Runaways #16 Review

Writer: Rainbow Rowell / Artist: Kris Anka / Marvel Runaways is great for many reasons, but the one I always come back to is family. The Runaways team has this undying feeling of genuine love and appreciation for each other, despite their frequently crappy circumstances. They didn’t choose this life. It was kind of thrown at their feet after, ya know, the whole sacrificial children thing their nutty parents were involved in. Issue #16 reminds us that these boys and girls have, and always will be a bunch kids enjoying the little things in life. Even if they’re being held captive, they like having a proper Christmas tree to string up for the holiday season!

This creative team of Rainbow Rowell and Kris Anka, maaaan. Such a problem! These two were really out here tugging on mufuckas heartstrings this week. Anka’s attention to Christmas dinner detail is impressively heart warming. Rowell’s characters have internal battles raging and they are on full display once the Christmas spirit takes over. Of course, those positive intentions and respect for family new and old are completely ruined by a certain Benedict Arnold and his quest for dominance, but we not gonna get into that though. What we are going to get into, is Gert da Cynical Gawd and her side quest. Come to think about it, Gert is the only member of the team that has consistently gotten various character arcs that deepen her history and advance her journey. Everyone has received their issue or 2 but she’s the one who Rowel…