By: Brian K Vaughan Publisher: Marvel Comics Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Marvel Comics Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 448 Publication Date: February 01, 2006
Product Description: In Pride & Joy, six young friends discover their parents are all secretly super-powered villains! Finding strength in one another, the shocked teens run away from home and straight into the adventure of their lives - vowing to turn the tables on their evil legacy. In Teenage Wasteland, the Runaways find a kindred spirit in a daring young stranger and welcome him into their fold. But will this dashing young man help the teenagers defeat their villainous parents... or tear them apart? Plus: who do you send to catch a group of missing, runaway teenage super-heroes? Marvel's original teen runaway crimefighters, Cloak and Dagger, make their first major appearance in years! In The Good Die Young, the world as we know it is about to end, and the Runaways are the only hope to prevent it! Our fledgling teenage heroes have learned how their parents' criminal organization began, and now they must decide how it should end. As the Runaways' epic battle against their evil parents reaches its shocking conclusion, the team's mole stands revealed, and blood must be shed. Which kids will still be standing when the smoke finally clears?
Awful Character Development, Mildly Interesting Plot I have been reading this at my high school library. I have continued reading it only because there is nothing better there.
The idea is clever. The art is great. The thing that stops this book from being good is teen angst.
You are introduced to several main characters at once. I have to say, I am nearly finished with this book, and I still don't know that much about any of them. They are all rushed into a story which is quite interesting. Yet the characters themselves are bland.
The authors have decided to inform you about these characters through fits of teen angst. Every character gets to rantabout how "I always hated my parents" and "We're all alone in the world". I've never wanted characters to shut up more.
The romance is horrible. The main romance goes like this:
Guy suddenly finds goth girl attractive. They kiss almost instantly. The team finds this random guy off the street to join the team, so the goth girl starts making out with him instead (after about 5 lines of dialog between the two of them)
And, you get the picture.
Before the couple's first kiss, the goth girl is talking about how she always thinks about death. And then the guy says to her that he's always found it a miracle that he hasn't died earlier. He then follows up by saying that the girl is (and I'm paraphrasing here, but just barely) "an island in a sea of awful".
The plot is interesting, but is overshadowed by the emotional garbage untile the end of volume one. I'll have to read more to see if it's been worth the read.
The teens ruin the story, and that's pretty bad, seeing as the whole book's abou them. Teenagers don't start kissing after meeting each other 5 minutes ago, and they don't constantly ponder death and how much they despise their parents. If you don't mind characters shallower than a kiddy pool, then this is a book for you.
Weird premise When I first heard the premise for Runaways, I was a little skeptical. It didn't sound to me like it would be worth reading. I was wrong. I've learned now to never doubt Brian K. Vaughn about anything. The man is the best comic writer out there right now, be it runaways, y the last man, ex machina, etc. The dialogue in Runaways was really witty and delivers a ton of laughs. In typical Vaughn fashion, Runaways is filled to the brim with pop culture references that never fail to elicit at least a chuckle. The artwork wasn't great, but it'll do for the story being told. Even after just 1 volume of Runaways, I'm hooked. Do yourself a favor and read it. You won't be sorry.
Runaways, Vol. 1 A really good to start getting into comics. Once i started reading i could not put it down. I just finished Vol. 3 and waiting 4 to come in. If ever felt like running away when you were a kid and wished you had powers. This is the book for you. ; )
Book for children I do admit this might be a good book for juvenile readers but with little interest for adult reader. Just a collection of clichés with a manga-inspired artwork.
Ran away with my heart This hardcover trade collects the entire first run of the series Runaways, created by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Adrian Alphona.
Included are issues #1-18 of the first run of Runaways. The story arcs: Pride and Joy (issues 1-6) Teenage Wasteland (issues 7-10) Lost and Found (issues 11-12) The Good Die Young (issues 13-17) Eighteen (issue 18)
If you've never read Runaways, this is the place to start. The beginning of the story. Brian K. Vaughan has an amazing talent for creating characters that you care about.
If you enjoy this book, continue reading the series with Runaways, Vol. 2 and Runaways, Vol. 3, as well as Civil War: Young Avengers & Runaways.
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