# Runaways: The Comic question (WARNING: Spoilers)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 24, 2007, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaways-the-comic-question-warning-spoilers/412948 "2007-07-24T12:46:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaways-the-comic-question-warning-spoilers/412948/1 "2007-07-24T12:46:21Z")

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Okay, so I got the first volume after hearing good things - jeez, I had to buy it in hardcover! Are these things collectible or something?

It was pretty good - the art was interesting and the premise a nice start. But the issues in the volume only lead up to the point where Alex, the putative hero and central character (to me as I was casually reading it) turns out to be the traitor. Kinda felt like it was a cute trick plot-twisty-wise, but not really good at getting me engaged into the characters - a bit of a betrayal, for want of a better term.

Yet the series was popular past this volume, right? So the narrative recovers well from this? Have I misread something? The book kinda slid from my hands around midnight last night…

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaways-the-comic-question-warning-spoilers/412948/2 "2007-07-24T13:07:37Z")

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I thought the second volume worked well. Beyond that I couldn’t say.