This is one of the best Secret Wars (2015) tie-ins I had the pleasure to read (along with Mighty Defenders which was sadly only two issues). It easily runs circles around the much better selling A-Force for example, but in my opinion narrowly beats titles like Inferno too.
It really deserved more attention on its own merits, but unfortunately titling it Runaways sealed its fate before the first issue came out. Which is a bloody shame.
The writing is good. The art fits the tone (and averts the one female bodytype & sameface syndrome plaguing for example the aforementioned A-Force). The story is basic but doesn't feel aimless and knows how to use its tropes to not feel like cliches most of the time.
Bottom line, I would read more of this. Alas it wasn't meant to be.
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OK. I'll be controversial:
This is one of the best Secret Wars (2015) tie-ins I had the pleasure to read (along with Mighty Defenders which was sadly only two issues). It easily runs circles around the much better selling A-Force for example, but in my opinion narrowly beats titles like Inferno too.
It really deserved more attention on its own merits, but unfortunately titling it Runaways sealed its fate before the first issue came out. Which is a bloody shame.
The writing is good. The art fits the tone (and averts the one female bodytype & sameface syndrome plaguing for example the aforementioned A-Force). The story is basic but doesn't feel aimless and knows how to use its tropes to not feel like cliches most of the time.
Bottom line, I would read more of this. Alas it wasn't meant to be.