

She’s 10 or 11 but she behaves like a 5 year old, always throwing babyish temper tantrums and talking like an ickle kiddy! The only character who’s strangely written is Molly. They’re also hooking up left and right, as the kids do (he says, adjusting his walker). They’re teenagers so they’ve got lame superhero names – Arsenic and Old Lace, Lucy in the Sky, etc. The origin story for The Pride is completely bonkers but in keeping with what you’d expect from Marvel (cosmic zaniness)! After that it’s all systems go as he has the Runaways, uh, running away from the LAPD and then deciding running away’s not for them anymore and take the fight to the ‘rentals – wow, successful character arcs, that’s something you don’t often see in a Marvel comic!įor the most part the characters are well written. Whatever happens, there will be blood!Īfter a lull in the weak second volume, Brian K Vaughan is back with a much more energised and focused third book. But the mole in the group threatens to bring them down, while The Pride have their own insurrectionists.

The Runaways discover the bizarre origins of their parents’ supervillain group, The Pride, before deciding they need to confront them once and for all.
