The original run by BKV and Adrian Alphona is one of my favorites, and was so meaningful when it first came out. Overall, though? I'd read more of this one. <-I may have misunderstood the plan a tad What I'm trying to say, is that these guys could easily say that the name Runaways is a throwback to their youthful glory days when they were fugitives from their supervillain parents, instead of having to live together in an abandoned crack house. When Captain Marvel was running them (into the ground) with that precog Inhuman doing that Minority Report bullshit, you didn't see them changing their name to The Proactives, did you? In fact, they don't avenge much of anything anymore. It could just be a cute name, you know? I mean, the Avengers don't go around avenging 24/7. Yeah, I get that they're The Runaways but I don't think they need to stay locked in to being literal runaways. Great question, actually! Quick - get in the van and we'll figure that out on the way to our cave or whatever venue we decide to squat in.

Hey, I realize you're in college and you have a whole life going for yourself, but Gert's alive again, so how 'bout you drop out and 'go on the lam' with us? I mean, who does that sort of thing if there are other options that don't require you to be homeless? Ok, while I found that this was pretty easy to read and follow, I also felt like there needed to be a better reason behind trying to get everyone to pack up their lives and go on the run together. The rest of the group are a bit older now, so they're in that phase where they seem to be trying to 'find themselves', or whatever you do when you're not a pimply teen but not yet a crusty old fart. Yes, there's still an underlying vibe of (annoying) teen angst running through the story, but it's mainly from Gert. This is my first Rainbow Rowell book, but I'm aware that she's written other novels and whatnot. <-I didn't even know they'd broken up - bonus! So, this volume is mostly about getting the gang back together. She's on the cover, it's alluded to in the blurb, and her resurrection happens in the first few pages. Now, before you get pissy, that's not a spoiler. The big thing about this one is that Gert is back from the dead. While I'm sure I would have gotten more out of Find Your Way Home if I had been a longtime reader of these guys, I felt as though Rowell did a good enough job explaining the plot up til now for someone like myself who only had a basic working knowledge of the characters. So, when I saw that there was a new run starting I kind of wondered if I'd be able to keep up. My point is that I really didn't know the characters well, and had no idea how that run ended. I read the first few volumes of the original Runaways, and then for random reasons I can't really remember, never finished it out.

Runaways volume one