Marvel Teases New Runaways Series

It seems like Marvel’s Runaways are about to make a big return to the Marvel Comics Universe.

Marvel Comics today released the first teaser for what appears to be a new Runaways series.

The teaser features Nico Minoru as drawn by Kris Anka and is accompanied by a tagline to “get ready to run” in 2017.

As is trying to preemptively get readers back up to speed, the teaser recalls in very general terms Nico’s entire history through the past Runaways series. See it below.

Nico is a “goth girl” who was born to supervillain parents with arcane powers. She inherited the Staff of One, a mystical artifact capable of casting practically any spell, but only once. She took over as leader of the Runaways after original leader Alex Wilder was revealed to be a traitor. She notorious for kissing the wrong people and for complicated romances with her teammates.

Nico has been one of the more active Runaways since the team’s last ongoing series. She was one of the teenagers captured and taken forced to play Arcade’s twisted game in Avengers Arena. She infiltrated the Masters of Evil in Avengers Underground. Later, she joined the She-Hulk’s A-Force team.

No word yet on a creative team for the presumed new Runaways series, but it seems likely that more character teasers will arrive throughout the week.

Runaways follows a group of six teenagers in the Marvel universe – Nico Minoru, Karolina Dean, Molly Hayes, Chase Stein, Alex Wilder, and Gertrude Yorkes – who discover that their parents are secretly members of a supervillain cabal called The Pride. After deciding they’re no longer safe in their own homes, the kids go on the run. In the midst of hiding from their elders, the teens learn about themselves and become a family of their own.

Runaways was created in 2003 by writer Brian K. Vaughan (Saga, Y: The Last Man) and artist Adrian Alphona (Ms. Marvel, Uncanny X-Force) for Marvel’s now defunct Tsunami imprint. Originally intended as a miniseries, Runaways proved popular enough for Marvel to turn it into a monthly ongoing series. Runaways helped earn Vaughan an Eisner Award and was named on the 2006 American Library Association’s YALSA Top Ten Books for Young Adults list.

Vaughan and Alphona departed in 2007. A series of other creative teams took over Runaways for a time, including Avengers director Joss Whedon. Eventually, the series ended, with the characters being integrated into the larger Marvel universe. Victor Mancha, Ultron’s son and a late edition to the team, became an Avenger, and Nico Minoru became a member of A-Force.

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