Moore, Terry
About the Author:
Terry Moore is a writer, artist and publisher.
AVERAGE REVIEW SCORE:
2 out of 5
(1 book)
Runaways: Dead Wrong
(Art by Humberto Ramos and Dave Meikis)
The Runaways return to LA but soon find themselves targeted by vengeful soldiers from Karolina's homeworld, seeking revenge for the genocide of their people. The team then have to come up with a plan of how to prove Karolina's innocence whilst also battling on of Nico's spells gone awry.
I like the Runaways as a concept and enjoyed both the TV series and Brian K. Vaughn's series debut 'Pride & Joy', but I've read little else with the characters apart from that. This book, much further along in their adventures, was therefore a bit bewildering to me.
However, worse than me simply having lost the threads of how the characters got to this point (which the book can't really be blamed for) was the fact that the things I enjoyed previously just aren't present here. There's no conflict based on these heroes being essentially children in an adult world and there's none of the personal stakes that their battle with Pride had. Really, the plot here was pretty shallow and boring and, ultimately, didn't really go anywhere except a 'to be continued...'.
I also found the artwork here to be pretty irritating. It's part of the trend of the 2000s in which American comic book art went out of its way to emulate the style of Japanese manga but which ultimately didn't do justice to either tradition. Honestly, everyone's too-big eyes and weird distorted mouths rapidly became almost unpleasant to look at.
2 out of 5
Collaborations & Anthologies:
Star Wars: Tales - Volume 2 (here)