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RIP Runaways

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DKB

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There will be a more in-depth article about this soon, but it sounds like Marvel.com is posting an announcement today, and I wanted you guys to hear it first. Anyway, I'm not one for burying the lead, so...

 

After working together on the series for more than four years, Adrian Alphona and I will be leaving Runaways with Issue #24.

 

And no, this is absolutely not because of creative differences. I love editor Nick Lowe like a kid brother, and Joe Quesada and everone at Marvel have obviously been nothing short of insanely supportive of our little book since the first page of the first issue.

 

This was entirely my idea. While Y: The Last Man and Ex Machina have planned endings, I've always said that I hoped Runaways would last forever, long after I left the series. I never wanted Runaways to become a vanity book that was dependent on its original creators' involvement; I wanted our kids to be able to eventually run away from us, and find new life apart from their "parents."

 

I can say with a great deal of confidence that these next five issues are the pinnacle of the series, and Adrian and I decided that the best thing for the Runaways would be to hand them off to new creators on this high note, rather than risk overstaying our welcome until we ran ourselves--and the book--into the ground.

 

I love these characters more than you can possibly imagine, and I swear I wouldn't abandon them unless I knew for a fact that they were going to end up with the very best creative team possible. Marvel will be announcing that new team in about a week, and to say that you guys will be thrilled is probably an understatement.

 

As for Adrian and me, we've already started talking about possible new projects to work on together. I'd really like to take time to give birth to a few more creator-owned books, and I hope you Runners will follow us wherever we end up next.

 

No one thought Runaways would last six months, but after nearly forty issues and a few Eisner nominations, our sales are still going up (especially with the digest collections in bookstores), making our series one of the most successful comics starring all-new characters to be launched by any major company in recent memory. I'm extremely proud of the entire Runaways team, some of whom will definitely be sticking with our kids, and I'm so grateful to all the undyingly loyal readers out there, the best group of friends a comic book could hope for.

 

Keep running,

BKV

 

 

Yeah, the book will keep on going, but I cannot imagine it lasting long once BKV leaves. Sadness. frown.gif

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jordanscott

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Well, that's certainly a suprise. I just didn't think a marquis talent would want to write Runaways.

 

As long as he doesn't make it blatantly Buffaways.

 

This is the kind of teen scooby gang that he likes.

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DKB

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Well, the book wasn't doing well before, and the reboot allowed them to get behind it in a big way from a marketing standpoint. Joe Q spent a couple months screaming about how everyone should buy this book. I think if ever there was a need for a reboot, this was it. Rebooting Spidey? Spidey never has and never will have the sales problems that Runaways had.

 

I'm all for reboots when its the difference between cancellation and continuation.

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