Continuing the storytime of Marvel's 2000s teen heroes, we go from Wisconsin to Los Angeles where five teenagers, and one pre-teen girl, are about to have their lives turned upside down when they find out their parents' dark secret.Today will be Runaways #1-5Previous >>154084392
I'll be honest, of all the Runaways characters Nico is far and away my least favorite. I get "asian goth" means guys find her hot and girls find her cool visually but honestly I think she's a giant unstable bitch and really unlikable.
Issue 2
I liked this comic. Thanks.
Issue 3
>>154102733I think the first volume of Runaways holds up incredibly well because it's a tightly told and fairly complete story. The twists make sense and the clues are consistent going back to the first issue.The second volume I feel is weaker because it's more obvious that BKV didn't have things plotted out as much and was winging it a little more. The Whedon stuff isn't good. Volume 3 I feel has ideas that would have been better as a Defenders style book or something and not Runaways, at least under Moore. Immonen's run at the end is abysmal and practically unreadable.
>>154101906>God, you are so hot.Well they wasted no time establishing that.
>>154102878Yeah, I like parts of volume 2 but it's pretty clear it was never meant to continue past the first.
Issue 4
>>154103225The NYC arc was the best one because the fish out of water approach worked for the characters. I don't care about Victor which is the big problem with volume 2. In general it felt like Vaughan was told to integrate it more into the MU to increase sales.
>>154101697this series is so overrated, it's so painfully 2000s
Issue 5
>>154101697bump, Nico best girl
>>154101796Personally speaking Gerts my least favorite. I met way too many people like her IRL. Dyed hair, an overeducated smartass, and has to make everything about politics? Hard to believe this was published in 2003.
>>154101825Rare to see an abusive father who's less physically impressive than his son.
>>154103785Absolutely not and pages like this are why. She's mentally unhinged, jumps onto anyone who gives her even the slightest bit of positive attention or validation or really just as a form therapy when she's stressed out and anxious while simultaneously acting as if she's in charge of everyone which tends make her a giant drama magnet.I honestly think they need to eventually say she has some form of BPD because she comes off as at least mildly borderline. Definite cluster B shit.
>>154101887Really? I actually like Nico.
>>154103875When re-reading through all of this I wound up liking Gert a lot more than I expected or originally did. She's mouthy and opinionated but she's also a grounded and a lot less annoying or pushy than you'd expect her type of character to be. I think her and Chase are the real heart of the book and Runaways suffered a lot with her gone.Doesn't excuse bringing her back as her self-insert though.
>>154102966>Pet pigGert. Arent' your parents jewish?
By that I mean Rowell bringing her back as her self-insert.
>>154102803How does Chase know Bible verses if his parents are Atheists?
>>154103438I loved this page as a teenager for obvious reasons. Shame post-Disney Marvel comics would never greenlight a joke like this nowadays.
>>154103497I like Nico because of the contradiction, she's a christian, who uses black magic, which is a big nono in the Bible.
>>154103895completely valid and fair points, but she was like a teenage fantasy come to life when I was reading it at 12-13, the drama is nothing suprising or excessive in these kinds of teen books imo. Real best girl is obviously Gert 's dino Lacey
>>154104050>>154103348I like the hints in the early comics that Chase has a crush on Karolina. He had to have been heartbroken when she came out of the closet
>>154101749>MMO using heroes in-universeThat makes sense but I have to wonder about the feasibility. I wonder if the FF have to sell their likeness since they're just people unlike Spidey who can't really make any cash off of it or Cap, who you'd realistically need the US Gov's say to use. Wonder what the over-under is on that kind of stuff.
>>154103895lmao this coalburning whore is the bitch I keep hearing people waifuing when talking about Marvel
That's it for today. Next time we're going away form Runaways for a bit to do another series that started at virtually the same time. So it'll be New Mutants #1-4.Basically for the next week or so I'm going to alternate between Runaways one day and New Mutants the next so both will finish at roughly the same time.
>>154104130Bro, at various points she's going to jump on Chase, Victor, currently Karolina (Rowell canonizing her fanfiction) and there may be a few others there I'm forgetting.
>>154104158Shame it didn't work out with victor, he's the closest anyone in the comic got to 'boyfriend material'.
>>154103304I came around on Victor after a bit but yeah, he was a bit too hard to accept at first. This dumbass group getting a hand on Ultron's spawn felt like too big a jump.But like I said, I did come around on him after some time. Enough to the point that King bastardizing him annoyed me greatly.
I remember liking this reading it as a teenager, but I'm not liking it now. I'm not sure if it is because of its own merits, or associating the 2000s with Marvel comics I've disliked I've read in the years between.
>>154104537I think it holds up a lot better than I expected. The big problem I have is that it tries a bit too hard to ape Whedon's tone but seeing as Jemas' ideal of what he wanted from comics was Buffy I guess it makes sense.
>>154103510The robot head feels familiar, but my first guess doesn't have antennae and seems weird for an American comic to reference, and Bender is farther off in design. Is it from something earlier both are referencing and I'm not culturally aware enough to know?
>>154103957Could be he's just copying something you see in TV or movies or something where someone cites a Bible verse when they're in an "oh shit I'm about to die" situation. That or he's just more knowledgable about things than you'd expect. Eithe would be on point for him.
>>154103929>Doesn't excuse bringing her back as her self-insert though.Or giving Chase a man bun.
>>154101737STUNNINGANDBRAVE
I'm an idiot and somehow never picked up on Chase's fistigons being a Rage Against the Machine reference.
>>154103875turns out those people existed forever.
>>154101887I don't dislike Nico but she hard carried by her aesthetic. She is to the runaways what Magik is to the new mutants.
>>154105523>it tries a bit too hard to ape Whedon's toneWhedon really is the worst thing to ever happen to the entertainment media, I blame all the retards who unironically watched that garbage show Buffy
>>154103895I like the impulsiveness. Shame it will never come back due to how ironclad lgbt relationships are nowadays.
>>154104134>>154104091X-gene scanners must have been on the fritz
>>154105523Which makes it truly ironic that Whedon himself killed it with his arc being heavily delayed
>>154109545Even ignoring the delays, it's just a meh story. All it's really got going for it is Michael Ryan's art and I think that's the last major thing he's drawn too for some reason.
>>154101722>my cousin's gf is a retard kek
>>154102059Red skull put on the same level as some street level thug like Electro...the humiliation
>>154106891damn now I see it too but can't imagine what it could be
>>154101764richfags don't give their kids an allowance?
>>154110848If they sell drugs in the community, presumably they don't want their son to develop unproductive habits in favor of exploiting other's habits.
