Runaway with me
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:18 pm
So has anyone been reading Marvel Comics' Runaways series? I got into the series with the very affordable digests to see what all the bus was about. I've just finished reading the third book and it fucking floored me, there were so many twists I never saw coming.
For those of you who haven't heard of it, it's a relatively new series written by Brian K Vaughan with pencils from Adrian Alphona (with Takeshi Miyazawa covering for #11-12). It's about five teenagers and one pre-teen whose rich and influential parents meet up once a year to supposedly discuss their charity work - at least that's what their kids think until they witness the twelve of them killing a young girl in a ritualistic sacrafice. The kids decide to make a break for it and turn their parents into the authorities but are stopped in their tracks when they discover that all of California is under their parents' thumbs. The only things the kids have to survive with whilst on the run are their own wits and "powers" derived from their parents - the scientists' kid takes off with some tech equipment, the sorcerers' kid steals a magic staff and so on.
It's very character driven with witty and naturalistic dialogue with a premise that can appeal to anyone who's ever been a teenager. It's without a doubt one of the best and most relevent Marvel series there's been in years, maybe even decades.
The first series ran for 18 issues and the first issue of the second series has just been released. The 18 issues of the first series have been collected into 3 full colour digests (priced $7.99 each) and according to Marvel's collection division there's a strong possibility of the 18 issues being collected into a high quality oversized hardcover.
For those of you who haven't heard of it, it's a relatively new series written by Brian K Vaughan with pencils from Adrian Alphona (with Takeshi Miyazawa covering for #11-12). It's about five teenagers and one pre-teen whose rich and influential parents meet up once a year to supposedly discuss their charity work - at least that's what their kids think until they witness the twelve of them killing a young girl in a ritualistic sacrafice. The kids decide to make a break for it and turn their parents into the authorities but are stopped in their tracks when they discover that all of California is under their parents' thumbs. The only things the kids have to survive with whilst on the run are their own wits and "powers" derived from their parents - the scientists' kid takes off with some tech equipment, the sorcerers' kid steals a magic staff and so on.
It's very character driven with witty and naturalistic dialogue with a premise that can appeal to anyone who's ever been a teenager. It's without a doubt one of the best and most relevent Marvel series there's been in years, maybe even decades.
The first series ran for 18 issues and the first issue of the second series has just been released. The 18 issues of the first series have been collected into 3 full colour digests (priced $7.99 each) and according to Marvel's collection division there's a strong possibility of the 18 issues being collected into a high quality oversized hardcover.
