Aku baru jer diperkenalkan dengan satu lagi komik Marvel di bawah tulisan
Brian K. Vaughan, seorang si botak yang merupakan penulis komik Marvel yang tersohor (pelik dan lucu apabila kebanyakan penulis komik barat tersohor botak-botak belaka, kecuali, well, Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore and maybe a lot more).
The title of the comic is
Runaways, one of the quite latest works of Brian and presenting
a unique prespective to the Marvel superheroes world. It is about a group of juvenile superheroes whose parent; suprise or no suprise, were supervillains who named themselves "Pride". It started when these kids were hauled to a once a year gathering by their parents. Actually these "gatherings" were sacrificial ceremonies to achieve the reborn of the world (world destruction), To cut it short, they discovered what their parents were up to, team up and along the way regain their "superhero powers" as they embark on the adventure to stop their parents from destroying the world.
Aku tengok konsep komik nih agak refreshing di mana anak-anak supervillains membuat keputusan tak nak ikut jejak langkah parents diorang dan instead menggunakan kuasa diorang untuk kebaikan. Pada aku, ada 2 underlaying themes pada series awal-awal komik ini. Satu, sejahat-jahat seseorang itu, anak-anak diorang tetap sayang. So kids, sedangkan supervillains sayangkan anak-anak diorang, takkan ibu bapa kita tak sayangkan kita. Diorang selalu marah-marah tu sebab sayang :P.
And 2nd, which is the most important; is that the choice you make determines who you are and these choices make your destiny and fate. True, seperti kata westerners "fate has been written in the beginning" dengan ayat Al-Quran bahawa "qada' dan qadar dah ditentukan" tapi kita juga yang berusaha untuk menentukan nasib kita. Berusaha dulu barulah bertawakal atau berserah. Life is full of endless possibilities.
Well folks, thats all about Runaways that I can think of right now. Macam biasa, anda boleh melayari
Wikipedia untuk mengetahui cerita selanjutnya, siap dengan spoilernya sekali. Anyway, let me end this article with this piece of self created wise saying:
In the end, it's your choice that will decide who you're going to be...