they would help them eliminate ALL HUMANITY, and in exchange they would receive infinite power and immortality etc. etc. Then they had kids and decided that they would let their kids have the evil rewards instead. I think there was some guilt tripping and witholding of sex involved.

Anyway, long story short, stuff happens, one of the kids is a mole and eventually betrays the others, he dies and all the parents die and the giant aliens die and Captain America shows up, the end.

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― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

WORST SUMMARY EVAH

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Nah, 'sokay. However, you forgot about THE RETURN OF CLOAK & DAGGER!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Dan, if you have $7 kicking around, you should pick up the first collection (in its wee wittle manga book). No Cloak & Dagger in those 1st 6 issues, but good stuff nonetheless.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

I got volume 3 of the first series and read the whole lot back to back - it was really funny and entertaining and yes, Cloak and Dagger rock the house. Is it just me or is blonde rainbow girl lesbionically hot for Japanese goth girl?

I will wait for the new series to come out in a trade, I think

― Mark C (Markco), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

Am I the only one who finds glimpse-into-our-future stories really annoying?

Still love this comic but the Excelsior subplot is much more intriguing than the future Gert one.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I kind of want the entire thing to be about Excelsior! I mean, Turbo, Chamber, Ricochet and Julie Power all in the same book is basically pandering directly to me.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

The cover to #3 features Excelsior! (and how could you forget about DARKHAWK!), so maybe you'll get yr wishes.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

"Welcome to Excelsior, MAGGOTT - hope you survive!"

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

#1 implies that in the future Excelsior have taken over the world (or at least killed the superheroes), so maybe you'll get yr wishes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

I left out Darkhawk because I have absolutely no recollection of him. Who is he? Where would I have read about him before? And Tom is VERY OTM; GET MAGGOTT IN THIS BOOK STAT.

Um, how did I read this book three times and miss all implications about Excelsior's involvement in the future crisis? Where did you get that from, Jordan?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Jordan - unless you ARE Brian K. Vaughan!

Darkhawk explained hisself in the issue better than I could, in terms of his origin. In terms of his comic life, he was a start of his own Marvel series (by Danny Fingeroth & Mike Manley) that came out just before Marvel's quality control went subterranean; it lasted about 2 years - 6 months longer than Sleepwalker!! From what I've seen, there are a few folks nostalgic about the series; of course, from what I've seen, there are folks nostalgic about the Pope John Paul II one-shot, unempowered trophy wives, and newsprint. (OK, I'm the one nostalgic for the latter.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I just assumed that the "mysterious caller" offering to fund Excelsior in exchange for this and that JUST MIGHT be up to no good. I suppose he could just want someone do to his laundry, though.

(or um it could be totally unrelated to the future stuff, but WE WILL SEE, WON'T WE)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

There's a gigantic chasm of difference between "Excelsior take over the world" and "shadowy figure with a vested interest in preserving the apocalyptic future The Runaways are trying to prevent puts Excelsior in their path to deflect/hinder them".

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

potato, potato

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Right now, the entire thing with the future is laid at the feet of the reticent kid from the first 2 pages; Excelsior (and the people involved in it) didn't even come up as a footnote from future-What'sherface.

I really hope that this is a double-misdirect and The Runaways are actually villains in the future.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Oh, if you are jonesin' for a double-misdirect, you definitely need to read the first series ASAP, Dan.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, I forgot about that kid!

I wish vol. 2 was out and collected already.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

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*whew*, I feel much better having gotten that off of my chest.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I just read the first volume now, the kid/parent dynamics in the final story are phenomenal.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 10 June 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Has anyone else felt that after the first issue, volume 2 is of much spottier quality? Too much capricious misdirection, the reminder-dialogue to be much more blatant, the cliffhangers more frequently manipulative and less deepening of the backstory, and the art across the board worse.

― Leeeeeee (Leee), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

i just started this... can NOT deal with the art.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 23 September 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

What don't you like about it? The manga influence?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 23 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

the mouths.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 23 September 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

The mouths?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Who's the artist?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Alien lesbians: C/D?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

What do YOU think, Dan?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

By issue #12 the characters will be nothing but eye and you might as well be reading Seaguy.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Shapeshifting is always the answer to sexual identity issues.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

"Marry me!"
"I c-c-can't; I'm gay!"
"I HAVE BOTH MANBITS AND LADYBITS"
"WOOHOO IT'S BONIN' TIME!"

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

i can't deal with that particular way of drawing mouths so that they look like they're extending out of the person's face!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Um. My mouth is not an "innie".

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Haha! Me either.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Do you hate Mick Jagger, slocki?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Dear s1ocki, have I got the girl for you.

http://wwwimage.upn.com/shows/top_model4/images/models/christina/pic_main.jpg

― Leeeeeeeee (Leee), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

the characters all look like ducks!!

and if your mouth isn't an "innie" i'm seriously worried for you!! how do you eat?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

anyway, i don't like the way the artist draws faces, it distracts me from the rest of the comic.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Just CBR'd the first 18 series, it's pretty classic, but did anyone else find the big reveal/you-know-who-is-the-traitor thing collosally dissapointing?

Also, is the second vol worth the effort?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

YES. Better than vol 1. Especially because there is more CLOAK action. And perhaps the coolest Avengers villain ever makes a major appearance.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

I think it's become more episodic and less serial, for some reason. Possibly because I've been reading it monthly, whereas I read vol. 1 in cbr.

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

I'll definitely give it a try. The twist at the end kind of disturbed me, though. (Not to mention the, uh, graphic end to the big bad. Seemed somewhat tonally off -- not to mention emotionally throwaway -- compared to the kiddie hijinx of the previous issues.)

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

OMG WE GET TO DECIDE THE FATE OF THE RUNAWAYS!

(Whether the current storylines are continued, or if it'll restart with a new volume.)

― Obsessing over the unobtainable and nonexistent. (Leee), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

This is seriously one of the best superhero-ish comics that I've ever read. And slocki's nuts, the art is fantastic, some of the best I've seen in a mainstream comic in years.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

I mean, the faces are the best part! He gets amazing expressions, and the kids are both totally convincing in their bodies, mannerisms, clothing, etc. I mean, Gert, c'mon!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

Gert's my favorite.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

BKV sez he is secretly Gert!

― Obsessing over the unobtainable and nonexistent. (Leee), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

INDIE KIDS LIKE GERT SHOCKAH.

(NB she is my favourite too)

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

NOT AN INDIE KID, TOM.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

MARCHING BAND KIDS LIKE GERT SHOCKAH

Erm.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I think I'd rather be an indie kid.

TS: Chubby vol. 1 Gert vs. Sexed-up vol. 2 Gert

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I'm still jonesin' the goth girl, so I can't comment on Gert.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

HOTT JAPANESE EX-CATHOLIC SCHOOL GIRL GOTH.

― Obsessing over fetishes. (Leee), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Ding.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Where is the love for willowy blonde lesbian girls from outer space?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

That's a convincing argument.

― ('_') (Leee), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

argh i got vol 4 and not vol 3 in the post (%*&$£^*& amazon) and i looked this up and alex dies ): i liked alex. i knew he was the traitor, though. bugger. i hope he comes back. (it's comics, hey)

― tom west (thomp), Sunday, 29 January 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

two months til volume five? no fair

― tom west (thomp), Sunday, 29 January 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Read the first two (maybe three?) issues (and have skipped most of this thread, in order to act like I"m avoiding spoilers). Okay, fun. It's funny that I can imagine kids would love this, even though it completely set off all my kiddo alarms in terms of what I AS A KID would have liked. Like, if MY 12 YR OLD SELF had picked up #1, I would never have picked up #2, because, who cares, no explosions, no whatever, it's just the fruggin' Breakfast Club, but that's, I think, what an actual 12-yr-old (since when I was 12, I wasn't ACTUAL) would dig.
I'm chasing my own tail here.
I don't mind the art at all.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Kids who grew up watching The A-Team vs kids who grow up watching The O.C., maybe?

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, exactly.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

TERRY MOORE?

goonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng

― David R., Friday, 27 July 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

― Jordan, Friday, 27 July 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

goooooooooooooong

― David R., Friday, 27 July 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

No!!! I mean, Terry Moore is maybe sorta troubling but NOOOO HUMBERTO RAMOS!

At least the upside is that Ramos won't be on X-Men anymore?

― Mr. Perpetua, Friday, 27 July 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/10/sneak-peek-runaways-cast-by-humberto-ramos/

Wow... I thought his X-Men art was bad. This is Disney knock off bad.

― James, Friday, 11 January 2008 21:32 (seventeen years ago)

Chase went from a scrawny kid to a mini-Colossus! He should be about Victor's size.

― scampering alpaca, Friday, 11 January 2008 22:28 (seventeen years ago)

Sometimes Ramos makes me cry. Looking at this sneak peek is one of those times. Danke, Ramos, for single-handedly making me dread one of my favorite comics.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Saturday, 12 January 2008 00:27 (seventeen years ago)

Doesn't this news really belong on Sadface? :-P

― Mordechai Shinefield, Saturday, 12 January 2008 00:31 (seventeen years ago)

Victor, Karolina, Old Lace and Molly look great!

...Too bad about the others, though.

― HI DERE, Sunday, 13 January 2008 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

I hate to say it, but while this last issue was a decent Joss Whedon comic, it was a lousy Runaways comic. His time on Runaways can't come soon enough (especially since he takes forever to come out with a new issue).

― Mordy, Thursday, 21 February 2008 03:53 (seventeen years ago)

wait how did I miss the invocation of Terry Moore upthread

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

― HI DERE, Thursday, 21 February 2008 19:45 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Has anyone gotten to read the new issues yet? Moore is gone and apparently Runaways is finally back on track.

Not too happy about Old Lace, though. ):

― Duane Barry, Friday, 10 July 2009 20:48 (sixteen years ago)

who's writing it?

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Friday, 10 July 2009 20:53 (sixteen years ago)

Kathryn Immonen

― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Friday, 10 July 2009 21:06 (sixteen years ago)

I wanted to like that Hellcat mini she wrote, but she lost me completely.

― Beanbag the Gardener (WmC), Friday, 10 July 2009 21:10 (sixteen years ago)

I'm done with Runaways until/if Brian Vaughan takes it over again. Even Whedon sucked.

― Mordy, Friday, 10 July 2009 21:26 (sixteen years ago)

The tagline for the current storyline is "one will die, one will live again". Since BKV emphasised quite strongly that DEAD MEANS DEAD in this series, it kinda sucks they're turning to the trusted "no comic character ever stays dead" trope.

But I admit, I smiled when I saw the cover for the upcoming September issue (spoiler):

http://i.newsarama.com/preview_images/marvelnew/sept09/90_runaways_14.jpg

― Duane Barry, Friday, 10 July 2009 22:00 (sixteen years ago)

I like the logo.

― Beanbag the Gardener (WmC), Friday, 10 July 2009 22:45 (sixteen years ago)

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