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individual story arcs) as well as subsequently published material. Pride and Joy (#1– 6)
introduces the main characters and their relationships with their parents, providing
the initial main generational confl ict concept and thrust of the series. Teenage Waste-
land (#7–12) continues the saga of the parents’ search for the runaway children with
the involvement of Marvel’s original teen runaway crime fi ghters, Cloak and Dagger.
Th e Good Die Young collects the fi nal issues from the fi rst volume, #13–18, relating
the last battle with the evil parents and the identity of the team mole. Five individual
digests compose the second volume of the series: Tr u e B e l i e v e rs (#1– 6), in which a
wide variety of evil characters in the Marvel universe swarm to Los Angeles to fi ll
the vacuum left by the defeat of the Pride; Escape to New York (#7–12) continues
the adventure with Cloak and Dagger and the New Avengers ; Parental Guidance
(#13–18) centers on Molly Hayes’s exploits with a youthful street gang; Live Fast
(#19–24) focuses on decisions that must be made for the entire group; and Dead End
Kids (#25–30) by Whedon and Ryan takes the group back to New York as well as a
century into the past. Th e next two digests feature writer Moore and artists Ramos
and Miyazawa in their supernatural spin on the adventures: Dead Wrong (#1– 6) and
Rock Zombies (#7–10). A fi lm version of the comic is forthcoming with scripting by
Vaughan.
Th ere have also been a number of tie-ins with other series, notably Civil War :
Young Avengers/Runaways (also called Civil War: Young Avengers & Runaways in the
collected edition), a miniseries tie-in to Marvel Comics’ Civil War crossover event.
Th e miniseries was written by Zeb Wells with art by Stefano Caselli. Young Avengers
co-creator Allan Heinberg and Runaways co-creator Vaughan served as creative con-
sultants to Wells. A second team-up between the characters from Runaways and Yo u n g
Ave nge rs , Secret Invasion: Runaways/Young Avengers , was written by Chris Yost with
art by Miyazawa. Mystic Arcana , published in 2007 as a series of four one-shot titles
contains an individual main story followed by a back-up story whose plot continues
through all four books. Th e main story in each book focuses upon a diff erent fi ctional
character, each of whom in previous Marvel publications have had associations with
magic. In Mystic Arcana: Sister Grimm , Nico Minoru discovers her family’s heirloom,
the Black Mirror.
Runaways has been recommended by various library organizations for teen readers.
It has won the 2006 Harvey Award for Best Continuing or Limited Series and Shuster
awards, “Voters Choice — Outstanding International Creator” (2006, 2007), and was
nominated for the Georgia Peach Award for Teen Readers in 2007.
Gail de Vos
RUSSELL, P. CRAIG (1951–). Craig Russell is a prominent illustrator, writer, and adapter.
While earning his BFA in painting at the University of Cincinnati, awarded in 1973, he
began drawing professionally for Marvel. After apprenticing under Dan Adkins, Rus-
sell’s fi rst penciling job was Morbius, the Living Vampire. Russell’s opinion of his fi rst
published work is unclear, as he does not include it in his Opus listings (Russell lists all
