Runaways has a phenomenal creative team that shows the heart and emotion behind these characters. In a world that focuses on the intense action and stress of being a hero we instead get to see a scope into the complicated relationships that bring a team together. This silent issue captivates the team in a rare lens of finding comfort in each other's silence. Read Full Review

Andres Genolet is the real star of this issue, with his artwork giving life to each of the characters' emotions. The silent issue premise here works beautifully in some regards, but really lacks in others. Read Full Review

This was a disappointing issue in that it took away Runaways‘ greatest strengths: the dialogue and character drama. The art is still great, and I could follow along, but the silent gimmick is not nearly as compelling as the creators probably hoped it would be. Read Full Review

The final moments before a big change are conveyed sans dialogue. The character beats range from cute (Gib) to critically important (the Gerts), and the artist does stellar work with all of them. Still, it's an odd selection of moments. Tons of Gib, but no Molly. And who the @#$% wants the J-Team dredged up again? The weirder selections sap the more central ones of energy. It's not a deadly mistake, but it does pull this issue down from great to very good.

There really are no words to speak about this. The Runaways have all built up lives for themselves but not exactly on stable foundations. Now they all have to deal with the consequences that could impede the progress some of them have made and the reactions of the future Gert imply a tragic fate for one character. To rub salt on the wound, it looks like one of the Runaways is in trouble from her past. Pure expressionism in motion.

Silent issues are hard to pull off, and this one is solid, but not great.

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Fracadactyl - Jul 11, 2021

I can see why, it's dependent as a reactionary piece.

Psycamorean - Jul 11, 2021

The emotions did hit somewhat, I just didn't feel them as much as I wanted to. The gold standard of silent issues, for me anyway, is J. Michael Straczynski's issue of Amazing Spider-Man (issue 39 of the second volume, IIRC) where we see Peter, MJ and Aunt May as they react to Spider-Man.

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