yupyup brave the low tide to ride the big wave… so far the best part of the new story arc was chase and victor’s view on zombie outbreaks “‘c’mon you never played a zombie RPG before?.. we’ll start at 100 points a kill. you with me victor?’ ‘Yeah!’”… and Taichi i may not know who you are but you have a good view on comicbook matters so… welcome back
I’m a comic nutter.
I don’t read everything, but I usually know what’s going on.
I love secondary characters, team books, and sidekicks.
i just re-read volumes 6 and 7 (the whedon story) and i may just be nitpicking… but it’s made painfully obvious that molly is indeed some form of telepath… she basically foresees multiple events throughout the whedon story, like ‘she hulk’s’ scampi not shrimp, OL saving chase, chase returning with weapons… it’s so obvious innit?.. imma go back a little further so as to gather more evidence
Runaways is the Old Yeller of Marvel Comics. For the love of Odin please put this once good comic out of its misery Joe.
^ dude i can’t tell… is that peyton manning in yur avatar?.. if so are you a naptowner like your man right here?.. oh yeah… the evidence of molly’s TK powers is mounting… she easily found that reversing DJ val’s song returned everyone back to normal… i mean that’s standard stuff yeah, but she’s 11…
I just got my hands on the first four issues of Terry Moore’s Runaways. (Borrowed 'em from a friend who found them all in a quarter bin some time ago.) Those were pretty good, I thought. The first couple issues were kind of average but issues three and four seemed promising. I enjoyed what I’ve read so far more than Whedon’s.
Humberto Ramos’ art doesn’t look as good as it used to, though. Still generally gets the job done, but his storytelling could be improved if he just reined in his flashiness a bit. The inker on his Runaways doesn’t seem as good as Wayne Faucher, either.
On a semi-related note, I also borrowed and read the first four issues of Moore’s run on Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane. This one wasn’t as good as his Runaways. I had no idea what he was doing with the series in relation to what Sean McKeever did. It seems like it’s meant to be a reboot, ignoring lots of what the original SMLMJ series established. But what is the point of rebooting an out-of-continuity, alternate universe, young reader-friendly series that only lasted about 28 issues in the first place? I don’t get that. That alone wouldn’t bother me so much if the new stories were still interesting, but I didn’t think much of them. The issues just lack the melodrama and fast pacing that allowed McKeever’s series to keep my interest.
yeah, Ramos’ work was a lot cleaner when he was pencilling Impulse. dunno why he started doing the extreme angles and forced facial expressions. Everybody looks like they’re in constant pain.
Yes.
No.
Yes the book is not the same without McKeever. :sad:
If only Alphona would have stayed, it would have been at least pretty to look at.
On spidermancrawlspace.com there’s a podcast interview with Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz from a little while back. DeFalco talked about ways that have been discussed over the years to ‘save’ Spider-Girl. Ideas were thrown around about changing either DeFalco or Ron Frenz on the book.
DeFalco said comics are a funny thing. You can get a high profile / really talented writer on a book that you’d think would be able to continue a series and possibly even increase sales. For some reason however, sometimes this doesn’t always work out. It’s the same deal with the artists, but this is mostly true for the writers.
In the end they figured that whatever it was that DeFalco and Ron Frenz were doing on Spider-Girl was why the book had a cult following and decided never to change that.
The reason I bring this up is because you have two examples where putting a high profile writer on a book just didn’t work out. I mean Whedon on Runaways, THE WHEDON of Astonishing X-Men and Buffy, you’d think that would be a perfect match. Moore of Strangers in Paradise on SLMJ? Instant classic right? And then the books come out and they are just not what everyone was expecting.
Different strokes by different writers I guess, the writers want to write the series their way, but that doesn’t work all the time it seems 
Well, I think commitment is a big part of it. Whedon only committed to do the six issues. It’s tough to do something majestic when you know you’re basically writing a story that goes in between longer stories by two other writers - a placeholder of sorts, something that’s essentially just meant to keep the brand alive in the meantime. If Whedon had been able to do an extended run with carte blanche on the characters, who knows what could have happened.
I think it’s quite telling that on the dustjacket of the hardcover edition, Joss Whedon’s name is bigger and bolder than the actual title of the comic.
Now with Terry Moore’s SMLMJ, I am not convinced the average Marvel reader has ever even heard of Strangers in Paradise. I doubt the readership expected anything other than the new writer to regurgitate McKeever’s formula. I’m kinda curious, though, about what Strangers in Paradise fans think about Moore’s Marvel work. I wonder if his name is recognizable enough that he actually brings his readership with him to these smaller-name mainstream titles?
^yes it all comes down to commitment… high profile writers and artists either can’t or won’t do too good of a job if they are already aware that thier stint on whatever they are currently working on is a ‘limited run’… see wat i did there?
Okay, so the new creative team, and the latest issue give me hope for the future of volume 3.
it’s actually a GOOD issue. Molly gets to chill with the X-Men (with hilarious results). pretty good done in one, and I hope we get more like it.
Yeah it was good but in the second story, did anyone else notice the nico/kar pairing happen suddenly?
I mean I’ve rooted for it, but now it seems forced. Xavin is still alive not dead. It feels like I missed an issue
i haven’t picked up the new issue yet… but it’s nice to hear good things… the cover preview in the back of the last issue made me kinda doubtful…
I picked that up too.
dunno, Nico/Kar seemed likely, looks like the new team wanted to move ahead with it.
I hope Xavin is still alive.
Actually the back up is by a different writer James Asmus. And I hope they don’t move forward with a real Nico/Karolina pairing, I just realized reading that issue that Nico would have literally gone through the entire surviving cast save the younger ones, if she did hook up with Karolina. And I would hope that something new could be done with her besides recycling her dating a team mate. Also I miss Xavin and his/her gender confusing self.
Still, I hope the next writer Kathryn Immonen does the book justice, although I fear recycling stuff BKV is still the thing that may kill this book.
my favorite Xavin moment was when he/she met Hulkling. I knew it would be crazy, but I wasn’t expecting it to be written so well.