Wait, are... areyou serious? Because if you are, that' is the best news I've heard, like, in a long time. Just yesterday I was thinking to myself "Self? It's really too bad Joss is over on X-Men because he would do a totally AWESOME job with Runaways."
I am completely serious. He talks about it here (among other comic news places). When I heard BKV was leaving and that we'd all be really excited about the new creative team, I was thinking, 'oh boy, everyone's going to think it's Whedon because he's a fan and he'd be perfect, and he would, but there's no way he'd be able to commit to that'. But it turns out I am a cynical fool and, yay for me being a cynical fool!
I think it's good in that it'll get Runaways exposure, though Joss's X-Men work was solid but not my favorite run on the series or anything; Grant Morrison's run (for all its flaws) still intrigued me more and got me back into comics after years away. Fscker. I need to punch him for that some day.
Still though, I hope it makes Runaways more successful.
I was going to say that I probably wouldn't call Joss Whedon's run on X-Men my favorite, then I realized I couldn't think of a run that I did consider a favorite. Not Grant Morrison's - he had some good ideas but too much wtfness (in a bad way). Nor Austen, dropped Milligan, and Claremont, though I enjoy him at times, is still not that great. So maybe Whedon is the closest to my favorite there is (he needed a stronger editor though to point out when a story's been done and when one doesn't make sense, and to be on a longer run). I guess I read X-Men just to bitch about it ;). Or more accurately, I really enjoy the story the X-Men mythos as a whole makes in my head more than I do the actual work.
Still, I'm pleased to see Whedon on Runaways - I think Runaways plays more to Whedon's strengths anyway. And he doesn't have to worry about decades of continuity he's admittedly missed.
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Date: 2006-09-12 03:11 am (UTC)That? That was me beating at the keyboard, unable to actually properly share how GODDAMN AWESOME THAT IS.
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Date: 2006-09-12 07:09 am (UTC)I had him totally in the "yeah, he'd be great but he's never gonna do it" category as you know.
Saw the news this morning and my only reaction is O.O
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Date: 2006-09-14 06:46 pm (UTC)Still though, I hope it makes Runaways more successful.
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Date: 2006-09-14 09:26 pm (UTC)Still, I'm pleased to see Whedon on Runaways - I think Runaways plays more to Whedon's strengths anyway. And he doesn't have to worry about decades of continuity he's admittedly missed.