The Runaways Thread

[PhotoJones]

I know. Everyone knows.

 

[Zoken]

If not him, then give Wheadon a quick lesson in "Meeting Deadlines" and let him keep the reigns. He's not that bad.

 

[PhotoJones]

I don't know if it's Whedon's fault so much as it may be Ryan's fault.

 

[Zoken]

The art's not all that special. It's not bad, I'm just not as in love with it as I was with Alphona's and Miya... who ever the hell did the fill-ins work.

 

[fifthfiend]

If not him, then give Wheadon a quick lesson in "Meeting Deadlines" and let him keep the reigns. He's not that bad.

He'd probably reply with a lesson in "I'm Joss Whedon and **** you."

 

[Zoken]

He'd probably reply with a lesson in "I'm Joss Whedon and **** you."

Maybe if we burn his Firefly Original Manuscripts...

 

[PhotoJones]

The art's not all that special. It's not bad, I'm just not as in love with it as I was with Alphona's and Miya... who ever the hell did the fill-ins work.

I like Miyazawa and Alphona a lot more, too, but Ryan's artwork is very detailed, as is Strain's coloring.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't think it's a problem with Ryan. He seemed to put New Excalibur out pretty regularly.

 

[PhotoJones]

Yeah, but his style's a LOT more meticulous now.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Really? Doesn't seem much more meticulous than what I saw in New Excalibur.

 

[PhotoJones]

Look again. The patterns on those 1900's costumes aren't put in by Strain. Those are all Ryan.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, and he put lots of detail into the costumes he drew for the Camelot denizens during "The Last Days of Camelot" in New Excalibur, too.

 

[PhotoJones]

Shut up. It's Ryan's fault.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't know. All of Whedon's comics are late or on slower schedules, but all of them could be the fault of the artists. Cassaday, Ryan, and Jeanty aren't the fastest of artists, especially Cassaday. I just don't think Ryan needs 3 months to complete every issue. Maybe it's a combination of Ryan and Whedon.

 

[PhotoJones]

I honestly will never understand how guys like Smith or Whedon can't complete their handful of issues on time. It's 22 pages of text. That should take a couple days' work, max.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I think Whedon's directing a movie at the same time or something. It does seem silly, all things considered.

 

[PhotoJones]

What movie?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Goners.

 

[PhotoJones]

The hell is that about?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Don't know. I haven't heard much about it besides the title.

 

[PhotoJones]

I'm bored with Whedon. I hope he tries something new.

 

[Dread]

Whedon probably is not the reason for the RUNAWAYS delays, but Ryan is. Still, much like Mark Millar, he also has the magical ability to find the slowest artists on the face of the earth, so eventually he may bare some responsibility for the lateness.

Just when Whedon will be over his Runaways training wheels, his run is over. It is astonishing, pun intended, how long a "6 issue run" has lasted, especially since he and Cassaday's "two year story" is on the verge of stretching into 4.

I'd love Vaughan back on RUNAWAYS, especially with the writer's strike killing the TV biz right now. I doubt he will, though. There's that whole, "you can't come home again" logic. Granted, that never stopped Claremont from returning to X-Men, or Peter David from returning to X-Factor or The Hulk...

 

[Anubis]

So, I dropped Runaways months ago and all i've missed is one issue?

 

[Specter313]

Goners.

The hell is that about?

Only thing I know is it's a "supernatural horror thriller."

And Whedon's been done with his writing part at least. Maybe he went through several rewrites, as is his wont to do in other projects, but he's been done with them now. Plus, I'm pretty sure that his for his first arc of Buffy came out on time, cause I remember getting them pretty quickly, and if there was a delay, it wasn't by much at all.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Buffy had a scheduled break after the last issue of that arc for a month. So even though it's not technically a delay because it's scheduled that way, that's a mother****ing delay out here in real time. Still, I don't think that was Whedon's fault.