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

[weber_dubois22]

Alex Wilder is King. Thanks for posting this ♥

[akodo_rokku]

I can only assume that they didn't just use Sue's 90s costume and in fact came up with a costume that's signifigantly more modest because her 90s costume is THAT unbelievable.

[akodo_rokku]

Also, Donald Glover should play Alex in the movie, am I right?

Alex Wilder!

[jazzypom]

So much love for this series. I liked the fact that he had an afro, and it's free flowing and easy, the fact that he was a geek, and his character was so complex that I wasn't even mad when **SPOILER**.




Normally, I'd suck the spit from my teeth with rancour and go, "Had to be the brother, huh?" but Vaughan wrote him so well.

But still, I wish they'd put black girls in comics like this - not that I begrudge Alex and Nico (I don't, because they were GOOD characters who just happened to be poc- and I mean 'good' as in well rounded, et al) but you don't see teenage black girls much, and that's a shame.

But still, I only have love for the original Runaways. I'd only hope the movie (if it were to be made) was half as complex and rounded like the original volume of the comic is.

[biod]

I bought the first volume on a whim and have to say I was a little dissapointed.
I've seen a lot of great scans from later appearances, so I'm still interested, but the interest is soured somewhat.

[eyz]

Haha :P
This was fun!

Also, I totally love the art! Fun and colorful^^

[lorriek]

Last year I found most of the Runaways digests super-cheap at Borders' going out of business sale (and bought the rest at Amazon), and read them all during the Christmas holidays. I highly recommend the first two volumes (which technically end with Whedon's run, which I didn't think it was horrible, even if I'm not sure what the point of his arc was). IMO, don't bother with volume 3 unless you are a completist.

[majingojira]

Ah, this was the book that marked my real entry into comics. I heard the concept and BAM, I had to know more.

Thanks to Blair Buttler's review on Attack of the Show of all things.

I'm looking forward to their appearance in Avengers Academy. Anyone else looking forward to that?

(AND I hope that they return and help the AA kids against Briggs when he's exposed to be the villain that he is).