Runaways Vol. 4

This is Volume 4 of Marvel's Runaways (2017) series, corresponding to the English collection Runaways Vol. 4: But You Can't Hide and collecting issues #19–24. Runaways follows a group of Los Angeles teenagers who discover that their parents belong to a criminal organization called The Pride, and run away with the powers and equipment they inherited from their parents, forming a team with no costumes, no headquarters, and not much of a team at all. In 2017, writer Rainbow Rowell and artist Kris Anka relaunched the series, reuniting the original cast—Nico, Karolina, Chase, Molly, Gertrude, and Old Lace—for a new chapter built around the question of whether they are teammates, family, or just a bunch of orphans thrown together. After the earth-shattering events of Volume 3, this volume deals with the aftermath: the team is fractured, Alex Wilder has chosen to leave, and whether anyone will follow him becomes one of the open questions. Those who stay are exhausted and heartbroken, with a wrecked home to repair and even harder-to-name cracks between them to mend. The rebuilding is literal as well as metaphorical—these people have never learned how to live together safely. The volume continues the series' signature style: driven by relationships rather than grand events, it wraps teenage anxieties about intimacy, belonging, and identity in a superhero shell and makes them both funny and painfully sharp.