Starfish's Bowl

hellyeahteensperheroes:

brevoortformspring:

Sounds as though you’re talking about RUNAWAYS here. To date, we’ve released one OGN, with another one on the way. So it’s early days in terms of working out what works the best for us and what doesn’t. We’re going to need for that line to get consistently successful before we expand it and do a lot more. Even then, the difficulty with doing a RUNAWAYS OGN is similar to doing a RUNAWAYS series: in a very real way, the story that defined the premise is over.

I’ll be honest with you, I’m not sure how to respond to that. On the one hand I’m sand and wanna point out this porblem didn’t stopped Runaways vol.2, on the other I see reasoning behind it and quite frankly, not everybody is BKV and Runaways vol.3 wasn’t as good as vol.1 and vol.2 and I think many of the reasons why would boil down to lack of direction for the series as whole.

Still, saddering.

He’s right that the orginal premise ran its course. However, this is no excuse to ditch the entire property. What you do is come up with a new premise. Toss the buzzwords “Runaways”, “Xavin”, “stolen spaceship”, “crazy space advenures” at any half-decent writer and watch them come up with with great pitches for a new series - and that was only the first idea taking me ten seconds to come up with.

Marvel seems to have no problem reiterating the same worn out concept across god knows how many different X-Men and Avengers titles, but they seem absolutely clueless about what to do with the Runaways. Are they too scared too deviate too much from Vaughan’s original direction? I have a hard time finding an explanation for this lack of creativity.