In the time is took for Joss Weadon to write and release six issues of Runaways, my wife and I have moved three times. Given, we’ve had pretty bad luck when it came to living quarters, but if I can remember picking up the second issue of Joss Weadon’s run two apartments ago, something is seriously wrong.

But it’s finally out, and Joss is done with the series, so I should be looking on the brightside, right? Okay, let’s do just that:

What I liked about Joss Weadon’s run on Runaways (pst, there will be spoilers):

• He writes a lot like Brian K. Vaughan, so there was no shock in the creative team change.
• Classic Weadon dialogue.
• He fixed Chase! Tech-enhanced jock is good. Emo-jock with death wish is bad.
• Steampunk was really cool when this series started, so it appealed to me on a very geeky level.
• Didn’t add the team member we expected.
• Molly taking down the Punisher.
• He didn’t kill anyone.
• There is only one Runaways title, so there would be no necessary spoilers (see: Kitty being dead in Uncanny X-Men months before dying in Astonishing X-Men).

But I can’t be positive forever, so here is What I hated about Joss Weadon’s run on Runaways:

• I actually had to read the “Previously” pages because I could not remember what happened in the previous issues, which never happens to me. And even then I would be confused. And when the very beginning of the arc is referenced in the last pages of #30, I was completely lost.
• By the time this run ended, Steampunk got boring.
• He broke up Nico and Victor, which may be for the best but I’m a ’shipper at heart.
• The next Runaways issue will be an unnecessary #1 to generate hype after Weadon’s delays killed the book’s appeal to new readers. I hate unnecessary #1’s.

Looking back, Weadon’s run was really quite good. It’s really just the mutiple-month delays that will cause me to forever look back on it with distain. I look forward to reading the trade that will be coming out in a matter of weeks, as it would be nice to read all the chapters together. (I would read the individual issues, but they were packed away during the last move six months ago.)