Neat-O-Rama! Can't wait to read this issue! :D

(I knew there was a reason why I'm infatuated with BKV.)

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Joss' bitch | March 19, 13:25 CET

I'm still hoping to see BKV scripting some of the Buffy Season 8 comics, or any other Whedonverse project.

I mean, with him and Joss being such fanboys of each other, and BKV being one of the so very few none-exclusive comic creators left out there...

Niels | March 19, 13:44 CET

Man, I still need to buy the first run of Runaways. I keep forgetting to (and then, when I think about it/run into them, I'm broke :-p). Anyway, I'll make myself a reminder to pick up the backlog and start fresh with this new run.

GVH | March 19, 17:17 CET

Like I stated on another thread, I think Runaways is purely average.

When I read the first run, my immediate thoughts were, "Aww. It wants to be Buffy when it grows up."

It's amusing, I guess, but nothing I'd pick up on a regular basis. ...But still very shiny that Vaughan digs Joss, and that Joss digs Vaughan.

UnpluggedCrazy | March 19, 23:05 CET

UnpluggedCrazy - Haven't read Runaways, but have been reading both Y: The Last Man and Ex-Machina and think that they are fantastic. Have you read BKV's other stuff and liked it or just tried Runaways and found it not to your liking? Do you have any constructive criticism of Runaways? What did you like and not like?

ETA: Just think you came across as kind of rude and non-constructive, especially given that BKV is probably reading.

zeitgeist | March 20, 01:31 CET

I haven't read any Runaways apart from #14 on Thursday cause of the mention but I do really enjoy Y: The Last Man and Ex-Machina.

Simon | March 20, 02:13 CET

Yay!! Love Runaways. Still need to pick up the latest issue from my LCS though.

flightofserenity | March 20, 02:41 CET

zeitgeist, it seems I've been accidentally rude a lot lately. A thousand apologies!!! ^_^;;; I am just very opinionated.

(You would not believe the amount of times I've gotten in trouble with significant others because of that. Especially when it comes to politics. But we are totally not going there. Ever.)

And oh yeah, I think Vaughan is a great writer, I just don't care for Runaways. The problem with it is that it seems too aimed at teenagers: All of the plots seem stock, as do all of the characters...it's like The Breakfast Club, with a bunch of cookie cutter personalities thrown together with some vaguely pseudo-hip dialogue. (But thank God for the lack of cheesy 80's power ballads.)

Runaways isn't bad...it's just very average. It could be fixed quite easily; give the characters more flaws and more definining personalities than the standard clique-y ones, and make the dialogue less...I don't know, cute or fake hip. It doesn't seem that the current teen lingo is conveyed well, and it seems to like referencing pop culture just because referencing pop culture is cool (see also: The WB's Supernatural). I don't care about any of the characters, and the plot isn't woven together well enough to incite my interest...it could be easily fixed, and thus fulfill the potential that it has.

UnpluggedCrazy | March 20, 09:15 CET

I adore Runaways to death. Vaughan cracked a Whedon joke way back in the beginning of the first run, and then later in #18 (of that same first run) we got the letter from Mr. Whedon himself. I had a bit of a fangirl moment to see my fandoms collide like that.

Runaways also got me to start reading Marvel again, so props there. (This is before Astonishing X-People came out, I might add..)

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megaloo | March 20, 10:06 CET

I read the Runaways because I think it's good, I mean I wouldn't read it if I didn't. I do think the first "season" or "volume" what-have-you was far superior to this second volume. I started with Vol 2 Issue 1 and actually hated it and when I bitched at my comic book guy for recommending it he handed me a trade of the first series and that's what it took to get me hooked. I still like Y The Last Man better though that one reads better in trades than single issues.

I read #14 though and I totally missed the Joss reference. I'll have to read it again when I get home.

war_machine | March 20, 16:51 CET

UnpluggedCrazy - knew ou didn't intend it to come off that way and figured you had more to say on the matter :) Thanks for the clarification and the heads up on what to expect from Runaways.

zeitgeist | March 20, 22:22 CET

God. Just back checked this thread, cause it got its own category now, and there are only very few posts is it.

THat was definetely a cool meta-whedonesque thing.

Numfar PTB | September 15, 03:22 CET