Alex finds a book where literally everything they said and did got written down for some reason.

The reasons though for what The Pride are about and how they got their powers, etc., is conveyed a bit too conveniently. If I were going to put an obnoxious gif in this review, it’d be of Scott Evil telling his dad how supervillains should deal with prisoners - “I have a gun, in my room, you give me five seconds, I'll get it, I'll come back down here, BOOM, I'll blow their brains out!” And then the mole does the classic corndog thing of monologuing long enough so that the heroes have a chance to recover. The mole storyline is exciting and the payoff is excellent – I didn’t expect THAT character to be the Judas! Vaughan also makes them almost sympathetic because they’ve been humanised as one of the goodies to us over three books – almost. 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.

Runaways volume 3