The Runaways: Teenage Wasteland

     Runaways is a series about 6 kids who find out their parents are all part of a evil secret society called The Pride. The Pride is trying to help these monsters turn the world into a wonderful safe garden, but to do so, they have to wipe out mankind. Once all the kids: Alex, Nico, Chase, Gert, Molly, and Karoline, find out these horrible things about their parents, they run away and try to find out a way to over throw their parents. The thing is, their parent all have superpowers, but the runaways then realize they have powers also.
     Teenage Wasteland is the 2nd book in the Runaways series, the 1st one I read at school during our graphic novel course. Teenage Wasteland is an amazing book that reflects on the teenagers trying to find out more about The Pride and how they can stop it. They also get a visit from Cloak and Dagger, who think that the runaways are the bad guys. This results in a huge fight thats one of the first times the kids get to test out their newly discovered powers.
     The graphics are amazing in this book. Takeshi Miyazawa, the person who does the pictures, can really work her magic with a pencil. Also, Brian K. Vaughan, the writer, is very creative and has thought out this story to every twist and turn. His style of showing you the Runaways for most of the book and then giving you a few pages to show you how the parents (who make up The Pride) are doing now that they know their own children are trying to destroy what they've build up for them and how willing they are to fight back. Great Job Brian! Keep up the good work.
     I'd give it a 6.5.
     Next comes Only the Good Die Young, which I've heard has great reviews and has something to do with one of the Runaways being loyal to the Pride, risking the lives of the other Runaways...