Saturday, November 29, 2003

Runaways #7

Writer: Brian K. Vaughn
Art: Adrian Alphona
published by Marvel Comics

Runaways is a great fucking book. The concept alone just rocks. A bunch of kids find out their parents are supervillains, then set out to take 'em down. Then, since it's a sooperhero book, they find out some of 'em have strange powers.
Yup, it's based around the conceit that all kids think their parents are evil.
It's not that simple though. The Pride, the group that the parents are members of, think of themselves as heroes. They do evil things like human sacrifice, but they believe they're doing good.
Honestly not much happens in this ish, except some talking and the kids foiling a convenience store robbery. Sure, it sounds like typical Nu-Marvel, but it ain't. This is about as good as it gets.
Dammit, they need to put out a trade of this so I can hook more people on this book. Like, NOW.