Runaways Books in Order

Rainbow Rowell’s Runaways run picks up an existing Marvel team and asks what happens when former child heroes try to build a life again. Years ago, a group of teenagers discovered their parents were supervillains and literally ran away together. By the time this series begins, they have scattered, grown apart and, in one case, died.

Volume 1, Find Your Way Home, starts with Chase time traveling to pull Gert Yorkes back from the moment of her death. That desperate act yanks the rest of the original group back into each other’s orbit. Nico, Karolina, Molly, Victor and Old Lace the dinosaur all have new commitments and scars, yet they slowly agree to share a ramshackle hostel in Los Angeles and try being a family again, even if no one is quite sure what that means.

Across the later volumes, the team keeps bumping into the long shadow of their parents and their own bad choices. Best Friends Forever leans into crushes, jokes and superhero mishaps while giving Molly a tempting offer that could give her a more stable life. That Was Yesterday brings back Alex Wilder and a trio of ancient gods, forcing everyone to face old betrayals and the cost of Nico’s magic. In But You Can’t Hide, the Runaways are tired and nursing a broken home, but they still have to decide whether it is worth patching things up.

Canon Fodder and Come Away with Me push the kids further into the wider Marvel universe. A mysterious benefactor offers them a glossy new base and a chance at being an official Los Angeles superteam, but the strings attached are not what they seem. Later, the gang finds themselves back in high school halls and mutant politics, with Molly being courted by the island of Krakoa and tensions rising around who gets to leave and who has to stay.

Through all of this, the heart of the series stays small, rooted in late night kitchen talks, shared chores and the nagging fear that this makeshift family could fall apart again.

Rowell’s Runaways balances capes and quips with the emotional weight of growing up. There are battles with time travelers, robots and cosmic threats, but the biggest stakes are often about trust; whether Nico and Karolina can make their relationship work, whether Gert can forgive people for moving on without her, whether Molly will trade freedom for security. The upcoming Think Of The Children storyline jumps into a future ruled by Doctor Doom and asks the team, once again, to decide what they are willing to risk for each other.

If you are new to these characters, you can comfortably start with Runaways, Vol. 1: Find Your Way Home and read straight through Rowell’s collected volumes. Longtime fans will find plenty of nods to earlier eras, but the focus stays on character growth, found family and the feeling that saving the world is only half as hard as figuring out where you belong afterward.