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While watching Marvel’s Runaways on the tv, I felt the urge to read more of the Runaways. I found the story quality went down a bit, which I was sad about.
Book Review: Runaways Deluxe Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan
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Title & Author: Runaways Deluxe Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan
Genre: Comic, Fantasy
Release Date: December 6, 2006
Series: Runaways Deluxe
Publisher: Marvel
Synopsis
Teenage fugitives Nico, Gert, Karolina, Chase and Molly are survivors. After learning their parents were secretly super villains, the kids discovered special skills of their own and toppled their parents’ criminal empire, the Pride. Now, the Runaways meet Victor Mancha, the unknowing son of another infamous super villain, as a meddling ex-super hero support group tries to force the Runaways off the streets! Meanwhile, one Runaway deals with an unexpected legacy, and the team helps Cloak and Dagger hunt a stalker…which leads to confrontations with the New Avengers and the X-Men.
I give Runaways Deluxe Volume 2 by Brain K. Vaughan four out of five hearts because I felt the story quality had dropped between volume 1 and 2 and the drawing style changed through out the book.
Nico has taken the lead after the loss of Alex and is a bit of bitch about it. But it turns out she does it because it is the only way she can deal with the whole thing. For all of them it is sort of hard with their parents gone. They seem less and less traumatised by the events and I am not sure if I like it.
I felt that because the whole Pride situation was finished the story went from being something original to just another X-men comic or something. It was fun to see the inclusion of the other Marvel properties, but I also wasn’t too much interested because that was not why I was reading the comic.I give Runaways Deluxe Volume 2 by Brain K. Vaughan four out of five hearts because I felt the story quality had dropped between volume 1 and 2 and the drawing style changed through out the book.
Nico has taken the lead after the loss of Alex and is a bit of bitch about it. But it turns out she does it because it is the only way she can deal with the whole thing. For all of them it is sort of hard with their parents gone. They seem less and less traumatised by the events and I am not sure if I like it.
I felt that because the whole Pride situation was finished the story went from being something original to just another X-men comic or something. It was fun to see the inclusion of the other Marvel properties, but I also wasn’t too much interested because that was not why I was reading the comic.
Overall a good comic to move on with and I am curious about the later parts in the series.
The TV-Show
In the tv show the parents have a much more open role and are more flushed out than they are in the comic books. That is something I like, but a lot of the added stuff, like removal of Molly’s parents, the addition of the Jonah character. I find these odd things and maybe at the end of season 1 I will understand, but up until now I do not understand those choices yet.
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