Your irrational and wholly unjustified Molly-hate remains one of very few black marks on your otherwise sterling record of good taste.
Just admit to yourself that she's totally great, and emerge from your cave of Molly-hating delusion into the warm embrace of a glorious Molly-brightened reality.
My friend, you are far from the only one who dislikes Molly of the Runaways. Colossal Spoons and I regularly wish death and/or a variety of poxes on her. Others flock to our cause when the subject arises, as well.
Your irrational and wholly unjustified Molly-hate remains one of very few black marks on your otherwise sterling record of good taste.
Just admit to yourself that she's totally great, and emerge from your cave of Molly-hating delusion into the warm embrace of a glorious Molly-brightened reality.
Your irrational and wholly unjustified Molly-hate remains one of very few black marks on your otherwise sterling record of good taste.
Just admit to yourself that she's totally great, and emerge from your cave of Molly-hating delusion into the warm embrace of a glorious Molly-brightened reality.
RUNAWAYS #27: Technically late; issue #26 shipped May 2nd, which means it skipped June entirely. Some of us feared that the departure of BKV and Alphona would lead to late issues, and low and behold, the Whedon/Ryan team can't even get in halfway through a 6 issues run without delays. Surely of course this isn't Whedon's fault, that he always is paired with slowpoke artists, just like it isn't Mark Millar's fault that every comic he has written for the past half decade has eventually run late. But it is another sad trend that late books are more frequent than books on schedule, and yet NO company has as of yet developped a strategy that works to rectify it. Joe Q's Marvel shrugs thier shoulders and either denies it or seems puzzled that the EIC of America's #1 comic company would be expected to have an idea of how to correct a now-critical problem with the industry. DC's Dan DiDio attempted to fix the problem with an old idea (fill-in's), and failed miserably. If these guys were in charge of past enterprises, we'd still be struggling with the problems of sunfall and lack of indoor plumbing. Innovators they are not, I mean REAL innovation that isn't slapping a new title on an old story schtick and actually fixing something that plagues the industry. Maybe this is an overreaction to RUNAWAYS being merely a month late, which for some books is downright speedy, but this was a book that under some 3.5 years under BKV was late barely 3 times, so when it suddenly is late every other issue, it gets noticed. The story itself, however, is still good enough that one could almost justify the lateness.
Using the trinket they stole from Kingpin to flee his army of ninjas (and some cyber-angel guy), the Runaways wind up 100 years in the past (Wed, June 27th, 1907 to be exact). The Leapfrog displays some more sentience as it replays a holographic memory file of the Steins' and the Yolkes discussing the fact that they may have more of those "time trinkets" hidden about in various eras for their frequent time-jumps, usually good for jumps of some 50-100 years. The Runaways all react to things in various ways, with Karolina actually wanting to explore but the rest wanting to either travel home or at least not muck up the timestream too much, as Xavin and Victor fear. Shame they're not Kang, who apparently can recruit himself and not expect time to be F'd. The kids break cover to save people from a fire (so much for not interfering with history, but hell, it's not like Capt. Kirk didn't break "the prime directive" every other episode). Whedon, who has returned Chase to being a jokey jock with none of the intensity or intelligence of BKV's last arc, finally acknowledges that he is still in mourning after Gert's death, but aside for that acts like he did in Vol. 1, which is jarring. I suppose if asked about this, Whedon could mention a Paul Kersey line from DEATH WISH: "What do you expect me [Chase] to do; moan and groan for the rest of my life!?" for Chase, but he is my favorite member and I was hoping to see some natural growth from BKV's ending, not merely sending him back into a status quo like so many other characters. Whedon is even writing Xander again so there is no excuse to get Chase into that role here. Molly is somehow more annoying than under BKV but isn't too bad here, and Ryan's art is still solid as the team runs into another troupe of "Wonders" after meeting Eddie Gunnam (or "Stick Man") and his cabal of "Street Arabs" kids. There are other factions of Wonders here as the SECOND book from Marvel in which a heroine was almost raped this week and a younger version of the mecho-angel (Tristan) as well as Eddie batting for a more sinister team. The time travel also allows Whedon to have the kids fight the Pride again, or rather, the Yorkles (who they can't beat because that would undo stuff). As usual, Whedon's dialogue, Chase issues aside, is readable, fun, and matches the spunky tone of BKV, which was why he is the best fit for the book out of other A-Listers. I wonder if Tristan's early 20th century playmate, Lillie "Spieler" McGurty, is the old woman he is devoted to in 2007. The concept of having the Runaways go back in time fits their motif so this all is a fine romp. I am just waiting for the day when Whedon, in some comic book, writes a villain who isn't a complete moron (Ord) or a random collection of overused cliches posing as something original (Danger). Adjudicator at least looks cool and then there is "Maneater".
The cover, of course, is wonderful. We've had so many brilliant RUNAWAYS covers that it is easy to take them for granted, but this has been one of the best in a while, even for Chen. Still a shame that by the time Whedon works out the kinks onto hopping aboard this book, he will be gone, leaving it's fate in jeopardy. But, we have another 3 issues which, with another lateness inevitable, may mean that dilemma doesn't need to be looked at until October or November.
Just read the last issue, very very good. Could care less about some of the lines that Joss throw's in....but there is no denying that he is a great writer.
I'm really enjoying his run so far. The art isn't as good as Alphona's but it's still great. Their personalities need to move forward thought. Everything is just stalled or retread. Gert shows up again! let the girl rest for a while.
Gert only came back briefly in a holographic video feed. I didn't mind it. Longtime friends can't be forgotten. In fact, it is Whedon having Chase seem to act the way he did BEFORE she died that remains the major con on his run thus far. But, of course, IMO.
^Very true, I guess it is nice to see the older characters that go away.....
I just love Joss Whedon's writing and look forward to getting this each month.
Yeah, issue # 27 was definitely a really good read through and through. Loving it, loving it. Yeah, the reveal at the end definitely makes things VERY interesting and with this whole, time travel deal, could we possibly be seeing the return of Gert?
And Molly rules. The rest of you haters are just jealous that an 11 year old girl could beat you all up at the same time. Haters.
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