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By: What got me into comics and what kept me « The ramblings of a ether fueled fool

Sat, 10 May 2008 19:35:19 +0000

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By: Valoharth

Valoharth — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:54:53 +0000

When I first saw the second question my first thought was to Runaways but as I thought about it more I came up with what I did. I still count Runaways as a milestone in my comic book readership because it was the first book to official introduce me to BKV which lead me getting back into Y and Ex Machina.

By: Hudson Phillips

Hudson Phillips — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:08:01 +0000

Oh, that’s right… I forgot about the Marvel Boy thing… that was a really intense story. There was a lot of great moments in those books. I wish I could track them all down.

And as cool as Night Thrasher’s skateboard was, I do remember thinking, even at the time how lame it was that he was riding it on gravel. They seemed to have dropped the skateboard thing pretty quickly. In a lot of ways he was kind of like a black Batman though… ah… nostalgia.

And yeah, I picked up the Runaways HC vol.1 edition and it was awesome. I prefer the digest sized books for reading, but the hardcover had some of the best “special features” I’ve seen in a book – I learned a lot about story-telling & pitching from Vaughan’s inclusion of his Runaways proposal.

By: kwoktalk

kwoktalk — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:41:10 +0000

I was a huge NW fan when it first started out. Night Thrasher was the coolest thing to me and Marvel Boy’s abusive father and ultimate death was a huge thing to see as a kid.

Have you seen the HC Runaway editions? I ended up selling off my pocket sized ones to get those.