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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  subbobmail | Jul 27, 2008 |  The group meets another teen with evil parents, who turns out to be a vampire. Cloak and Dagger are sent after the kids. Collects Runaways #7-12. (  ) angellreads | Aug 8, 2007 | Volume 2 of Runaways picks up pretty much exactly where the first one left off, with the Runaways settling into their new home away from home and trying to decide what to do to fight off the evil influence of their parents. While trying to do so, they encounter Topher, a kid with a story rather similar to their own - supervillian parents who had forced him into a life of crime. But all is not what is seems, of course, and the Runaways end up facing their greatest challenge to date. The last story in the GN focuses on Cloak & Dagger, a superpowered runaway team from the eighties, as they come to LA to try to bring the Runaways home. One of those "well, I guess it had to be done" stories, but C&D seem to be interesting characters, and the story does a good job of exploring the influence of The Pride, the supervillian team that consists of the parents of the Runaways. ( ) orangemonkey | Jan 21, 2007 | Runaways might seem like a book for kids, but it is actually highly enjoyable. The kids are still on the run, and they meet someone else, a robot boy, basically. This is still fun, even if not as much as at the start of the series. Perhaps a bit much of the relationships between the group happening, that weakens it a bit. http://graphicsf.blogspot.com/2006/11... ( ) bluetyson | Jul 8, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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The basic premise of Runaways is that a bunch of teens discover that 1) their parents are members of a superpowered league of evil, and 2) they themselves have superpowers. The kids run away (hotly pursued by the 'rents) and swear to right the karmic balance by fighting bad guys of all kinds.
It's a simple premise -- sort of like the Teen Titans, without costumes -- and it works pretty well because Vaughn's adolescent characters are (emotionally) realistic. They bicker and act like brats just as often as they battle the forces of eeeeeevil. And it's neat to see how their powers are just extensions of their personalities. The moody goth chick can do magic, but only after she cuts herself; the gay chick feels like an alien, and hey, she IS an alien.
As a whole, Runaways has the feel of a Joss Whedon creation, so it's no surprise that the maker of Buffy has taken a turn writing the series...can't wait to see those issues.