Runaways Thread

DeVryGuyDeVryGuy Registered User regular
edited February 2008 in Graphic Violence
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I'm all caught up on this now, so since we don't have a thread for it, I thought I would start one.

Plot Synopsis (from Wikipedia)
Nico Minoru, Gertrude Yorkes, Chase Stein, Karolina Dean, Molly Hayes, and Alex Wilder meet at their families' annual gathering, where they see their parents performing the ritual sacrifice of a girl.[3] The teenagers run away, but before they go, each learns of their true heritage and takes weapons or discovers powers they didn't know they had. The runaways retreat to an underground hideout they call "the Hostel", a mansion buried during an earthquake.

So anyways, uh, there seemed to be a gap of information between issue 24 and 25.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Man I dont like the art on that digest cover. Gert's too skinny and Chase's nose is all weird.

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  • DondumsDondums Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Zombified Runaways like to eat dinosaurs.

    True story.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Neliwood wrote: »
    Zombified Runaways like to eat dinosaurs.

    True story.

    Someone needs to put up a scan of this page.

    Also, replace the OP picture with... I dunno... this?

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  • DeVryGuyDeVryGuy Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Neliwood wrote: »
    Zombified Runaways like to eat dinosaurs.

    True story.

    Someone needs to put up a scan of this page.

    Also, replace the OP picture with... I dunno... this?

    What? The very first thing to pop up on GIS not good enough?

    Yeah, ok, replacing...

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Now my comment about the art makes no sense!

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  • HooraydiationHooraydiation Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Yeah, what's with drawing Gert skinny in some pictures and hyper-bloated in others? Her body changed like a teenage girl's during puberty!

    Even though it's not really representative of her, this is still my favorite picture of her. So adorable.
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  • deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Jo Chen can't draw fat girls.

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Damnit Gert was never supposed to be that fat

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Does this need a spoiler tag? Probably not, since it's just a throwaway sight gag, so...

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Ash looks clean-shaven as a newborn's ass.

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  • DondumsDondums Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    The best part is, we get the panel(s) with the Blob too.

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  • Cosmic SombreroCosmic Sombrero Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    So, I didn't like issue 25 all that much. It just didn't feel like the Runaways I know.
    Who was the guy alongside Punisher?

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  • Toji SuzuharaToji Suzuhara Southern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Jo Chen can't draw fat girls.

    You know, Chen got better at drawing her weight right before she you knowed. One of the covers was actually pretty accurate.

    I liked how, in the last arc, Chase looked like Mello from Death Note:

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    So, I didn't like issue 25 all that much. It just didn't feel like the Runaways I know.
    Who was the guy alongside Punisher?
    Nobody knows!

    Also, I am angry that Whedon killed Pusher Man.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I have a confession to make. I... I don't like Chase all that much. Sorry.

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  • Toji SuzuharaToji Suzuhara Southern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    I have a confession to make. I... I don't like Chase all that much. Sorry.

    I like that he can't really do anything. After those fistagons were destroyed, he was pretty much left without a role. It fit his character well.

    I... never really liked him, either, though. He's okay as far as the Runaways go. When you take him out of the context of the book, he's better than many other characters in comics, so... whatever, I guess.

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  • The_LightbringerThe_Lightbringer Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    I have a confession to make. I... I don't like Chase all that much. Sorry.

    He was much more interesting with his fistigons and super gadgets

    Although frog pilot and raptor master chase is still much better than sad and depressed emo chase.

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    I have a confession to make. I... I don't like Chase all that much. Sorry.

    Chase is vying with Karolina for my second favorite character (Nico being number 1), and even I can understand why someone wouldn't like him.

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  • TehSpectreTehSpectre Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I think Gert will always be my favorite character with Nico a close second.

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    See, I haaaaaaaaaaated Gert, so...there's my horrible Runaways confession.

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  • TehSpectreTehSpectre Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Blackjack wrote: »
    See, I haaaaaaaaaaated Gert, so...there's my horrible Runaways confession.
    Well then, you're lucky I suppose.
    I will just continue to hope that she can somehow be revived, hell maybe they can transfer her consciousness into Old Lace or something. I'll take anything at this point. T.T

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  • HooraydiationHooraydiation Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Everyone hates at least one of the teenage archetypes, usually because of something that happened in high school.

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  • MiSTieOtakuMiSTieOtaku Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I feel all weird about Runaways. Everyone keeps saying, "You need to check this out. It's so awesome!" But when I look at an issue in the shop, I just release this big, sigh-like, meh. I don't know, usually something grabs me right away but Runaways has yet to make me truly interested in it. Maybe there are just way too many culture references for my taste, or that it isn't as 'pulp' as the other Marvel Comics. Maybe I'll grab the first volume and see if I like it or not. God knows I need to actually read it before I start making any assumptions.

    By the way...
    Is Chase betraying the rest of the group? I just looked at the Wikipedia thing but stealing the Staff of One and disabling Victor? Is there some plan that he's got going that I'm not seeing or is he actually turning bad?

    Oh, another by the way. Has Civil War been mentioned or had any immediate effect lately on the characters? I doubt they give a damn about Cap's death but is there anything else? Have they run into one of the Avengers? Has Iron Man tried to kill them? S.H.I.E.L.D.?

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  • HooraydiationHooraydiation Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    There was a Runaways/Young Avengers miniseries that focused on what the two did during the Civil War.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I feel all weird about Runaways. Everyone keeps saying, "You need to check this out. It's so awesome!" But when I look at an issue in the shop, I just release this big, sigh-like, meh. I don't know, usually something grabs me right away but Runaways has yet to make me truly interested in it. Maybe there are just way too many culture references for my taste, or that it isn't as 'pulp' as the other Marvel Comics. Maybe I'll grab the first volume and see if I like it or not. God knows I need to actually read it before I start making any assumptions.

    By the way...
    Is Chase betraying the rest of the group? I just looked at the Wikipedia thing but stealing the Staff of One and disabling Victor? Is there some plan that he's got going that I'm not seeing or is he actually turning bad?

    Oh, another by the way. Has Civil War been mentioned or had any immediate effect lately on the characters? I doubt they give a damn about Cap's death but is there anything else? Have they run into one of the Avengers? Has Iron Man tried to kill them? S.H.I.E.L.D.?

    The Chase thing was dealt with 2 issues ago. It's part of why I don't like him.

    They were being screwed with by the Actually Evil part of the Civil War. (As in, the more evil than Tony).
    We have not seen anything come out of that, although a Skrull did technically help a Kree, so something interesting might go.

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  • smokmnkysmokmnky Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Ok so I'm like 6 pages in on the first book, why was I not informed of the awesomeness that is this series? Does it stay this good?

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  • deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    smokmnky wrote: »
    Ok so I'm like 6 pages in on the first book, why was I not informed of the awesomeness that is this series? Does it stay this good?
    No, no it doesn't.

    It gets better.

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  • smokmnkysmokmnky Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Holy freaking crap, they break into Chase's parents shed, fight breaks out, the dinosaur goes all apeshit, how can it get any better?

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    It gets so much better.

    Issue 10 (spoilars!) :
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    And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

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  • DondumsDondums Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Jo Chen can't draw fat girls.

    You know, Chen got better at drawing her weight right before she you knowed. One of the covers was actually pretty accurate.

    I liked how, in the last arc, Chase looked like Mello from Death Note:

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    I haven't read the manga but I recently caught up on the Death Note anime.
    I must say, it kicks ass. Sorry to go OT.

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Jo Chen can't draw fat girls.

    You know, Chen got better at drawing her weight right before she you knowed. One of the covers was actually pretty accurate.

    That's false.
    The last cover Jo Chen did with Gert on it was volume 2 issue 4, and it's the normal "super tall and thin" Gert.

    The issue I think you're thinking off, with Gert standing in the giant Spider-Man mask (issue 11 of volume 2) was done by James Jean

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  • Toji SuzuharaToji Suzuhara Southern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Blackjack wrote: »
    Jo Chen can't draw fat girls.

    You know, Chen got better at drawing her weight right before she you knowed. One of the covers was actually pretty accurate.

    That's false.
    The last cover Jo Chen did with Gert on it was volume 2 issue 4, and it's the normal "super tall and thin" Gert.

    The issue I think you're thinking off, with Gert standing in the giant Spider-Man mask (issue 11 of volume 2) was done by James Jean
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    It was longer ago than I thought it was, but I was talking about the Free Comic Book Day cover.

    James Jean's Runaways covers were kind of crappy, considering his cover pedigree.

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  • smokmnkysmokmnky Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Blackjack wrote: »
    It gets so much better.

    Issue 10 (spoilars!) :
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    Runaways10p20.jpg

    And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

    Holy crap I just got to that part, that was awesome

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  • smokmnkysmokmnky Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Fucking Alex!

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    On a side note, you don't lick chocolate bars. You chew on them. Like a man.

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  • Chrono PaladinChrono Paladin Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Blackjack wrote: »
    Jo Chen can't draw fat girls.

    You know, Chen got better at drawing her weight right before she you knowed. One of the covers was actually pretty accurate.

    That's false.
    The last cover Jo Chen did with Gert on it was volume 2 issue 4, and it's the normal "super tall and thin" Gert.

    The issue I think you're thinking off, with Gert standing in the giant Spider-Man mask (issue 11 of volume 2) was done by James Jean
    FCBD-runaways-CMYK.jpg

    It was longer ago than I thought it was, but I was talking about the Free Comic Book Day cover.

    James Jean's Runaways covers were kind of crappy, considering his cover pedigree.

    Man, those claws are ridiculously gigantic.

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  • HeatwaveHeatwave Come, now, and walk the path of explosions with me!Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Blackjack wrote: »
    Jo Chen can't draw fat girls.

    You know, Chen got better at drawing her weight right before she you knowed. One of the covers was actually pretty accurate.

    That's false.
    The last cover Jo Chen did with Gert on it was volume 2 issue 4, and it's the normal "super tall and thin" Gert.

    The issue I think you're thinking off, with Gert standing in the giant Spider-Man mask (issue 11 of volume 2) was done by James Jean
    FCBD-runaways-CMYK.jpg

    It was longer ago than I thought it was, but I was talking about the Free Comic Book Day cover.

    James Jean's Runaways covers were kind of crappy, considering his cover pedigree.

    Man, those claws are ridiculously gigantic.
    How the fuck do they come out of his wrists without cutting up his hand?!

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  • DeVryGuyDeVryGuy Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Heatwave wrote: »
    Blackjack wrote: »
    Jo Chen can't draw fat girls.

    You know, Chen got better at drawing her weight right before she you knowed. One of the covers was actually pretty accurate.

    That's false.
    The last cover Jo Chen did with Gert on it was volume 2 issue 4, and it's the normal "super tall and thin" Gert.

    The issue I think you're thinking off, with Gert standing in the giant Spider-Man mask (issue 11 of volume 2) was done by James Jean
    FCBD-runaways-CMYK.jpg

    It was longer ago than I thought it was, but I was talking about the Free Comic Book Day cover.

    James Jean's Runaways covers were kind of crappy, considering his cover pedigree.

    Man, those claws are ridiculously gigantic.
    How the fuck do they come out of his wrists without cutting up his hand?!

    In that picture the first claw actually cuts a good 60% of the way through his index finger. Well past where the bone should be.

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  • DVGDVG No. 1 Honor Student Nether Institute, Evil AcademyRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    So yeah, Runaways 28 was probably the first issue since Whedon took over that I really liked.

    Though it sucks having to wait 2 goddamn months to get the next issue.

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Yeah, 28 was better than 27 which was better than 26. By the end of his arc I may actually like what he's doing.

    Of course, I take that statement back if
    He kills Nico and/or revives Gert

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