First off, I think its strange that this got its own page. Like whats next, if I took over writing for the series would it be called "Kyrtuck's Runaways"?
Anyway, I'll start off with the positives. Rowell has a very good grasp on the characters and what makes them tick. She did an excellent job of salvaging Victor's character after all the excrement he was dragged through in the Vision series. She's done a great job of crafting the relationships. The Found Family theme runs true. Alex's motives and characterization were well written.
I really loved Gib and the unique situation he provided. Doombot was funny. I really loved The One both for being an amusing villain and for giving Nico an excellent moral dilemma. It was cute getting a short story from Old Lace's perspective.
Now for the bad. I thought that the Karolina and Julie "relationship" was just inane filler. Karolina herself looks like a spoiled brat with her not doing anything with college, not being more involved with the Dean Foundation, getting royalties from her parent's movies and buying a new car on a whim.
I was very unsatisfied with the way Klara was written out, we don't learn anything at all about her adopted dads. And some of her reasoning didn't make sense. Oh she's afraid of the danger the group gets into? 1907 Newyork was plenty dangerous in its own right, the first time we saw Klara she was saving girls from a factory fire. Its not like they snatched her away from a safe space.
Speaking of danger, the overall series has too much of a "cozy" feel, and there's not any sufficient feeling of tension where there should be. Rowell is clearly shy about writing fight scenes, which was most evident in the Canon Fodder arc where we only get infuriatingly tiny glimpses of them fighting regular criminals.
The Canon Fodder arc was all around ill conceived. Too much focus is on Gert while the others are shoved aside. The jokes and observations they make on superheroes has been done before and better in other places.
Gert and Victor going to high school was a very "just because" moment, but I will say that Gib disguising himself as a tall human and playing football was amusing.
And it was crushing that this series gets ended on no less than three cliffhangers. What's Alex planning? What's Gert from the Future planning? What's Xavin planning? But it was still a much better ending than Kathryn Imomen's run.
My thoughts on Rowell's Runaways
First off, I think its strange that this got its own page. Like whats next, if I took over writing for the series would it be called "Kyrtuck's Runaways"?
Anyway, I'll start off with the positives. Rowell has a very good grasp on the characters and what makes them tick. She did an excellent job of salvaging Victor's character after all the excrement he was dragged through in the Vision series. She's done a great job of crafting the relationships. The Found Family theme runs true. Alex's motives and characterization were well written.
I really loved Gib and the unique situation he provided. Doombot was funny. I really loved The One both for being an amusing villain and for giving Nico an excellent moral dilemma. It was cute getting a short story from Old Lace's perspective.
Now for the bad. I thought that the Karolina and Julie "relationship" was just inane filler. Karolina herself looks like a spoiled brat with her not doing anything with college, not being more involved with the Dean Foundation, getting royalties from her parent's movies and buying a new car on a whim.
I was very unsatisfied with the way Klara was written out, we don't learn anything at all about her adopted dads. And some of her reasoning didn't make sense. Oh she's afraid of the danger the group gets into? 1907 Newyork was plenty dangerous in its own right, the first time we saw Klara she was saving girls from a factory fire. Its not like they snatched her away from a safe space.
Speaking of danger, the overall series has too much of a "cozy" feel, and there's not any sufficient feeling of tension where there should be. Rowell is clearly shy about writing fight scenes, which was most evident in the Canon Fodder arc where we only get infuriatingly tiny glimpses of them fighting regular criminals.
The Canon Fodder arc was all around ill conceived. Too much focus is on Gert while the others are shoved aside. The jokes and observations they make on superheroes has been done before and better in other places.
Gert and Victor going to high school was a very "just because" moment, but I will say that Gib disguising himself as a tall human and playing football was amusing.
And it was crushing that this series gets ended on no less than three cliffhangers. What's Alex planning? What's Gert from the Future planning? What's Xavin planning? But it was still a much better ending than Kathryn Imomen's run.