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What would you do if you found out that your parents were evil? Not, like, run of the mill, parents gotta parent evil - putting the entire family on a diet because your younger brother has to make weight for football, for example, or siding with your klepto sister when she steals your favorite pair of shoes and then proceeds to cut you with one of them (both of which happened to yours truly and still burns some twenty years later) - but real life supervillains bent on world domination evil?

When Alex, Nico, Chase, Gert, Karolina, and Molly witness their parents murder a young woman during their annual get-together, they decide on the most reasonable option: report their "psycho `rents" to the police. Only problem is, the LAPD is in The Pride's pocket - along with the rest of the city. As the sextet sets out to procure concrete evidence of their parents' wrongdoing, they also embark on an unexpected journey of self-discovery: among their group hide unwitting aliens, mutants, prodigies, and even a prospective time-traveler with her very own pet velociraptor!

I scooped up the first volume of RUNAWAYS for a mere buck at a library book sale; ten pages in, and I was hooked. (Hey, you had me at vegan tempeh fajitas!) Fifteen pages, and I'd already ordered the next nine volumes in the set on eBay. (They can't get here fast enough!) The characters are both believable and relatively diverse; four of the six protagonists are young women, and two are people of color. A little "chubby," Gert is a welcome deviation from conventional beauty standards, and Molly's age (at just eleven years old, she's several years younger than her teenage cohorts) introduces a whole new set of coming of age issues to explore. (Indeed, one plot point hinges upon the confusion caused by Molly's changing body, assumed to be the result of her first period.)

If this first volume is any indication, it also looks as though RUNAWAYS will explore such weighty issues as domestic (child) abuse, and the more general problem of reconciling a parent's evil deeds with their outwardly "good" personae.

While the general consensus seems to be that the series takes a nosedive somewhere around Volume 9 (bummer!), I can't wait to see what's in store for the runaways.


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Runaways Vol 1 Pride and Joy Brian K Vaughan Adrian Alphona Books Reviews

Bought this along with the first issue out of slight curiosity and want of something i've never heard of before. I would go a lot more into this on the review of the first book, but to keep it simple, Runaways is just awesome. Plain and simple.

I mean...They have a velociraptor pet! A frog ship! An eleven year old who decks wolverine out of a church and hurls cars at Colossus!

If you got the first book and thought that was a good place to stop, you're dead wrong!
I'd probably give the actual story 4 stars, but this is the lowest quality graphic novel I've ever seen. The book is shrunk down to almost half the size of a comic, and the paper is incredibly cheap. The absolute worst thing about it though, is the binding, as the book literally fell apart in my hands as I was reading it. The build quality of the book is unacceptable, and I would send it back, but I think it's too late as I bought it a couple of months ago but didn't read it until now.

For the story itself, I enjoyed it, even though the actions of the characters were a little goofy. I liked the idea of a group of unknown but very powerful super villains having kids that upon learning of their parents evil ways runaway from home. They're an interesting collection of characters, although for their design it's a little odd that the youngest one looks like one of the oldest of the group (and talks like a child). For the parents, they look cool and appropriately varied and evil, but their reasoning really bothered me. The first thing they do when their kids (who they love) learn about them, instead of trying to reassure them, is to attack them and then when that doesn't work, threaten to kill the youngest of the kids in her sleep if they all don't immediately come home. The reasoning of the kids was a little off too, you'd think they'd want to say something to their parents to get their side of things, but they're so quick to runaway/call the police. Still, I think I'll continue the series, although I hope the rest of them aren't produced in a similar fashion.
Runaways collects into 3 volumes covering 11 books (or 3 books if you buy the larger volume version) plus two side books. Volume 1 (Books 1-3) and Volume 2 (Books 4-8) were really, really good. Volume 3 (Books 9-1) was mediocre and ends kind of abruptly. The two size stories (Civil War Young Avengers & Runaways and Secret Invasion Runaways/Young Avengers) are alright but not really essential. If you want to read Runaways, it is a series to simply read in order since it's not that long. However, I wouldn't fault anyone who stopped reading after finishing Book 8 (Dead End Kids) and didn't bother with the last three books.

Here's the complete reading order for the main series
Runaways, Vol. 1 Pride & Joy
Runaways, Vol. 2 Teenage Wasteland
Runaways Vol. 3 The Good Die Young
Runaways Volume 4 True Believers (Runaways (Numbered Paperback))
Runaways, Vol. 5 Escape to New York
Runaways Volume 6 Parental Guidance
Runaways, Vol. 8 Dead End Kids
Runaways - Volume 9 Dead Wrong
Runaways Rock Zombies
Runaways Homeschooling

(There's apparently a link limit, but the last two are also on .)
What would you do if you found out that your parents were evil? Not, like, run of the mill, parents gotta parent evil - putting the entire family on a diet because your younger brother has to make weight for football, for example, or siding with your klepto sister when she steals your favorite pair of shoes and then proceeds to cut you with one of them (both of which happened to yours truly and still burns some twenty years later) - but real life supervillains bent on world domination evil?

When Alex, Nico, Chase, Gert, Karolina, and Molly witness their parents murder a young woman during their annual get-together, they decide on the most reasonable option report their "psycho `rents" to the police. Only problem is, the LAPD is in The Pride's pocket - along with the rest of the city. As the sextet sets out to procure concrete evidence of their parents' wrongdoing, they also embark on an unexpected journey of self-discovery among their group hide unwitting aliens, mutants, prodigies, and even a prospective time-traveler with her very own pet velociraptor!

I scooped up the first volume of RUNAWAYS for a mere buck at a library book sale; ten pages in, and I was hooked. (Hey, you had me at vegan tempeh fajitas!) Fifteen pages, and I'd already ordered the next nine volumes in the set on eBay. (They can't get here fast enough!) The characters are both believable and relatively diverse; four of the six protagonists are young women, and two are people of color. A little "chubby," Gert is a welcome deviation from conventional beauty standards, and Molly's age (at just eleven years old, she's several years younger than her teenage cohorts) introduces a whole new set of coming of age issues to explore. (Indeed, one plot point hinges upon the confusion caused by Molly's changing body, assumed to be the result of her first period.)

If this first volume is any indication, it also looks as though RUNAWAYS will explore such weighty issues as domestic (child) abuse, and the more general problem of reconciling a parent's evil deeds with their outwardly "good" personae.

While the general consensus seems to be that the series takes a nosedive somewhere around Volume 9 (bummer!), I can't wait to see what's in store for the runaways.