Runaways issue #1

[dahlia_moon]

per weber_dubois22's request, who wanted to see Alex Wilder's introduction. These are the first six pages of issue #1.



















(Egads, how very much I want this comic to be continued. Or a movie would be nice. But that'd be asking for too much.)

Comments

Re: Alex Wilder!

[drmcninja]

It speaks to the magnitude of his work here when people compare him to Whedon and Joss comes up lacking.

Re: Alex Wilder!

[mrstatham]

It's not that Whedon's a bad writer as such, but I don't think he was suited for Runaways. I don't think the Ascended Fanboy aspect of his appointment as writer helped either, but to me, he just.. Changed up the formula a little too quickly and a little too severely. I know that a big ol' shake-up's what a series needs sometimes, but we went from a relatively grounded team of kids with powers dealing with usually low-level threats in LA to having them flung into New York, dealing with the Kingpin, and having some ridiculous high-concept time travel adventures where Whedon deliberately fucked with the dynamic of the team and tortured one of the characters for a purpose he was never going to explain himself.

Re: Alex Wilder!

[auggie18]

Yeah. Generally speaking, I love me some Whedon, but his run on Runaways was sorta lack luster. He sorta missed the point. Though not as badly as the "YOU ARE THE NEXT GENERATION OF SUPERHEROES MOLLY AND OLD TIMEY GIRL."


It says something that my favorite thing about Joss Whedon's run was his making Chase into pot. Because that sorta worked.