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  • Hardcover: 152 pages
  • Publisher: Marvel Comics (6 Aug 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0785128530
  • ISBN-13: 978-0785128533
  • Product Dimensions: 26.4 x 17.5 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Vintage Whedon, Classic Runaways... or both! , 15 Sep 2008
By Supergnu (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews
As the reviews below show, there are two apporaches to this title:

Either you review it as a Joss Whedon creation, or as an installment in Brian K. Vaughan's "Runaways"-series. Being a great fan of both, so I'm happy to see the two copme together.

Runaways is a newer Marvel title. The story centers around a bunch of ordinary teens, who discover that their parents are super-villains, and that they (well, some of them) have powers too! Only one thing to do: run away, and oppose the evil parents.

Whedon has now taken over the series, and it is hard to tell where he is going with it. Without spoling too much, I can say that old enemies reappear, Whedon takes the heroes to a new and interesting scene of his own devising, and yet another member is added to the group.

The nice touch, I think, is a general ambiguity towards the whole hero- business. The protagonists are kids trying to find a foothold a the world filled with super-powered individuals. Of course, the rag-tag bunch get caught up in all sorts of drama, but like most of Whedon's work, it is mainly character-based. He is an excellent choice to take up the writer's mantle after Vaughan.

This book is NOT a good place to start, if you haven't read the Runaways series. Sorry, Joss-fans. Instead, get your nerdy paws on the first books, and then move on to this. You won't regret it.

Overall, this is a well written and imaginative comic-title, with laughs, character development and an intigueing setting.

If you're already a fan of Runaways, pick it up right away.
If you're a fan of Whedon, get to know the Runaways-series, and then enjoy this.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, 26 May 2009
By Dick Grayson "NW" (Gotham, USA) - See all my reviews
  
A lot of reviews criticising Whedon's seemingly aimless take on the Runaways miss the point that since the conclusion of the storyline dealing with the kids' parents, there's not really much point to the series. Runaways was always a concept with a finite lifespan, and that lifespan came to an end when the kids ran out of things to 'rebel' against or make petulant comments about, with early collections already showing their age less than five years removed from their publication, the True Believers arc essentially reducing the team to fighting their evil doubles. Runaways features a gender and ethnically-diverse cast and was obviously constructed with the franchise and eventual movie version in mind, and extending the title beyond the plot for those has seen it stretched thin more than BKV-groupies want to admit.
Whedon seems to take the blame for the aimlessness of the title despite there being at least three volumes before this one written by Vaughan (and at least one awful spin-off featuring Nico) where the kids simply stumble across adventure or have super-powered characters chasing them in a thinly-veiled recycling of the Pride storyline, but Whedon at least makes their exploits here a matter of escalation from their runaway status, even factoring in some subversive observations about the Runaways concept when compared to the realities of homeless children/kids from bad parents when the team are thrown 100 years into the past and encounter racism, sexual abuse, child murder, and street-gang warfare - all elements that should by rights already have reared their head in a story about runaway teens living rough in Los Angeles, but have thus far been avoided in favor of juvenile wish-fulfillment where kids who run away from their 'evil' parents end up with super powers and talking spaceships while living in secret hideouts and Malibu beachfront mansions, only ever hanging out in LA's tourist hotspots. Whedon successfully hides these observations by placing the main bulk of the story in the 'alien' locale of 1907 New York, and the fact that he's deconstructing as well as adding to the Runaways' mythos is lost on the more fervent fanboys and fangirls unwilling to give anything that isn't Vaughan/Alphona's Runaways a chance, even though the team now acknowledge the stupidity of their own premise and work through it, rather than simply denying it in favor of supposed genre awareness.
Runaways: Dead End Kids is smart, funny and beautifully illustrated, far better in places than preceeding stories, and far more faithful to the slight characterisation than many are willing to credit it.
Highly recommended from this Runaways fan.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Don't run away from the Runaways, 28 Oct 2008
By IanW "ianw" (Sunderland, UK) - See all my reviews
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I'd read mixed reviews of the original comic series so despite being a fan of both Runaways and Joss Whedon, I was prepared to be disappointed. As you can guess from the title of this review, this is one occasion where I was happy to be wrong.

The opening scene setting chapters featuring the Kingpin, the Punisher and an enigmatic duo of old woman and flying man-monster were okay but it really takes off when the group end up in New York of a hundred years ago. This is a pretty brutal time of social oppression and social change and Whedon doesn't attempt to prettify it. There are people with powers but they too reflect the period so even the good guys aren't very nice at all. The Runaways find themselves in the middle between superheroes and villains, complicated by their own inter-team strife, falling love, trying to find a way back home, and more. By the end, everything has been satisfactorily wrapped up.

Whedon has a very good handle on the characters (and he doesn't even have to invent a lesbian couple) and their interactions. The dialogue is sharp and Michael Ryan's art is the best the series has seen so far. This is as good as Whedon's Astonishing X-men and it's a shame he's left the title.

If you like fun, well-written, well-illustrated, teen superhero comics, then it doesn't get much better than this.
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