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This is a great book. I loved the trades... and I thoroughly enjoyed the new #1.

The main group needs some more boys, though.

I'd love to see a storyline set in the future referenced in this story. An intriguing leader for THE AVENGERS... the FANTASTIC FOURTEEN (???!!!!)

Eventually, a crossover with THE THUNDERBOLTS would be fun... the two titles with the best opening twists EVER *should* have their characters meet.

Who else thinks that at least some of The Pride will turn up?

Jeepers! I hope I'm able to secure a copy...you guys have me kind of interested.

Oh, yeah. It's well worth the money. Even in times when I had to think about which books I should drop, I never considered dropping it. I liked it a lot and v2 #1 was also a great read.

love volume 2. glad gert ends up hot. just kidding i like her how she is now...

but didn't julie power make a mistake...she wasn't lightspeed and starstreak. her sister katie was one. i think she's on craaaaaaack.
wonder what her power is now?

I picked up #1 on your guys reccomendation and liked it a lot, I'm officially interested. I'll stick with the book for a bit now, although I'm debating on whether to pick up the back issues. Possibly when I get some extra cash. So far, an excellent read that left me wanting more.

And best Wrecking Crew appearance in too long to count!

I tracked down 1 and 2 from the first run... if I'd read these when they came out, I would have been a die-hard fan from the beginning. D-mn Marvel, for hiding all their gems (RUNAWAYS, SHE-HULK) amidst all their other garbage!

Judging from the cover to #3, she's back on her original light'n'flight powers (conviently mirroring Karolina, oc..)

And, apparently, she was "Starstreak" (II) in the last PP mini.
Not getting the digests? The whole first series is out now as three digests (i.e., six issues per digest)

My comments on the new #1:

I love how the gang "schooled" The Wrecking Crew, they're one of my least favorite super-villain teams. Nico's fight with Wrecker really shows that you don't want to get on that girls bad side.

I'm enjoying Excelsior and I hope Phil will finally take up the mantle of the Blue Wail that Spider-girl has teased us about.

It's awesome that the new "Hostel" at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum since I have many found memories going there.

Future-Gert (if she is the real deal) was intriguing and I hope at least one thing she mentioned comes true (Hisako joining the X-Men). I really felt for Chase there at the end.

Oh and FYI Disaster Boy, Julie was telling the truth. The Power's often share codenames with there siblings along with there powers.

shared names AND powers. i guess i'm not up on pp.

cant wait for the showdown!

Eh, I'm a monthlies kinda guy.

I'm not having any trouble finding these for cover, so I'll probably just buy the entire first run out of the back-issue bins. But I'm picking up the digests to share.

Surprised no-one's posted this yet: Runaways #2 preview

And the RW #4 cover:

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GERT WITH THE WIND!

Yeah, but someone in the background doesn't look happy. Is this another Kitty/Lockheed?

Awesome cover! Although one wonders what's up with Old Lace with that look, unless that's a just a smile.

What do you mean by "Is this another Kitty/Lockheed?", FerroBoy? If you're just refering to their relationships to each other, then no. Lockheed decided to join up with the X-Men because he thought they (and Kitty in particular) were fascinating. While Old Lace has yet to be shown as more then a designer pet/bodyguard raptor for Gert with a psi-link "command system". I'm not dissing Old Lace it's just currently we don't know "The Way She Works".

A bunch of people I know think that Lockheed had more than a casual interest in Kitty. Plus, he thought he was human. Old Lace seems jealous, so I was making a link between this situation and the one with Kitty and Lockheed.

AL, come on, I know you like the Trial of Lockheed:
"...and I confess, with the youngest [Kitty], I was instantly smitten"
"In deep space we met. In that moment I knew a love truly true"

Plus the "leaving fianceé at the altar thing"

Fairly clear really

He never thought he was human though.

Yeah he does love her but it's still friend-love, not any other kind. The way I read the whole leaving at the alter thing was basically he thought he could do more good for the universe with Kitty then just protecting his people.

Rad, "smitten" is not a word you use for friend-love. Nor is love at first sight ("we met. In that moment I knew a love truly true")

Not often perhaps, but I have heard both used (all be it rarely) for friend-love. It could be refering to just a simple crush, IE one where you don't really want to date the person, you just have a certain admiration for them.

I do admit that the humanoid Lockheed as seen in the Crosstime Caper did have romantic feelings for Kitty. That ended up annoying 616 Lockheed and made Kitty blush.

It's a stretch, and you're admitting here it's a stretch.

Smitten, maybe, but "a love truly true"? And this is several years after the fact - Lockheed debuted in Uncanny #166, and this is somewhere around Uncanny #273. If it was just a crush, he'd have been over it by this point.

Probably but his original "crush" could of just matured into a good friendship with Kitty. Remember we haven't really "gotten in his head" since then. Most writers don't realize he's his own complex character and not just "Kitty's dragon". Not that I couldn't keep talking about Lockheed but we should probably go back on topic.

So do y'all think Chase should stay just driving "Frogger" or get a new gadget so he can go back to being "in the trenches" with the rest of the troop?

Aw, that whole Lockheed speaking in rhyme issue of EXCALIBUR has bothered me ever since it came out. What I always enjoyed about the lil' guy was knowing what he was thinking without needing to know exactly WHAT he was thinking. His mind was so alien that Professor X couldn't read it, so that one story always struck me as needlessly silly... like fitting dragonwings on a tomato, if you will...

It was, as a footnote informed you, "loosely translated from dragontongue". And, although Warren Bloody Ellis later (bleep)ed it up, it's actually established in that issue that they (LH included) can't speak or understand human-speech at all, it's all in the reading (Kinda like early Cass-Batgirl, before she got her mind rewired).

A reprint of Vol.2 #1 with a brand new cover came out this week for those that didn't get a chance to pick it up, in addition to Vol.2 #2.