RunawaysNo. 1: Pride and Joy
by Brian Vaughan et al.
Do you
think your parents overbearing? Jerks? Or just really, really, really annoying?
[wait for
responses]
Teenagers
Alex, Karolina, Gert, Chase, Molly, and Nico, would probably
agree—sometimes—but mostly mom and dad are just, well, parents, and they love
them.
They're typical teenagers: goth chick, smart kid, jock—and they mostly
get along because their parents are friends.
So it's a
bit of shock when they attend what's supposed to be a dinner party thing—a
boring "just parents" get-together and they witness mom and dad
murdering someone—and not just murder—human sacrifice.
Mom and dad
aren't just kind of irritating. They're greedy, overbearing—and EVIL.
What do you
do? Pretend you don't know anything? What if you let something slip? What if
their parents were only pretending to care about them, and they actually
plan to use their kids in some completely evil scheme—?
Alex,
Karolina, Gert, Chase, Molly, and Nico have to run away. And of course their
parents—and their evil henchmen—come after them. Luckily for these teenagers,
they're no more "normal" than their parents, and life on the run
brings out strange new talents. Mutants, aliens, werewolves—their whole world
has gone crazy and they're in the middle of it.
What do you
do when you discover your parents are super-villains?
Read
Runaways: Volume 1, "Pride and Joy" and find out!
Booktalk by
Matt Laxton, Lynnwood Library & K. Edwards, King County Library System
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