Have all you good little childrens been reading Runaways? Because if you haven't you totally suck. I got the hardback of the series first run for Christmas this year from my comic geeky friend Jeff. He said I would be totally into it because the characters talk like me. I still don't know what the heck he's talking about, but I did so love the story. You see Runaways is about a group of teenagers who discover their parents are all into psycho super villainy, and they, like, run away. But they are also super heroes themselves... kind of. I dunno how to rightfully describe it, but heed my words! The comic is really good.
So Runaways was created by Brian K. Vaughn and Adrian Alphona, but the sucky thing is is that they are bolting with issue #24. Oh I guess I should say Runaways is on it's second series right now, and it's probably being sold in trades if you don't have it already. So run and buy buy buy!. Yeah so Vaughn and Alphona are leaving and considering they are responsible in large part to how much this book rocks my panties on a consistent basis, I am rightfully bummed. Or I WAS rightfully bummed. Until today!
You see there just so happens to be another really good writer working over at Marvel right now who is going to be finishing up his run on a well liked comic book that features Kitty Pryde kicking all kinds of derrier. That comic is Astonishing X-Men and that writer is world reknowned geek provisioner, Joss Whedon. Yeah Joss Whedon. He's the guy that created Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Faith the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Vampire with a Soul, Amy Acker and that weird Firefly show.
So let me state this clearly. Whedon is going to be leaving Astonishing X-Men to go and write Runaways. Yeah! So if you actually read runaways and maybe seen some Buffy (shut up DougieOnline) then you know how perfect these two tastes that will taste great together will be and all. You can read more about it HERE.
