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If you want to read Runaways, it is a series to simply read in order since it's not that long. The two size stories (Civil War: Young Avengers & Runaways and Secret Invasion: Runaways/Young Avengers) are alright but not really essential. Volume 3 (Books 9-1) was mediocre and ends kind of abruptly. Volume 1 (Books 1-3) and Volume 2 (Books 4-8) were really, really good. Runaways collects into 3 volumes covering 11 books (or 3 books if you buy the larger volume version) plus two side books.

Vaughan, seemingly effortlessly, does that. The wind-down of a story has to be equally as good as the climax, answering any questions that weren't answered at that climatic moment, and at the same time giving a little nod to every little plot thread that was addressed earlier in the work.

That's a problem many writers have, whether it be in prose, comics, or script-writing. There's not much action-though there is some-but it's a perfect wind-down if I've ever read one. The final issue collected in this volume is one of the best comics I've read, period. You don't get the kind of quirky fantasy-drama that "Runaways" brings to the table without a price, and the usage of deus ex machina in this volume was that price. However, the story is simply tasty enough to ignore that. Deus ex machina is heavily put to use here, from the convenient way that Chase both found and was able to operate his parent's "ship" as well as the sudden, unexplained appearance of a very popular Marvel hero at the end, who neatly brings things to a close.

No one in this story is pure evil there are so many ways to interpret this story that it may in fact leave you pondering it for long after you put it down. Also, instead of the straightforward good versus evil that many of Marvel comics offer up, "Runaways" is really all about ambiguity. The story, simple as it is (kids rush to stop their evil parents from sacrificing the soul of an innocent girl to giant monsters), will leave you satisfied with what you've got, though still wanting more.

The villainous characters that make up The Pride, the primary villains of the series, are finally-and gracefully-fleshed out. This volume, collecting issues thirteen through eighteen of the first run of "Runaways," ties up every loose end perfectly.