The kids of course, freak out and slowly figure out the deal with their parents as they go on the run. What if your philanthropic parents were in truth ritually sacrificing people in those meetings? That's what happens with the kids in Runaways. I think every kid has wondered at one time or another if their parents were actually evil. pronto! And then let’s all step up to the plate and help those teenagers fight the bad guys! If you have not read Runaways, do yourself a favor and check it out. Lots of it! Seriously, superhero comics don't get much better than this. It’s a great premise that, sadly, becomes more relevant by the minute (even if Donald Trump should not be elected on November 8th), dressed up as genre fare but executed with skill, spunk, charm and wit. The kind of super-villains, as it turns out, who don’t even shy away from taking out their own children in order to protect their sinister and very profitable secret society. When the six teenage protagonists of Runaways are forced to spend a few hours together during their parents’ annual charitable get-together, they are shocked to discover that the so-called charity work is merely cover-up for a criminal, downright evil organization called “The Pride,” and that their parents are, in plain fact, super-villains. But what if those guardians don’t actually deserve all that reverence? What if they were never as benevolent as we were brought up to believe? Looking at the current economic and environmental state of the world, today’s youth may well raise the question: Have our parents secretly been the bad guys all along? Reverence for parental figures has traditionally been held up as an untouchable virtue in superhero comics, with heroes like the Batman and Spider-Man devoting their entire lives to the memory of their guardians. “Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged.”

The pride brian k vaughan