Comics that deserve a comeback

Runaways holds a special place in my heart. I could do with the awful 3rd volume being entirely retconned though. The characters just didn't even sound right, especially under Immonen (seriously, HOW does she keep getting work?!), and they lost that BKV sparkle. If Runaways is done without him, it just wouldn't feel right. BKV writing, the amazing Jo Chen on covers, and anyone other than Ramos or Land on art. Preferably the original artist who's name currently escapes me.

After the Pride was taken out, there was a power vacuum within LA crime scene. The Runaways served as the "hero group" that dealt with those problems. They had to deal with, quite literally, the villains Iron Man wouldn't bother to chase. After season one, the Runaways for better or worst, were a super hero group. Granted, they never idolized the top-tier teams (or at least not eventually) but they still realized they were involved in their world.

While I get the loose comparisons you point out, Nextwave is really nothing like Runaways. Yes, they both had commentary on super heroes, but Runaways was a modern take (or reaction if you will) to it. While Nextwave was pure satire, not only about super heroes, but about the Marvel U as a whole.

Oh when I said Generation X, I actually meant the literal generation. New Warriors was all about the 90s. Runaways is the hipster version. Even there their hatred of costumes and superheroing is so hipster-ish lol...I'd say New Mutants were the 80s version and X-Men the 70s/60s version. I guess the Avengers Academy are the 2010s version perhaps.

I think there are definitely differences between New Warriors and Runaways. But a lot of those differences are the differences in the "youth" in those two different decades. I would actually like to read those two series side-by-side.

Somebody get BKV on the phone. I got an idea for a Runaways mini...have them travel through time to visit the New Warriors, New Mutants, and X-Men when they were young. So what if the MU is about 13-14 years old in their time. The New Warriors would be like 3-4 years back (so like the mid-2000s), New Mutants are like 6-8 years back (so like 2005-2003), and the original 5 were like in the mid 1990s...

What you described Xtreme is moreso a slightly limited idea of the term. I was moreso leaning towards this notion of skewing convention, seeing things like costumes (for example) as being passe'. I mean the New Warriors and New Mutants were kids and adults had costumes but still chose to wear them because of the type of youth they were portraying. Hipster in the broadest sense of the word is a cynical group that does not like the mainstream and supposedly does things their own way. All things that fit the Runaways. As someone who's done a small ethnography of several hipster subcultures I can say the Runaways fit this theme very well. The Runaways would never have fit in with the youth (see: late teens, 20 somethings) of the early 90s which were more grunge, gangsta rap based (not all of course) or the 80s. They were a group very historically specific.

Never said that, albeit I didn't go on further with the elaboration because I thought it would sufficient. Apparently it didn't LOL...either way, as you say it's not for this thread...

Cable and Deadpool, this book would be especially relevant given the post-shism enviroment, Deadpools involvement with Uncanny X-men, Generation Hope on Utopia. Return Cable to the dry humoured philosophical chessmaster and continue to redeem Deadpool with character developement.

Or just Cable, if he's coming back he might as well be used. He's really a great one for interacting with different teams due to his past history, Cable guest featuring this issue Generation Hop/Uncanny X-men/Uncanny X-force/X-factor/New Mutants/Adjectiveless X-men would all work.