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Runaways: Battleworld
by ND Stevenson
A fairly average Secret Wars title, this book reads more like Avengers Academy or Avengers Arena than Runaways. It's a group of alternate-universe Marvel hero teens in high school who discover, *yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnn, I have definitely read this premise repeatedly in the 21st century* that their school is trying to kill them. Friends are made, alliances are forged, betrayal, love, blah blah blah blah blah.
The school is run by a waaaaaaaaaaaay out of character Valeria Richards, aka Doom's daughter in this universe, and she is unrecognizable in this book. Instead of one of the smartest people in the world, trying to figure out her "father's" plans like she does in the main book, she's just a bratty evil placeholder here.
It's not terrible. [a:Sanford Greene|509805|Sanford Greene|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1576536414p2/509805.jpg]'s art looks great (though I'm not a fan of the color blocked page concept), and the story isn't completely without charm. But it's only connection to the actual Runaways books is Princess Powerful. And instead of running away from parents, like the rebellious characters from the actual Runaways books, they're running away from a school that's trying to kill them, which, you know, makes sense. But doesn't make them runaways.
The book also contains Secret Wars: Secret Love #1, which was decidedly not what I was looking for in a Secret Wars comic.
The school is run by a waaaaaaaaaaaay out of character Valeria Richards, aka Doom's daughter in this universe, and she is unrecognizable in this book. Instead of one of the smartest people in the world, trying to figure out her "father's" plans like she does in the main book, she's just a bratty evil placeholder here.
It's not terrible. [a:Sanford Greene|509805|Sanford Greene|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1576536414p2/509805.jpg]'s art looks great (though I'm not a fan of the color blocked page concept), and the story isn't completely without charm. But it's only connection to the actual Runaways books is Princess Powerful. And instead of running away from parents, like the rebellious characters from the actual Runaways books, they're running away from a school that's trying to kill them, which, you know, makes sense. But doesn't make them runaways.
The book also contains Secret Wars: Secret Love #1, which was decidedly not what I was looking for in a Secret Wars comic.