Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Daken: Dark Wolverine #17

Last review of the night is an interesting one... I mean I've been really down on this series for a while now, but with it's impending cancellation, as well as a guest appearance by the Runaways(!!), I'm hoping we get some great Daken stories before the end closes in.

Daken: Dark Wolverine #17:

Summary: Daken manages to escape from Roston and certain death when the LAPD arrive on the scene and begin shooting at the two of them. Roston simply turns invisible and intangible to avoid the spray of bullets while Daken gets tagged in the leg and falls into the waters below. Daken surfaces after the LAPD had called off their search of the water and heads to the home of a former SHIELD chemist with some Heat pills, hoping to unlock what makes the drug so powerful. While waiting for the results from the chemist, Daken researches the LA crime scene prior to his arrival and learns of the Pride, figuring whoever Roston was, he must have had some sort of connection to the Pride, which would explain how Roston took control of the LA drug trade with such ease. The chemist reveals to Daken that there was human blood in the heat pills, which confirms something Daken had suspected, that a member of the Pride was still alive(huh?). To that end Daken sneaks into a home and is attacked by the Runaways, who want to know what he was doing breaking into their place.

Thoughts: This issue was fast paced and pretty good. Naturally, I loved seeing the Runaways pop up here, as I was always a fan of that series and those characters. Roston possibly being an extended family member of one of the Pride is interesting, although it still doesn't explain his powers(which include invisibility, intangibility, shapeshifting, telepathy, and probably more)... I guess he could be related to Nico in some way, because a powerful sorcerer could probably manifest all of those powers, but other than that, I'm stymied as to who/what Roston is... However, for the first time in several issues, I'm actually looking forward to the next issue of this series, so that's definitely a huge positive.

Score: 8 out of 10.Sweet, Chase is alive!
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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 24, 2011 at 6:16 PM

    movieartman here
    glad this issue was good
    happy thanksgiving

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  2. x-man75November 24, 2011 at 7:22 PM

    Same to you my friend.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 24, 2011 at 7:48 PM

    what happened to runaways anyway, didn't they use to have a pretty good comic of their own?

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  4. x-man75November 24, 2011 at 8:04 PM

    Yep, they sure did... And then Marvel kept shaking up the creative teams, and the stories kept getting worse and worse until Marvel canned the book. I keep hoping for a new Runaways series, but with the way Marvel is canceling books lately, I'm not holding my breath.

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  5. jermoxNovember 24, 2011 at 11:41 PM

    IIRC, the first series was a mini-series. Then, they had two more series that kept getting cancelled. So, sadly they have pretty much been AWOL for awhile (except the mutant girl, who shows up in X-men comics once in a great while).

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  6. x-man75November 25, 2011 at 10:42 AM

    Was the first series a mini? I kind of recall it going like 15 issues or so before getting canned like most of those Tsunami Marvel titles, and then relaunched under Marvel proper, but I def could be wrong... Not that it really matters anyway. For me, the tipping point came when BKV left the series and Joss "Delay" Whedon took over and destroyed the flow of the book. After Whedon we got another series, but I don't think it was a cancellation, it was more like with Uncanny X-Men, where they figured renumbering the series was the way to go(prob to boost sales). I only recall all of that because I was subscribed to the series through Marvel at the time and I don't recall getting a cancellation notice after the second series. I'm pretty sure my subscription just continued on to series three. But as always, I could very well be wrong, so take all that with a grain of salt.

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  7. Aliendw700November 25, 2011 at 11:45 AM

    I reed that Marvel is producing a Runaways Movie, but they held the proyect for a year due to the Avengers movie.

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  8. x-man75November 25, 2011 at 3:12 PM

    If that's true, the best thing about it would be the fact that Marvel would HAVE to bring back the Runaways series, and would probably give it to one of their better writers! Here's hoping!

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  9. Aliendw700November 25, 2011 at 7:53 PM

    http://io9.com/5830994/marvels-runaways-movie-on-ice-until-after-the-avengers

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  10. x-man75November 25, 2011 at 8:57 PM

    Cool, thanks for the link, mi amigo. That proves that the Runaways movie is STILL possible! Huzzah! I've actually read some place else that Marvel had a few other films on hold(I think Iron Fist, as well as Nova and/or the Guardians of the Galaxy) due to the Avengers film, so reading that article makes a lot of sense.

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