Chase Stein is a player and a homemaker in Runaways No. 21
By Alex Widen
Don’t Call Them Heroes?
Unfortunately, it turns out that Chase may be a better big brother than boyfriend. He may be content, or too guilt ridden or nostalgic, to put an end to a relationship which is already over. Gert, on the other hand, has fewer qualms. After all, she’s been dead once, so she knows life can be short. And Victor has realized that living in fear of what he might become will cause him to stifle what he is now. A house full of women and few bathrooms means Chase walks into a scene right out of a daytime soap opera! Cut to commercial…for thirty days!
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Rainbow Rowell continues on what is quickly becoming a career defining run for her on this series. Even during times when creative teams didn’t switch with the seasons, a run approaching two years was always notable. She’s seamlessly captured the spirit and vision of Runaway‘s first volume in 2002 and is expertly taking both the cast and the franchise in new directions. They feel more like organic character growth and reactions to stimuli than dramatic shifts, which happens too rarely in serialized superhero books. But then again, Rowell gets that Runaways isn’t one of those.
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