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The Year of the Runaways , by Sunjeev Sahota (Knopf) .
Kali rules these lost runaways by being a maternal figure.
Marvel Comics' Runaways has been an underdog in superhero comics.
"I sort of grew up working on Runaways," Alphona adds.
Hulu's Runaways faced a rare challenge for a superhero show.
Going into Runaways, I thought I knew what to expect.
Here's hoping Runaways doesn't break with tradition in that regard.
Season three of "Runaways" hits Hulu on Friday, December 13.
Later there were pirates, runaways, smugglers and the occasional aristocrat.
Last year, there were about 14,000 runaways in the state.
Lita [Ford, the Runaways guitarist] and I both lived there.
Season 2 of Runaways premieres on Hulu on Friday, December 21st.
Runaways is the most autonomous project in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Marvel's The Runaways is getting turned into a series for Hulu.
Many missing children of color are classified as runaways, Wilson said.
"Luke Cage" and "Marvel's Runaways" have diversified the comics-TV lineup.
So starting in September, I'll be the ongoing writer for Runaways.
Nor was the steady stream of runaways to the North insignificant.
The first three episodes of Marvel's Runaways premiere on November 21.
Monto was a last resort for runaways, widows and abandoned wives.
In her EW interview, Rowell likened Runaways to her previous work, encouraging her fans to sample the world of Marvel's super teens: One thing that is good about the Runaways is that they have a short history.
More information about runaways in New England is coming to light, too.
Runaways has come under two specific, distinct criticisms since it first debuted.
The Runaways never reached Avengers or X-Men status in the comics.
But then, more puzzlingly, the teen hero drama Runaways landed on Hulu.
Gregg Sulkin currently stars as Chase Stein on Marvel's Hulu series "Runaways."
Kristen Stewart played a young Joan Jett in 2010's "The Runaways."
"We have juvenile runaways who run multiple times," she told the newspaper .
When our runaways eventually hook up with Sarah (Kirsten Dunst), Alton's mother
To not search for runaways is a dereliction of the agency's duty.
They showed photographs of the two runaways to residents who stepped outside.
Cherie Currie of The Runaways was an actual character in the movie.
Recently, he helped broker Lyft's integration into Marvel's "Runaways," which streams on Hulu.
The first season of Marvel's Runaways is currently available to stream on Hulu.
In this deluge of darkness, Marvel's Runaways is a breath of fresh air.
PC: What's a favorite look you've worn as Molly Hernandez while filming Runaways?
That night they were joined for dinner by a trio of English runaways.
The first three episodes of Runaways are currently available to stream on Hulu.
That unconventional approach to character design visually distinguished Runaways from other superhero comics.
And I also really liked her as young Joan Jett in The Runaways.
Sheriff's deputies, far from investigating the property, simply returned runaways to the home.
The runaways soon reunite, ambling down the road in a brief buddy movie.
South Carolina adopted its first "Act to Prevent Runaways" as early as 19503.
For their freedom, runaways were required to renounce their faith and adopt Catholicism.
Homeland Security officials predict that few of these runaways will ever be found.
Hulu's version of Runaways has kept the basic idea of its source material, but Schwartz said that Vaughan wrote Runaways' first run — which ended after just 18 issues — in a rush, constantly thinking it would be canceled out from under him.
Marvel's The Runaways is the latest Marvel TV show, premiering on Hulu next month.
Chase does his best Peter Kavinsky in Runaways Season 2, and it's just lovely.
"Runaways is really a teen family drama disguised as a superhero book," says Strain.
When she admitted Runaways was her favorite comic, I knew it had to happen.
Hulu's 10-episode opening season of Runaways has been a bit of a drag.
Not too far away, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury is filled with hippies and runaways.
In late 1975, Kim Fowley invited me to see his new band, the Runaways.
Jett began her music career in 1975 with the all-girl group The Runaways.
Henkes's and Venkatraman's books feature gentle humor, but "The Runaways" is flat-out hilarious.
It features some legendary artists such as Michael Jackson, David Bowie, and the Runaways.
Schwartz said the first episode of Runaways will focus on the events that reveal the true allegiances of the Runaways' parents, but the second episode will tell that story from the parents' point of view, with the two storylines colliding after that.
Incredibles 2 is a family sitcom, Runaways is high-school melodrama, Venom is horror/comedy.
Unwind follows three teens bound for unwinding who become runaways, determined to save their lives.
"[Runaways] hooked me immediately because I felt like I knew these kids," says Kris Anka.
There she encounters a pack of kids—orphans, runaways, and scavengers—even younger than her.
Binge yourself some Runaways and then spend December browsing the extensive depths of Hulu's library.
Why do I continue to watch Marvel's Runaways, a show I find plodding and dull?
We spent six months crafting "Runaways" using a lot of improvisation (and profound personal sharing).
The NCMEC no longer distinguishes between runaways and abductions on their posters of missing children.
The warrants for runaways are often executed like traditional arrest warrants, with handcuffs and lockups.
But someone sent a mysterious message to Jonah… Is there a mole in the Runaways?
From "American Horror Story" to "Marvel's Runaways," here's a chronological list of notable returning series.
Runaways, immigrants and drug users are more at risk Sex trafficking victims are overwhelmingly women.
After his death, in 2015, he was accused of rape by a former Runaways bassist.
Laws regarding aiding runaways can prevent nonprofits focused on child marriage from assisting girls in need.
Law enforcement agencies have been criticized in recent years for assuming missing black girls are runaways.
It creates an early mystery and drives a compelling wedge between the Runaways and their parents.
Hulu will be hyping the second season of Marvel's Runaways, and Starz will promote American Gods.
With this Runaways alteration, it's clear that 13 Reasons Why was more than a conversation-starter.
If runaways have family in China, those left behind are often subject to threats and harassment.
The film also includes a previously unreleased track called "Runaways," sot that's something to live for. 
The Timeless and Runaways actress and her husband welcomed their third child together on Sunday, Nov.
Many of them are former foster children or runaways, or were victims of abuse at home.
Law enforcement often classify children of color as runaways without having all the details, Wilson said.
Runaways were bolting at an alarming rate, Mr. Villano said: 173 calls from 2014 to 2017.
Other runaways are staying in major cities, Anderson said, and will find illegal work as cleaners.
"Saudi men will threaten to turn in runaways unless they have sex with them," Anderson said.
The Runaways and the Go-Go's were acting the way we saw men act in music.
The majority of children who go missing in New York are runaways, according to the report.
Some of these young people are runaways; others leave abusive homes; and many identify as LGBTQ.
Runaways is not a brilliant show, but it fits nicely into the television landscape of superhero shows.
They bring to the table a jaw-dropping energy reminiscent of The Runaways and The Go-Go's.
The setting also gives Runaways' costume and set design a chance to depart from the Marvel norm.
They would not be struck by the slow-moving vehicles so much as be frightened into runaways.
Sneak them into Marvel's Runaways (evil dads!), The Umbrella Academy, or any of The CW's DC shows.
I experience a melancholy pause when meaning is lost, when words drift like runaways far from home.
So it makes sense that Runaways showrunners Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage would build on this legacy.
Lauper was once a runway, herself, and lived in a homeless shelter for runaways as a teen.
Swados, then a young experimental composer, based the collage-like work on her interactions with teen runaways.
Most runaways did not head north, and most slaves who sought their liberty did not run away.
It's an adaptation of Runaways, a series about teenagers who run away after discovering their parents are supervillains.
Dogs are often used in tactical situations to sniff out threats, track dangerous persons and chase down runaways.
His "Runaways" (1993) lithographs consist of accounts given by friends who describe him for the benefit of others.
They'll join Marvel's Runaways and the slate of animated Marvel shows that the two companies also recently announced.
With Hulu's Runaways, another property created after 2000, Marvel Television makes a similarly smooth transition to the screen.
Runaways was originally in development as a film that would have been an earlier entry in the MCU.
The Guardians Of The Galaxy films expanded the MCU's cosmic landscape, opening the door for Runaways' alien characters.
Another idea has the stars becoming runaways after a companion explodes, shooting the star off into the cosmos.
These programs can focus on intervening at a school level or providing counseling for the families of runaways.
R. Kelly, the Runaways, Kesha — stories of abuse long preceded Harvey Weinstein, and continue to trigger news alerts.
Many were runaways, fleeing their upbringings for a variety of reasons, including physical and sexual abuse by relatives.
To bring Runaways to the page, he took a time-honored storytelling trope – the inevitable struggle between children and their parents – and gave it a comic book twist: the Runaways band together after discovering their parents, who ultimately gave them their powers, are members of a secret cabal of supervillains.
The new Runaways debuted this week, and it confirms the suspicion that Rowell and fashion-focused artist Kris Anka are the perfect team to revive this beloved group of stylish misfits; Runaways No. 1 is bright, bold, and immediately engaging, picking back up with the characters in their current Marvel chronology.
According to Hulu: The streaming service has picked up Marvel's Runaways in its first series order with Marvel Television.
The episode of the week for January 7 through 13 is "Hostile," the first season finale of Hulu's Runaways.
For one, the Runaways parents probably needed some shading in, given that their comic counterparts were flatly, generically evil.
Like the Netflix Marvel shows, Runaways is nominally set in the same universe as the Avengers, but, shyyeaah, whatever.
In 2018, Hulu is getting Runaways, based on Brian K. Vaughan's Eisner award-winning series of the same name.
Most books about 14-year-old runaways with criminal tendencies would be aimed squarely at the young adult market.
Actress Lyrica Okano (Runaways) brought together a few friends to help her get ready for the big meet-up.
But to my relief — and, yes, surprise — their teen-soap savvy proves to be a fitting match for Runaways.
In addition, Wersching will return to her role as Church of Gibborim leader Leslie Dean in Runaways on Hulu.
Negan isn't buying Rick and crew's stories about Maggie's death, and sends Simon to look for any Alexandria runaways.
Series like Hulu's "Runaways," ABC's "Agents of Shield," Netflix's "Jessica Jones," and the "Deadpool" movies have included LGBTQ characters.
Based on a Marvel Comics series of the same name, the two seasons of "Runaways" are available to stream.
She started out with The Runaways, but has fronted her own band, Joan JETT and the Blackhearts, for years.
Northern legislatures, for their part, passed "personal liberty" laws to make it harder for slaveholders to recover their runaways.
Besides the change of cast, what sets The Runaways apart from other shows of the similar kind is the setting.
I was working on Runaways — which is still going — and in that time, I was deliberately not working on novels.
This autonomy is the most important aspect of Runaways' first story arc, which became the foundation of the TV series.
Eventually a general meeting was arranged, and both sides were thrilled to discover that Runaways was foremost in everyone's mind.
The Timeless and Runaways star, 41, is expecting her third child with husband Stephen Full, her rep confirms to PEOPLE.
Some get classified as runaways When most people think of missing children, they think of young children abducted by strangers.
About six in 10 of those children were runaways, and almost all of the rest were abducted by a relative.
Together, such runaways likely outnumbered those who, aided by Northern abolitionists, made their way to free states or to Canada.
Many of the girls and boys are runaways or foster children whose disappearances rarely set off a real Amber Alert.
Critics were famously tough on the Runaways as women, and the Blackhearts were initially rejected by dozens of record labels.
In 2018, the NCMEC said one in seven of the 23,000 juvenile runaways were likely the victims of child sex trafficking.
"Cherry Bomb" was written by Jett and former producer Kim Fowley, and it was performed by The Runaways, Jett's former band.
Police do sometimes find minors—mostly older teenagers, many runaways from state homes or foster care—engaging in prostitution, of course.
Really that's all The Runaways were doing: trying to express ourselves the way we knew how, putting it into our songs.
Narratively, Runaways stands apart from other Marvel films and series, but it still benefits from the framework established by those projects.
Runaways showrunners Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage were faced with a choice when translating this aspect of Nico's character to screen.
Virginia Gardner, who plays Karolina on the show, was sure to stress that Runaways had violence but it wasn't actually violent.
There's a scrappy band of runaways Ruby joins and a leader of a children's retreat that is Not What It Seems.
"How does the police dept know they are runaways, what clues do you have?" one woman challenged the department on Facebook.
Hell, this year legendary rocker and former guitarist of the Runaways, Lita Ford, closed the thing out with a live set.
The Runaways, written by Saga creator Brian K. Vaughan with art from Ms. Marvel artist Adrian Alphona, debuted back in 2003.
Jett originally recorded the song around 1979 as she launched her solo career following the breakdown of her band the Runaways.
Hulu's "Runaways" will end with its upcoming third season and ABC's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." is concluding with its upcoming season seven.
When it opened, "Runaways" seemed to bear definite familial resemblances to other unorthodox hit musicals to have emerged from the Public.
Only some of the period references — and the lack of cellphones onstage — remind us that "Runaways" originated nearly 40 years ago.
If that's not enough to convince you of Runaways' potential, there's a telepathic velociraptor named Old Lace in the mix too.
"Runaways" takes Marvel's stock theme of teenage rebellion to its logical conclusion as six teenagers unite to battle their own parents.
The vast majority of missing children are runaways, and children running away are not going to take their smartwatches with them.
Her first band, the all-girl Runaways, stirred controversy in the 1970s while bridging the aesthetic gap between glam and punk.
A review of foster care policies across the country shows no other similar practice of using arrest warrants to detain runaways.
It's the story of an unnamed old man, his master and a monster — the plantation mastiff trained to hunt down runaways.
If they try to flee an abusive marriage, they are turned away from shelters and may be treated as simple runaways.
So Brian K. Vaughan's Marvel comic book series "Runaways" might have seemed a natural fit for them to adapt to television.
Hulu's adaptation of the popular Marvel comic series Runaways has promise, and ABC's new comedy The Mayor is warm and funny.
And while Runaways can still feel like a show written about teens by adults (here's looking at you, #blessed selfies and rando man at a rager peddling pills by asking girls if they "want to party"), for the most part, Runaways demonstrates empathy for its characters by allotting them time and consideration beyond their most basic descriptors.
Instead, the corporate runaways are winning and taking easy money out of the pockets of the United States taxpayer, Mr. Solomon writes.
New databases are enabling historians and descendants of slaves to piece together family trees and identify patterns in the lives of runaways.
For all the DNA it shares with superhero shows and teen soaps alike, Marvel's Runaways isn't quite like anything else on television.
For people who haven't read comics, you can hand them Runaways and say, 'You're going to fall in love with these characters.
The Runaways comics were exciting in part because they forced the young heroes to rise to the challenge of fighting implacable foes.
With its high school-aged heroes and romance plots, Cloak & Dagger, in theory, should have a lot in common with Hulu's Runaways.
The attempt to redeem Jeri is no more successful than the soap-opera-style plots foisted on the supervillain parents in Runaways.
Runaways' characters didn't wear superhero costumes in the comic; they had wardrobes tailored to their personalities, and their clothes changed over time.
It also gives us more time to get to know them — which, even for an established Runaways fan like me, proved important.
Most recently, Marvel's Runaways, a teen show on Hulu, gave us Karolina Dean, a lesbian superhero who falls for her friend Nico.
KATE SCHELLENBACH and TRINI ALVARADO both appeared in the original production of "Runaways" as preteens: SCHELLENBACH She really clicked into kids' minds.
In that movie, Mr. Huddleston's gang is about to rob a group of runaways (who include Jeff Bridges in a starring role).
What "Runaways" is going for is a group mentality, a gathering of injured souls who merge into one vital, hungry, desperate voice.
African runaways also were given sanctuary by indigenous Indian societies such as the Yamassee and joined them in raids against the British.
He came with two other teenage runaways, ushered away before sunrise on motorcycles by FARC militiamen from a small river port town.
Runaways tells the story of six teenagers who find out their parents are actual supervillains in a powerful group called the Pride.
The Runaways property, which debuted in 2003 in a comic by Brian K. Vaughn, is remembered for being diverse for its time.
Marvel's "Runaways" is back for a third season on Hulu this winter, and it'll pick up right after the previous season's cliffhanger.
On a February Saturday morning, I wander through the wooded edge of the park as two actors portray frightened but determined runaways.
Mr. Schwartz said that this push toward retooling the zippy superhero comic as a slower-paced family drama keeps "Runaways" more relatable.
The Runaways had crossovers within their story, but their initial story, these initial characters, and the Pride, live in their own world.
With mere weeks to go until the release of Marvel's Runaways, we finally have our first good look at the new series.
New York City has a handful of shelters specifically designated for this group of runaways, including the widely known Ali Forney Center.
Boleyn alleges he bragged about things such as auctioning off two members of the Runaways to be passed around during a party.
The genealogical society is expanding its databases related to African-American family trees, making it possible to connect names to ads for runaways.
Further compounding the challenge, fixed-wing drones need runaways, which you don't often find in the remote locations where drones are most useful.
Although we now head to Hulu for our Handmaid's Tale and Marvel's Runaways fix, there's more to the streaming service than bingeable shows.
I wrote all my stuff, took three months off, and was like, 'God, I wonder who is doing Runaways,' so I emailed Nick.
Runaways is one of the rare instances where its pilot warranted a two-hour runtime because of how much exposition is crammed in.
The smaller cast also tones down Runaways' convoluted relationship configurations, in favor of ones that are easier to follow but still emotionally complicated.
Marvel Comics stories tend to be set around New York City, and setting Runaways in Los Angeles gave the comic a breezier vibe.
The Runaways formula requires this isolation, allowing the characters to establish themselves as unique inhabitants of an underexplored area of this superhero universe.
Following Timeless' shocking season 2 finale, Wersching will return to her role as Church of Gibborim leader Leslie Dean in Runaways on Hulu.
He is the author of "Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial," which includes details and quotes from the Anthony Burns case.
The band's aesthetic—and that of the show—pulls from punk, 90s fashion, and 70s glamour, with especially strong nods to The Runaways.
Update: PC Gamer reports both characters will have new actors, with Ozioma Akagha (Runaways) voicing Alyx and James Moses Black (Logan) voicing Eli.
Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Cherie Currie, Sandy West, and Jackie Fox—The Runaways—are legendary, but so are reports of Fowley's reprehensible behavior.
Palozzolo says the victims of these crimes are often runaways or truck-stop prostitutes, which can make it harder to identify who's missing.
A police spokesperson says they believe all are runaways based on the circumstances of their disappearance, however, they say they cannot be certain.
So many children — among them runaways and so-called incorrigibles — were sent to the institution that it became the largest in the country.
What will remain are the ejected stars — pushed hundreds of light years away from Orion, runaways born in a burst of cosmic fireworks.
Think of them as Josie and the Pussycats or the Spice Girls, if the Spice Girls lived in LA and loved The Runaways.
Instead, the corporate runaways are winning — winning no good-American awards, but taking easy money out of the pockets of the United States taxpayer.
Right now, it's unclear exactly how angsty The Runaways is going to be — but that doesn't take away from the interesting cast and premise.
Ms. Swados, who was just 27 when she wrote "Runaways," was 64 when she died this week, of complications from surgery for esophageal cancer.
The girls had been living with a foster family in Binghamton, New York, when they disappeared and were initially reported as runaways, police said.
Marvel's Runaways Season 2 just premiered on Hulu, and while it's not exactly prestige television, we can't resist the love bonding its core characters.
If your friends haven't shut up about Handmaid's Tale or Runaways, maybe now's a good chance to check out what they've been talking about.
"The Runaways' place in Marvel's line-up is pretty much the same as it was in the best of times, off-center," says Lowe.
It demonstrates, through archival footage and interviews, how the American musician prefigured punk with her teenage girl band the Runaways in the late 1970s.
In moments of high stress – like Molly on Marvel's Runaways – Anissa exhibits super strength, and at the end of episode 2, she uses it.
But more than 460,000 children — runaways, abductions, lost or injured kids — go missing every year in the U.S., plus many more around the world.
The runaways' ringleader, Nico Minoru (Lyrica Okano), may not have inherited her parents' propensity for evil — but she certainly inherited their capacity for magic.
The takeaway: Runaways is fun, has "glow-y" lights, and, perhaps thanks to the 13 Reasons Why controversy, avoids problematic portrayals of self-harm.
Of those cases, 91 percent were classified as "endangered runaways," and only 1 percent were classified as kidnappings carried out by non-family members.
It's kind of stunning that Marvel's Runaways has only become a television show now, 14 years after the comic series made its initial debut.
Speaking of social dichotomy and forbidden love, we spent a lot of Runaways feeling for some unrequited crushes and becoming thoroughly invested in them.
The resulting legislation was the Fugitive Slave Act, an early example of zero tolerance that required the expedited return of runaways to their masters.
It was the Jett performance that made some suspect that the Swan was secretly Kristen Stewart, who portrayed the iconic rockstar in The Runaways.
Runaways, homeless youth, recent immigrants, minors among the LGBT community, drug users and those living in foster care are particularly at risk, experts says.
Unfortunately, Runaways, Hulu's TV series based on the Marvel comic created by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona, stumbled with the execution almost immediately.
These thickets and palmetto patches gave cover to runaways seeking sanctuary from Georgia, the Carolinas and other points north more than 200 years ago.
The crowd—a mix of artists, students, runaways and sex workers—was a "real mishmash of creativity and the dysfunctional underground scene," Terrill recalled.
From the looks of it, they've stayed pretty close to the source material: Our first look at the main characters in Hulu's THE RUNAWAYS series!
But because The Runaways is on Hulu and made by Disney-Marvel, this Marvel Comics-based show does not have mutants or X-Men. Nosiree.
"What we do with every show is we look at where the best place is," Loeb told Polygon when asked about bringing Runaways to Hulu.
Whereas most of the street boys that Retrak rescues are runaways who come to Addis Ababa voluntarily, girls are more often victims of human trafficking.
Marvel's Runaways debuts on Hulu on November 21, but Marvel Comics was already planning to revive the property before the TV series came to fruition.
Police and faculty believe they're just runaways, but gossip among the students suggests an urban legend, a death god / spirit called Boogiepop, might be involved.
Still, even with these gifted teens at its core, "Runaways" feels as if it's been marinating in the shallow end of the Marvel gene pool.
Police findings showed Mr. Epstein had engaged in sex acts with underage girls, some of them runaways or foster children, in his Palm Beach, Fla.
Many of them are runaways, or former foster children who are now too old for state services, or been victims of abuse or homophobia at home.
The Runaways, which has 62 issues total over three trade series, focuses on teen superheroes who find out their parents are supervillains in the Avengers universe.
More than 92 percent were endangered runaways, 4 percent were family abductions, 1 percent is lost or injured children — and only 1 percent is nonfamily abductions.
And overall, the adults on Runaways are frankly just stronger actors than their plucky kids, most of whom took their time stepping into their characters' shoes.
Christina Strain wasn't the original Runaways colorist, but she stuck around for the three runs that came after Vaughan and Alphona left the book in 2007.
The Runaways would occasionally appear in Marvel titles throughout the next eight years, primarily books with ties to the Avengers: They visited the Avengers Academy campus.
Similarly, in the season's opening episode, the Runaways are forced to live among Los Angeles' homeless population, and they're startled by the immensity of the problem.
In the tradition of Marvel icons like Spider-Man and the X-Men, Runaways uses the superhero genre to explore the trials and thrills of adolescence.
Runaways, which premieres on November 21, focuses on a group of teenagers who discovers their parents are all members of a supervillain team called the Pride.
Joan Jett "Bad Reputation" After her early, volatile experiences as a teen in the girl band The Runaways, Jett knew she wanted control over her music.
In similar fashion, "Marvel's Runaways" feels like a mash-up of CW-type dramas, as if "Gossip Girl" had a baby with the "X-Men" franchise.
A recent deal with breakaway Democrats in the Independent Democratic Conference — brokered with help from Cuomo — brought most of the runaways back into the mainline fold.
That's the big reveal in the premiere of "Marvel's Runaways" on Hulu, an adaptation of the comic that begins with three (of 10) episodes on Tuesday.
A lot remains to be seen about "Runaways," and it feels as if it may take a whole season just to set out the convoluted premise.
In 1787, Southern delegates to the federal Constitutional Convention obtained a fugitive slave clause that called for (albeit vaguely) the capture and return of successful runaways.
From Georgia and the Carolinas to Virginia and Tennessee, runaways resisting arrest could be killed with impunity — and the only witness might be the killer himself.
"Runaways" of the Underground Railroad became Maroons, and a part of this powerful network of people that challenged the racism and violence of the wider society.
It involves a cast of dozens — journalists and junkmen, artists and runaways, all capturing different aspects of a society whose democratic institutions are slowly falling away.
This felt like an opportunity to create a whole other set of questions, and really help put the audience in the same shoes as the Runaways.
And because many young prostitutes are runaways from the foster care system, they fear being sent to a group home if taken away from their pimps.
The performing arts center announced Thursday, two days after Ms. Swados's death, that it would stage a revival of "Runaways" this summer as part of its Encores!
Unlike eloping of old, the 2017 version is less Gretna Green runaways, Austen-esque romantic scandals, and Las Vegas shotgun weddings and more in the boutique category.
There's been a lot of research and stories written about how missing black girls are often immediately identified as runaways, which sort of deprioritized as their cases.
I can tell you the albums that formed the landscape of my youth, and I think probably Heart and the Runaways were as heavy as it got.
What I'm hoping for in the second season is really less of the parents, less of the church, less of the romance, and more of the Runaways.
Plus, Hulu has made series orders for The First (a show about the colonization of Mars from Beau Willimon, creator of House of Cards) and Marvel's Runaways.
The good news is you'll want to pay attention to that full picture no matter your level of Runaways expertise, because man, is that full picture fun.
But a recent deal with renegade Democrats in the Independent Democratic Conference — brokered with help from Cuomo — brought most of the runaways back into the mainline fold.
At the time, he was writing "Beautiful Children," a sweeping story about young runaways, strippers, hustlers and meth addicts in Las Vegas, where Mr. Bock grew up.
Actors are supposed to be these runaways that get in a covered wagon filled with hats and tambourines and go from town to town making people smile.
They're tearing up the air at New York City Center, where a pulsing reincarnation of Elizabeth Swados's "Runaways" is testifying to the atomic power of adolescent angst.
Other guests at the musical extravaganza, held at The Mint in Los Angeles, included Chris Brown and Runaways star Gregg Sulkin, who posed for photos with Jackson.
"A Life Apart" and "The Year of the Runaways" are part of a wave of recent books that cast a more critical eye on migration than usual.
Although nearly all of Holzhauer's episodes have been runaways going into Final Jeopardy, Levin put up a fight so strong that Holzhauer only beat him by $18.
Loeb said that when Marvel first started thinking seriously about which of its properties would work best on television, Runaways was near the top of the list.
But the folks behind Runaways admitted that a program that's all about questioning authority might have certain resonances in this era, especially for those who lean left.
In the 1920s, Goodwin helped oversee the police department's newly created Women's Bureau to handle cases involving prostitutes, runaways, truants and victims of domestic violence, Whalen said.
John Marvin was raised in Carrier Mills, a township in Southern Illinois that provided a sanctuary for freed slaves (and later runaways) who had fled the South.
Rather that revisiting the incident directly, the opera depicts a crisis in the lives of five North Philadelphia teenagers in 2017, runaways who form their own family.
It's incredibly rare to see a show address and internalize a critical dressing-down and make a hard pivot for the better, but that's what Runaways does.
But a recent deal with breakaway Democrats in the Independent Democratic Conference — brokered with help from Cuomo — brought most of the runaways back into the mainline fold.
They met Fowley at a payphone outside a supermarket before Boleyn was whisked away to a recording studio where the Runaways were laying down their first album.
"Runaways," a 1978 show about troubled teenagers, is somewhat better known because it had a Broadway run; the show was written by Elizabeth Swados, who died last month.
At New York City Comic Con yesterday, Hulu unveiled the first trailer for its upcoming Marvel Universe show, Runaways, as well as a release date: November 21st, 2017.
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As the detectives interact with the frantic, inebriated mother, and take a closer around the house, it becomes clear that the kids are likely missing, and not runaways.
The Runaways title was revived for a Secret Wars miniseries that had teen superheroes rebelling against a corrupt authority, but the majority of the original characters were absent.
In the first wave of Californian punk at the end of the 1970s, she produced the Germs, a notorious LA band who were in thrall to the Runaways.
These are similarities that could have been built in to let Cloak and Dagger cross over to other series (Runaways included), the way they do in the comics.
Runaways star Gregg Sulkin starred alongside the actress-turned-duchess in the 2015 film Anti-Social – and he's not surprised that Meghan has adjusted nicely to royal life.
Some separated children are also migrants from poor families forced to look for work, or runaways who were facing physical or sexual abuse at home, said aid workers.
For Elizabeth Swados, being nominated for four Tony Awards in one year while still in her 20s — for "Runaways," in 1978 — led to success in an unexpected direction.
Attempts to return the runaways to slavery in the South created firestorms of controversy everywhere in the North—in the streets, the courts, the press, and the Congress.
Studies show transgender youth, who are over-represented among the homeless and runaways, are particularly at risk of sex trafficking and less likely to seek help, fearing discrimination.
This is because traffickers target the most vulnerable children — these often have low self-esteem, a history of abuse, are runaways or are in the foster care system.
Release Date: January 24A modern take on the 19th-century novel "The Turning of the Screw" by Henry James, "The Turning" is directed by Floria Sigismondi ("The Runaways").
The title characters of "Runaways," who include dope addicts, con artists and streetwalkers, may have seemed exotic on one level to the middle-aged parents in the audience.
After all, unlike the Ronettes or the Runaways (who were trailblazers in the 1970s and broke down doors for acts to follow), the Go-Go's had fuller autonomy.
Few new series arriving this fall are as highly anticipated as Hulu's Runaways, an adaptation of the 2005 Marvel comic created by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphonsa.
A partnership between organizations including Casa Ruby and groups dedicated to human trafficking and those leaving the sex trade will aim to offer the intersectional needs of runaways.
In part, Delbanco argues, the runaways were a continuing symbolic insult to the slaveholders' honor, as their flight contradicted Southern claims that slavery was a benevolent, paternalist institution.
"Marvel's Cloak & Dagger," beginning with a two-hour premiere on Freeform on Thursday, is the comics company's first new live-action series since "Runaways" on Hulu in November.
"They were the classic runaways who are trying to break into the industry," the source said, adding that the GR Sistemi employees at the conference barely spoke English.
But Runaways kicks all that up a notch, because these teens have powers (and/or gadgets that give them powers), and those wicked adults are their supervillain parents.
Inevitably, this adaptation won't satisfy all fans of The Runaways, especially since the wait for someone, anyone, to adapt the story to the screen has been so long.
The police department claimed that the number is in line with typical statistics on juveniles who are reported missing, the majority of whom are runaways who are later found.
Since then, the song has been recorded dozens, perhaps hundreds of times, including versions by the Runaways, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Damned, X, Chevy Chase and Sam Kinison.
Runaways revolves around six high school students who used to be best friends, but following the death of the group's seventh BFF they all splinter into different social groups.
Communal sex and drug use were a way of life as Manson became a messiah to the runaways, outcasts and criminals drawn by his charisma, intimidation and twisted spiritualism.
Navigating relationships is hard enough for humans ad adults – for the heroes of Runaways it becomes another burden to shoulder in the new world they find themselves living in.
One theory on the origin of these runaways suggests the stars were accelerated when the objects were kicked out of a massive star cluster and flung off into space.
The state inhabited by the title characters of "Runaways," directed by Sam Pinkleton, is one of unbounded energy and a matching capacity to reach the outer limits of emotions.
Some of the girls were runaways or foster children without permanent homes; in some cases, Mr. Epstein would ask them to recruit other girls, his victims told the police.
"Runaways," a comic book series that began in 2003, takes that idea to its logical conclusion: The supervillains that the teenage heroes have to defeat are their own parents.
"Cloak & Dagger" continues a youth trend begun by "Runaways" and "The Gifted" on Fox — its heroes, actually called Cloak (Aubrey Joseph) and Dagger (Olivia Holt), are high school age.
Taking place present day (which means it will be around the same time as Spider-Man: Homecoming, but before Infinity Wars), the trailer highlights what The Runaways has to offer.
The Runaways themselves are six teens — Alex (Rhenzy Feliz), Nico (Lyrica Okano), Gert (Ariela Barer), Karolina (Virginia Gardner), Molly (Allegra Acosta), and Chase (Gregg Sulkin) — who each have different abilities.
A visual rendering of what these ads might look like shows a small Charmin banner on the right side of the pause screen overlaid on an episode of Marvel's Runaways.
If anything, I appreciate how Runaways is dealing with the struggle of having a parents who is a charismatic, respected abuser, especially when you've been groomed to want their approval.
In many states, children under 18 are considered "runaways" if they try to leave home, even to escape an abusive husband, and are often returned by authorities against their will.
Founded by a small nonprofit called Peas in Their Pod, the Rilya Alert has broader criteria than the AMBER Alert, allowing for the inclusion of missing children classified as runaways.
Krystal's crew have widely ranging personalities, but all of them seem like lost kids, runaways and troublemakers who had a hard time at home, if they had homes at all.
Off-Center weighs in starting Wednesday, July 6, with a revival of "Runaways," which Ms. Swados originally developed over the course of a year with performers who were barely teenagers.
But the film, from the sadly departed genius animator Satoshi Kon, has nothing but compassion for her and the rest of its cast of drunks, runaways, criminals, and assorted layabouts.
Weekends found the place teeming with teenage runaways, smart-ass college students, rough-trade hustlers and their collective admirers, serenaded by a jukebox with the Stones, Bowie and the Ramones.
"Runaways" does evince the Savage-Schwartz sparkle — the capacity for transmuting high-school schmaltz into screwball comedy — and perhaps it will do it just often enough to keep your interest.
Metropolitan Diary A dozen runaways on the M86, a clever hiding place for a lost water bottle and other reader tales from New York City in this week's Metropolitan Diary.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, securing the return of runaways, tipped him over the edge from outrage to activism, though his upbringing had primed him to make the move.
For that reason, perhaps, he rarely sheltered runaways, and a tour of his house does not feature the crawl spaces and secret passageways that some on the Underground Railroad do.
But for now, let's hold out hope that Hulu's Runaways will stay faithful to the spirit of the source material while taking advantage of getting to unfold this story onscreen.
Marvel's Runaways is one of those comics that inspires fierce devotion, especially among those who first encountered it during its stellar initial 2003 run by writer-creator Brian K. Vaughn.
Season 1 introduced our runaways (though they hadn't run away just yet): Gert (Ariela Barer), Molly (Allegra Acosta), Chase (Greg Sulkin), Alex (Rhenzy Feliz), Nico (Lyrica Okano), and Karolina (Virginia Gardner).
From the Spahn Ranch on the outskirts of Los Angeles County, and other sites around southern California, Manson developed a following among runaways and young women known as the Manson Family.
Marvel editor Nick Lowe had been looking for the right project for best-selling novelist and long-time superhero comics fan Rainbow Rowell, and there was no other choice but Runaways.
But the writers need to keep that focus on the right place, spending more time letting the audience fall in love with the titular Runaways and their relationships with each other.
I went right along on the emotional journey that my life has been: the elation of The Runaways, the depression when the band broke up, meeting [my longtime manager] Kenny [Laguna].
While 13 Reasons Why fever has come and gone, the controversy surrounding the show's portrayal of may have impacted the way Hulu's new teen show, Marvel's Runaways, handled a similar topic.
One night in late 1975, Marina Muhlfriedel went to the Whisky a Go Go on LA's Sunset Strip to check out the Runaways, a new girl band fronted by Joan Jett.
Looks like Hulu is happy with the performance of its two new superhero shows — the streaming service is renewing both Runaways and Future Man for second seasons of 13 episodes each.
Works in Progress On the Hulu television series "Runaways," James Yaegashi plays a powerful dark wizard capable of unleashing a black hole of bats and teleporting aliens back to their planetoids.
From the Southern point of view, citizens in any state, Northern or Southern, were obliged to return runaways just as they would be obliged to return stray livestock or stolen cash.
Ruben Fleischer ("Superstore"), Liz Friedlander ("Conviction"), Nisha Ganatra ("Transparent"), Peter Horton ("Electric Dreams"), Julie Anne Robinson ("Castle Rock"), Millicent Shelton ("Marvel's Runaways") and Michael Spiller ("Champions") are also among the mentors.
Fighting supernatural threats with the power to level a city is nothing new for superhero shows like Runaways or The Defenders, but it marked a radical shift in scale for Cloak & Dagger.
But before them, and definitely before the it's-hip-to-be-queer characters of Riverdale and Runaways, LGBTQ kids didn't have many folks on TV or in movies to model themselves after.
Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who previously worked together on Gossip Girl, The O.C., and Hulu's Runaways, will be executive producing the pilot with Tau screenwriter Noga Landau attached as a writer.
While much of the spotlight has been on Marvel's upcoming Disney+ shows next year, before those shows hit, Marvel's Runaways will be returning to Hulu for a third season on December 13th.
Its list of performers is extensive: Jimi Hendrix, X, the Runaways, Hank Williams Jr., Sam Kinison, Liz Phair and perhaps every pimple-faced 16-year-old who's ever picked up a guitar.
If this aspect of Nico's powers were included in the Runaways show, it might come off as a glamorization of self-harm — especially in the wake of the 13 Reasons Why debate.
In the comics, the teens almost immediately became the runaways promised in the title, packing up whatever magic and weaponry they could once they realized their parents were up to no good.
"With 'Runaways,' she steps right into the front line of popular American theatrical composers," Mel Gussow of The New York Times wrote in a review of the musical at the Public Theater.
Saved in America is a San Diego–based nonprofit made up of former Navy SEALS and police officers who, as licensed private investigators, assist parents and law enforcement in tracking down runaways.
According to Deutsche Welle, police found the two runaways at Wacken Open Air, a colossal four-day annual music festival dubbed "the Metal Mecca," held in the small German village of Wacken.
Seeing those runaways on the piers, she continued, inspired her to co-found the True Colors Fund , which supports fellowships for homeless kids and tools for shelters to assess their L.G.B.T. inclusivity.
But now she's starring in Hulu's Marvel superhero drama Runaways, portraying Gert Yorkes—a highly political, nerdy Latina teenager who finds out she has a telepathic link with a genetically engineered dinosaur.
From what we've seen so far, their take on Runaways plays to their strengths: namely, snarky banter, an attractive cast, and a more developed story on the parents' side of the plot.
This boundary-breaking guitarist and singer-songwriter will talk about her upcoming biopic, "Bad Reputation," which traces the arc of her career from the 1970s, when she joined the Runaways, to now.
What&aposs coming to Disney Plus and Hulu"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." is ending with its upcoming seventh season and Hulu&aposs "Runaways" is concluding with its third season, which debuts on Friday.
Designed by the Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid, the new airport boasts four runaways and is expected to handle up to 72 million passengers a year by 2025, eventually reaching 100 million.
The transit system is also a primary go-to for runaways and youth in crisis, and Safe Place, a national youth outreach and prevention program, works to train drivers how to assist them.
"At first, I was entirely focused on learning how to draw a comic book and tell a story in a hurry," says Adrian Alphona, who was 23 when he accepted the Runaways job.
Rather than give a full-blown spoiler, I'll just tell you the story involves third-wheeling it with rehab Romeo and Juliet runaways, an unusual traffic block, and a full-sized rotisserie turkey.
In 1978 she had a breakout hit with "Runaways," a musical revue about runaway teenagers that originated at the Public Theater's Cabaret and made the move to Broadway, personally earning four Tony nominations.
Adapted from the comics by producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage -- creators of the aforementioned "Gossip Girl," and currently responsible for CW's "Dynasty" revival -- "Runaways" certainly has the teen angst thing down cold.
Based on interviews with real child runaways that were transformed into songs, speeches and poems, the piece is now being revived by the Encores Off-Center series, under the direction of Sam Pinkleton.
Rendered in English, Spanish, sign language and gobbledygook, the dialogue and lyrics of "Runaways" are the universal vernacular of people trapped in that most painful of limbos, the period between childhood and adulthood.
First presented at the cabaret at the Public Theater in 1978 before transferring to Broadway for a seven-month run, "Runaways" is a group portrait of homeless youth etched in 200-proof adrenaline.
" Archer turns up the worst that can happen in a childhood: There are rape victims, suicides, runaways, bulimics, a boy with "white scars down his back, hundreds of them, like fading cuneiform cuts.
Of the new "Fresh Start" earning its lead position, the Runaways' "Cherry Bomb" a crucial quantum louder than the Blackhearts', a "Crimson and Clover" born to be obliterated by its Stooges B side?
So when the two came in for a general meeting at Marvel TV and said the Marvel title they were most interested in working on was Runaways, everyone immediately hit the ground running.
These include architectural studies of the piers, but also shots of their semi-residential population of homeless people, teenage runaways, sexual adventurers, criminals and artists, a company that Mr. Baltrop, in effect, joined.
Much of it is welcome: over all, the recent crop of underground stories feature more black agency, fewer white saviors, greater attentiveness not only to runaways but to what they were running from.
The area was the subject of "Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa," a documentary that captures the variety of its inhabitants: war-scarred veterans, teenage runaways, garden variety social misfits, among others.
Police "apathy often takes the form of stereotyping and victim-blaming, such as when police describe missing loved ones as 'drunks,' 'runaways out partying' or 'prostitutes unworthy of follow-up,'" the report said.
The death of Elizabeth Swados on Tuesday prompted much reminiscing in the theater community about the composer/author's breakthrough show, "Runaways," which was staged at the Public Theater and then on Broadway in 1978.
South Sudan's civil war, which erupted in late 2013, has uprooted a quarter of the population, shattered families and left thousands of orphans, abandoned children and runaways to fend for themselves in the city.
If season two recognizes the unique opportunity this show's premise offers, and loosens the reins on its ever-ballooning plot, Runaways could become the empathetic teen superhero series TV has improbably, and unfortunately, lacked.
The Runaways made their way back to Los Angeles for writer Terry Moore's run with Humberto Ramos, but Moore's difficulty with teenage voices and his aimless plotting resulted in a major dip in quality.
But the most important thing about Runaways is the teens themselves, and the space Hulu's adaptation gives the story to unfold also gives each teen time to process his or her confusion and fear.
But its two latest series, the Seth Rogen-produced sci-fi comedy "Future Man" and teen serial "Marvel's Runaways," are both middling, narrowly appealing genre fare, more notable for their auspices than the execution.
The act is notable because it was the first time that the federal government authorized abolition of slavery, which hastened its demise in Virginia and Maryland as runaways from these states fled to Washington.
Hulu is still light-years behind Netflix when it comes to producing original series, but with shows like Handmaid's and the upcoming Marvel's Runaways, it's at least making a good-faith effort to catch up.
There were, however, other shows like Hulu's Runaways and Netflix's Godless where a sexual assault against a woman — or the threat of an assault — was used as throwaway plot fodder to further a man's storyline.
"Really that's all The Runaways were doing: trying to express ourselves the way we knew how, putting it into our songs," Jett told Refinery29, putting the raison d'être of her groundbreaking girl band into words.
Developing this superhero world over the course of years let Marvel Studios and Marvel Television give the Runaways TV show a deeper connection to other properties, not through explicit story ties, but through genre influences.
Rainbow Rowell and Kris Anka had an enormous pair of Sharpie-scribbled Converse to step into with their reboot of Runaways, the fan-favorite 2000s comic about a crew of superpowered teens with supervillain parents.
Hulu has placed an order for an adaptation of Runaways, the Marvel Comics series featuring a rag-tag bunch of teenagers trying to be heroes in the face of the ultimate arch-nemeses – their parents.
Hulu is already the home of another Marvel series, "Runaways," and it makes sense that the relationship would deepen after the Fox acquisition, which made Marvel's corporate parent Disney into the majority owner of Hulu.
The actor, who has starred in Remember the Titans and Marvel's Runaways, was found "guilty of a serious misconduct in violation" of the SAG-AFTRA constitution, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.
In "Untitled (Runaways)" from 1993, for instance, a series of lithographs that borrow the layout and aesthetic of 19th-century advertisements for escaped enslaved people, Mr. Ligon cast himself in the role of the runaway.
At other Southwest Key facilities, police reports and call logs from the last five years detail dozens of runaways, inappropriate relationships with staff, sexual contact among kids, and allegations of molestation by employees, ProPublica found.
Another Saudi study, at a university in Mecca, acknowledged that some runaways might be fleeing physical abuse, but said that most had been influenced by the "misuse of social media, copying other cultures and weak beliefs".
Then there are the television series: Legion, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, Supergirl, Flash, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Cloak & Dagger, Runaways, Krypton, Titans, Young Justice, and on and on.
It's been a long time since the gang was together, but it's the right time for a Runaways reunion given that the property is about to experience a huge profile boost with a new TV show.
The survivalists, monks, hermits and runaways of Alec Soth's "Broken Manual" sit near Paz Errázuriz's photographs documenting the precarious lives of a community of transvestite sex-workers in Chile under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in the 1980s.
Why it's exciting: Stevenson has been one of the breakout comics heroes of the past few years, with her work on the Eisner-glomming Lumberjanes, Disney's TV series Wander Over Yonder, and Marvel's Runaways and Thor.
For instance when Newt is delivered to a swamp encampment of runaway slaves, the runaways are eating whatever they can, making fires in the hollows of trees and sleeping on the ground and in the open.
" Sahota takes it further in "The Year of the Runaways": "What decadence this belonging rubbish was, what time the rich must have if they could sit around and weave great worries out of such threadbare things.
It seemed inevitable that Marvel's sharp and witty Runaways comic — about the high-stakes misadventures of a group of teens who discover that their parents moonlight as supervillains — would become a TV show at some point.
At New York City's BookCon this June, Rowell sat down with author Emma Straub to discuss her plans for Runaways, the importance of representation in YA literature, and the double-edged sword that is the internet.
In my own flying life, each of the four trim runaways I have experienced has been at most a 10-second problem — eight seconds to be surprised, and two seconds to flip the electric trim off.
Appearing Wednesday on BuzzFeed News' AM to DM to promote her turn as a villain in the Marvel series Runaways on Hulu, Hurley also talked about her role as the fictional British queen in the E!
" She and other advocates accuse the mayor and the police of a "blame the victim" mentality, and complain that they are trying to mollify the public by dismissing the problem as simply an issue of "runaways.
I saw Hawkins and Bland as soon as I was off the train, but they gave me a wide berth, for it was known that even here, in the city, Ryland's Hounds prowled, searching for runaways.
In another issue of the Marvel comic Runaways, for example, an evil police detective convinces a team of impressionable super-powered teens to attack heroes Cloak and Dagger by telling them the two have kidnapped a child.
The U.S. government said in a report this year that those most vulnerable to trafficking domestically include children in the welfare and court systems, runaways, American Indians, migrant and undocumented workers, people with disabilities and LGBT+ people.
No recent novel does a more powerful job of capturing the day-to-day lives of such immigrants than Sunjeev Sahota's second book, "The Year of the Runaways," which was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker prize.
Superhero stories have played with this connection before, from "Spider-Man," with Peter Parker wrestling with his newfound responsibility and ability to shoot webs, to "Marvel's Runaways" on Hulu, in which superpowers are a freighted family legacy.
The protagonist, known mostly as Victor, is a fugitive slave who, after being apprehended, makes a Faustian bargain: in exchange for keeping his freedom, he agrees to work for the U.S. Marshals Service to catch other runaways.
A nightmare hellhound who hunts runaways and feeds on wasps, hot peppers and hummingbird heads, the dog represents "the Master's rudderless soul" and "the slave's suffering double," serving as the animal crux of a cruel human hierarchy.
Whether by accident or design (since at least the majority of the show would have been filmed before reviews and recaps came out), the first season finale of Runaways acts as an answer to its critics' biggest gripes.
But while some of the megastudio's forays into TV seem like watered-down versions of the tentpole films that fans flock to, Hulu's release, Runaways, is taking a decidedly more down-to-earth look at the Marvel Universe.
During a Television Critics Association panel, Schwartz and Savage — names you'll recognize from Gossip Girl and The O.C. — explained that Runaways isn't about creating a group of heroes just to have them inhabit the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe.
It even trades in the triumphant '80s power ballads that tend to score the Hawkins AV Club's misadventures for the gnashing punk chords of the Runaways' "Dead End Justice," and gives Eleven a raccoon-eyed, New Wave makeover.
The battery has a built-in inverter, the battery management system's software will also keep things in check, and then if those should fail, he says, there are two resistors that will pop to stop any thermal runaways.
Maida's new memoir Four Strings, Phony Proof, and 300 45s traces his musical journey from growing up in New York City's Little Italy to working with Bryan Ferry in Roxy Music to his studio work with the Runaways.
In 1985, a judge in Manhattan ordered the group to stop housing runaways and other unaccompanied children in its buildings in Manhattan and Brooklyn because it had not obtained a license from the state Department of Social Services.
For inspiration, Shires brought a trifold poster board covered with black-and-white photos of Joan Jett and the Runaways into RCA's Studio A, where they recorded the album live on vintage microphones instead of piece by piece.
For inspiration, Shires brought a trifold poster board covered with black-and-white photos of Joan Jett and the Runaways into RCA's Studio A, where they recorded the album live on vintage microphones instead of piece by piece.
The resulting history, published in 1898 and entitled "The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom," depicted a network of more than three thousand anti-slavery activists, most of them white, who helped ferry largely anonymous runaways to freedom.
Ms. Swados provided the music for Ms. Lane's acting debut in Andrei Serban's 1972 production of "Medea" at La MaMa — Ms. Lane was 6 at the time — and they later worked together on "Runaways," Ms. Swados's groundbreaking 1978 musical.
While Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is closely tied to the MCU, other Marvel spinoffs like Netflix's Jessica Jones, Hulu's Runaways, or Freeform's Cloak & Dagger keep their references to the larger world of Marvel heroes and villains coy, or simply nonexistent.
An early-season subplot where the Runaways' genius leader, Alex Wilder (Rhenzy Feliz), hangs out with his father's rival in Compton is especially agonizing, since it stunts the group dynamic that really should be the heart of the show.
Sure, your Farrah Fawcett flares might make everyone wonder whether you loved Dakota Fanning in The Runaways just a bit too much, but worn with leather mules and a blazer they suddenly go from un-ironically retro to relevant.
And Runaways' success at trying something new — both in the comics, and on the screen — suggests studios can draw a lot of new energy from current creations, instead of sticking to legacy characters that have been around for decades.
I'll be honest: I was nervous about how Schwartz and Savage would adapt Runaways, even if "rich kids trading banter" is kind of their jam (see: the aforementioned Gossip Girl, The OC, and The CW's currently airing Dynasty reboot).
A short walk further east sits Whisky a Go Go, a former go-go club saved from an early grave by embracing the emerging punk scene of the late '70's and bands like X, The Germs, and Runaways.
At the time, she was an M.F.A. candidate at Yale working on her now-iconic series "Girl Pictures" (1997-2002), staged portraits of adolescent girls cast as runaways wandering beneath highway overpasses and mucking around in roadside drainage ditches.
Coogle says there are few safe corridors for women to leave, because of political pressure the Saudi government applies to some foreign countries to return "runaways" without giving them the opportunity to claim asylum or put their case forward.
In an inspired twist, the opera revisits the tragedy indirectly, by depicting a crisis in the lives of five teenagers in 24, runaways who take refuge in an abandoned house that turns out to be the separatists' old home.
The show is based off of the 2003 Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona comic book series The Runaways, and this trailer introduces us to six teenagers who discover that their parent are members of The Pride, group of supervillains.
As the runaways rebuild their relationships, we see the fragile infrastructure of this group; Alex as a reluctant leader, Gert as Molly's protector, Chase and Karolina following a predetermined path to power couple-dom, Nico trying to ignore her feelings.
Somewhere in the first few episodes, between Gert and Chase's bedroom banter and Nico and Karolina casually bringing up their attraction in front of a squeamish Alex, I realized that the teen romance was all I cared about on Runaways.
The two new series join existing Marvel properties on Hulu, including Marvel's Runaways, and other more adult-oriented fare like Marvel's M.O.D.O.K, Marvel's Hit-Monkey, Marvel's Tigra & Dazzler Show, Marvel's Howard the Duck and the planned special event, Marvel's The Offenders.
Look, I know a pilot is designed to entice — which Runaways certainly does — but it also has to introduce so many characters, so many relationships, and so many big ideas that it feels like nothing gets its proper time to shine.
Also, Netflix is releasing a comic book with Mark Millar, and Harry Potter is getting its very own Pokémon Go. Plus, TechCrunch's Darrell Etherington and Anthony Ha enjoy an early look at Marvel's Runaways, coming to Hulu later this month.
Along the way they meet, and become fellow travellers with, a motley crew of runaways: Fineboy, a militant fleeing from the very same army; Isoken, a young girl near-raped by those militants; and Oma, a housewife escaping her abusive husband.
At the time, it was reported that those shows would include a soapier Starfleet Academy show from the creators of Gossip Girl and Marvel's Runaways; two limited series, including one based on The Wrath of Khan; and an animated series.
Fans who stayed out late to see the New York Comic Con panel for Marvel's Runaways got a treat on Friday night, when the Hulu premiered the series' first episode on the main stage in front of a packed audience.
In the original Marvel Runaways comic, launched by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Adrian Alphona in 2003, six kids learn that their parents are secretly supervillains who run Los Angeles through a powerful and malevolent organization called The Pride.
She's already an icon, but this documentary spanning the beginning of her career in the '70s all-girl band The Runaways to her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015 makes something else clear: she's a fighter.
Dakota has a sea of credits to her name dating back to her days as a child actress, including War of the Worlds, Uptown Girls, Charlotte's Web, The Secret Life of Bees, The Runaways, and three films in The Twilight Saga.
Vaughan made the jump to television (writing for Lost, executive producing the Stephen King adaptation Under The Dome) after building a strong reputation in comics, and his understanding of both comics and television make him a valuable resource for Hulu's Runaways.
"I am accepting this award for the 1.6 million runaways and homeless youth in the United States who are starving, lost, and scared for their lives right now," Helt said in the acceptance speech he gave on the singer's behalf.
Marvel's Runaways actor Kip Pardue has been accused of sexual misconduct by True Blood actress Sarah Scott in a new report by the Los Angeles Times, where she claims he masturbated in front of her after making her touch his groin.
Rhenzy Feliz "The second I got the audition, before I even went into the room, I knew what I was auditioning for," says Rhenzy Feliz, who plays – and is a dead-ringer for — the Runaways' resident genius and lynchpin, Alex Wilder.
But the attack had a devastating impact on Sera who left home a few years later and ended up sharing a house with other runaways who were forced to sell sex and give part of their earnings to the landlord.
Seen terrorizing the guests of the El Royale through a sadistic game of casino roulette and training runaways to be his amoral attack dogs, Billy Lee rips through the film as a terrifying tour de force that should repulse you.
But these represent anomalies against the tidal wave of queer whiteness that has overwhelmed teen TV. Watch as Broadly searches for America's last lesbian bars: But things may be slowly changing, as seen in shows like The Bold Type and Runaways.
She's played Cherry Currie (The Runaways), a vampire queen (The Twilight Saga), and a 1960s radical (American Pastoral), and you can soon catch her acting alongside Rihanna, Anne Hathaway, Cate Blanchett, Mindy Kaling, and Sarah Paulson in the upcoming Ocean's Eight.
As for TV, Hulu is bringing back new seasons of Killing Eve, The Great American Baking Show, Better Things, Marvel's Runaways, and Vanderpump Rules — as well as streaming the CMA Country Christmas special and the Miss America and Miss Universe pageants.
Death by drug-dealers was much more plausible than death by a far-out cult of brainwashed teenage runaways and the puppet-master who convinced them he was Jesus Christ and thought the Beatles' wrote the "White Album" for him.
Considering their ages, backgrounds, and mess of teen-related problems, it's surprising that the Runaways could even be superheroes—emphasized even more by the diversity represented by the core cast, a stark contrast to the rest of the MCU canon.
One of the running jokes in the comic series is that the Runaways can't get the Avengers to come help them because the kids are based in Los Angeles, while the bigger, more famous superheroes are all based in New York.
The prolonged cases often involve children in foster care or government custody, and a disproportionate number are in the system—one 2011 study found that more than 30 percent of surveyed runaways had been in foster care at some point.
I can't stress enough how strange and funny it is to watch Runaways completely change its mind about its direction mid-season, as its cast gets whisked away to another dimension in order to give the show a hard reset.
But when Mr. Schwartz and Ms. Savage began writing their first script for "Runaways" on spec, they decided to flesh out the characters of the parents (who barely register a blip in the comics) and make their motivations more understandable.
But Hulu's Runaways, based on Brian K. Vaughan's 2003 comic, enlisted the creators of The OC and Gossip Girl specifically to tell a story about teens in way over their heads once they discover that their parents might be truly, deeply evil.
On the other, there's the fact that the show is called Runaways, and with every passing episode and increasingly convoluted plot twist, it became more unclear when, exactly, these kids might actually make good on the show's premise and, y'know, run away.
After nine episodes of buildup and red herrings and intrigue, the Runaways — an unofficial moniker, since they themselves reject that label as too "bleak" when Alex suggests it — reveal they know about their parents' disturbing double lives, before making a break for it.
Originally introduced in 2003 as part of Marvel's Tsunami line of comics inspired by the storytelling of Japanese manga, Runaways followed a group of teenagers (and one pre-teen) who ran away from home after discovering that their parents are secretly supervillains.
Ms Jett is lost after the Runaways have burned out; Mr Laguna is casting around for some means of resurrecting himself a decade after his heyday as a teenage hitmaking prodigy, writing bubblegum songs for the manufactured groups of the late 1960s.
The group is littered with runaways and dropouts—young people who don't have anyone who will miss them—and Star feels like she's found a home amidst the outcasts, while catching a glimpse of the other America, where you don't want for anything.
Eugene knew that was a French word associated with women of dubious morals, but in his mind it included the teen runaways at that chicken-hawk bar Stigwood had taken him to, Saturday night; plus Stigwood himself, who was rich and debauched.
Though it has been a destination for runaways from the continent it dangles from for centuries — when there was easy money to be made in shipwreck salvaging, and even before that — development has brought steady growth to the archipelago in recent decades.
"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 86% (season 2)What critics said: "In pulling the kids away from their parents, Runaways' second season actually puts itself in an excellent position to further explore what it means to be a family rather than a team.
Arson, criminal damage, attacks on the police, attacks on bystanders with different views, throwing petrol bombs, trashing businesses, damaging railway stations: This has nothing to do with the democracy these runaways profess to be fighting for and is more akin to anarchy.
But Palm Beach was also the place where a well-connected billionaire financier from New York, Jeffrey E. Epstein, was accused a decade ago of molesting dozens of underage girls — some of them runaways or foster children who are vulnerable to sex trafficking.
Casual's third season was its best yet, assuming you can stand that frequently divisive show, and Marvel's Runaways was probably my favorite new superhero show of the fall (and would be my favorite of the year, but for FX's stylish, slightly empty Legion).
Later this year, the service will premiere Marvel's The Runaways, a comic-book adaptation shepherded by the creators of Gossip Girl and The O.C.It's also working on a futuristic drama with House of Cards creator Beau Willimon about the first manned mission to Mars.
But if Runaways is going to be a successful TV show, it was always going to have to slow down, take a step back, and figure out how to tell the story in a way that makes sense outside the pages of a comic book.
Deep into the marathon that was this year's New York Comic Con, Marvel Television head Jeph Loeb hit the main stage at the Javits Center to lead a panel for Runaways, Marvel's newest small-screen foray and the company's first team-up with Hulu.
It gave me the education I would need to open up my own agency and represent Parliament-Funkadelic, Bootsy's Rubber Band, The Runaways, and several other acts, and then become a manager for George Clinton, Vanilla Fudge, Living Colour, and Sheila E. after that.
Young Adult author Rainbow Rowell may not have written Fangirl and Carry On to audition for the part of comic book writer, but the role seems like a perfect fit now that we know she'll be working with Marvel on an upcoming Runaways comic.
Per Variety, these include a Starfleet Academy show from Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz (who previously created Dynasty, Gossip Girl, and Marvel's Runaways), a limited series based on the Wrath of Khan story (sigh), as well as another limited series and an animated series.
Costello, who was not the district attorney at the time, said she has not had time to review the entire 254-page discovery file and didn&apost know if the other children were the couple&aposs biological children or were runaways or kidnap victims.
Inspired by the Oscar-nominated 218 documentary Streetwise, which chronicles the lives of teenage runaways living on the streets of Seattle, it features tracks from Brian Eno, Chrome Sparks, Sébastien Tellier, Tangerine Dream, and unreleased Electric Youth material, weaved into a three-act narrative.
It'll feature interviews with icons Steve Priest of The Sweet and Cherie Currie of The Runaways as well as artists moved by glam's enduring influence like Michael Stipe of R.E.M., Paul Banks of Interpol, Luke Steel of Empire of the Sun, and Lil Uzi Vert.
When Marvel announced that author Rainbow Rowell would be bringing back Runaways — the beloved early-aughts comics series about a diverse group of teens who learn their parents are supervillains, which is soon to become a live-action Hulu original series — the buzz was deafening.
Mr. Baltrop's photography of the derelict shipping piers along the Hudson River not only serve as architectural studies but also reveal the "semi-residential population of homeless people, teenage runaways, sexual adventurers, criminals and artists" who found refuge there, Mr. Cotter wrote in his review.
Many of the exhibit's rooms are brightly colored; there are plaques relaying tales of how runaways gained their freedom, and sections are dedicated to abolitionists such as Martin R. Delany, who established The Mystery, the first African-American weekly newspaper west of the Allegheny Mountains.
While this was less than altruistic, what matters was that it meant there could be safe houses, places where runaways could get a meal; there were barbershops they could sneak into, wash up and be given fresh clothing as they continued their journey to Canada.
This year, its artistic director, Jeanine Tesori (the composer of "Fun Home"), has selected "Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" (July 27-30), an early collaboration between Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, and "Runaways" (July 6-9), Elizabeth Swados's pioneering musical from 1978.
Participants will see a Roman marble sarcophagus like the one inside which Claudia conceals her violin case; a carved 18th-century bed reminiscent of where the runaways sleep; and "Young Archer," a statue attributed to Michelangelo, similar to the one central to the novel's mystery.
The artist Glenn Ligon is now known primarily for his works exploring racial identity: In his 1993 "Runaways" series, he slips descriptions of himself as a missing person, solicited from friends, into re-creations of 19th-century advertisements seeking the return of escaped slaves.
Participants will see a Roman marble sarcophagus like the one inside which Claudia conceals her violin case; a carved 210th-century bed reminiscent of where the runaways sleep; and "Young Archer," a statue attributed to Michelangelo, similar to the one central to the novel's mystery.
That's one message of "Bad Reputation," a documentary chronicling her 40-plus years in the music business, first as a founder of the Runaways, the seismic teen girl rockers of the '70s, then as the frontwoman and guitarist for the Blackhearts, her enduring band.
That means it's not the most new-reader-friendly title — all the more reason to read the original Runaways if you haven't — but Rowell does a good job catching up newcomers as she sets the stage for a new storyline that reassembles this beloved team.
Originally designed as a hiring hall for the National Maritime Union, the 24-story, porthole-adorned tower has since served as a shelter for runaways and as housing for the New York Service Center for Chinese Study Fellows, before opening as a fashionable hotel in 2003.
The Hulu series, created by Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz, complicated this plot with a major narrative shift: instead of taking off when they learn the shocking truth about their families, the Runaways... don't run away, at least until the final moments of the recent series finale.
Diva elders taught fresh-faced runaways the art of turning a trick: how to spot the white men cruising for a taste; how to kneel on cement without cutting their knees; and, most important, how, in extremis, to "just bite it"—after getting the money up front.
The stunning visuals from director Floria Sigismondi (The Runaways, The Handmaid's Tale) give a claustrophobic aesthetic to the video, which heightens the viewer's sense of being involved in this story and enhances the idea that Glass is fighting her way out of a tangled, thorny mess.
Both the early English settlers and the American Revolutionaries lived in profoundly class-ridden societies, with downtrodden (and sometimes cruelly disciplined) servants and restive debtors and runaways, yet official American history identifies with the rulers of these hierarchical societies as if they were middle-class democrats.
DIANE LANE, who appeared in Ms. Swados's production of "Medea" at the age of 6 as well as in "Runaways," recently established a grant for female educators in Ms. Swados's name: Her knowledge and precision in pronunciation of the ancient Greek texts were invaluable to everyone.
The Nickel Academy was a reform school for boys: juvenile offenders, wards of the state, orphans, runaways who'd lit out to get away from mothers who entertained men for money, or to escape rummy fathers who came into their rooms in the middle of the night.
"The going idea is that we need to keep young people safe and that that involves preventing runaways and homelessness and preventing school drop outs," Tasseli McKay, social science researcher at the Center for Justice, Safety & Resilience, RTI International and lead author on the research told Refinery29.
In 1841, when Charles Dickens came to the United States on a lecture tour, he was amazed by newspaper notices, "coolly read in families" as "a part of the current news and small-talk," offering rewards for returning runaways: Ran away, a negro woman and two children.
A child is considered missing if they are under 18 and their parents or guardians do not know where they are; however, children of color are disproportionally more likely to be labeled as runaways, Natalie Wilson, co-founder of the Black and Missing Foundation told CNN.
The controlling stake in Hulu that Disney is acquiring from Fox will give them more equity on the current Hulu show Runaways; Fox's broadcast network also has the X-Men show The Gifted, FX has Legion, and FXX has the upcoming Deadpool animated series from Donald and Stephen Glover.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When Brian K. Vaughan was approached by Marvel Comics to write a comic book to bring in new readers, he hit on the idea of "Runaways," the story of a diverse group of teenage friends whose bond grows stronger when they make a gruesome discovery.
Doctor Strange introduced the magical side of the MCU, and while Runaways is forced to present sorcery as advanced science because of Marvel Television's "no magic" rule, the existence of genuine magic in the MCU informs scenes like Nico (Lyrica Okano) trying to commune with her dead sister's spirit.
The two lost souls, who first crossed paths in a Big K parking lot and now work together selling magazines on the road with a crew of tattooed and tipsy runaways, are driving to god knows where when Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You" starts playing on the car's radio.
Now Hulu is getting into the Marvel game with Runaways, one of several new shows Marvel is producing for the 2017-18 TV season (along with Freeform's Cloak and Dagger and the currently homeless New Warriors) which has sparked a new round of speculation — is it really all connected?
The JJDPA promotes efforts to reduce delinquency in America, to reduce disproportionate incarceration of youth of color, to prevent delinquent youth from being jailed alongside adults, and to keep status offenders – runaways and truants – from being locked up even though they have not been accused of a crime.
But if you ask former employees what it was like working at Williamson's highly-touted group home, built on the rolling hills outside of Sacramento, they describe an exploitative organization that cared more about promoting its cause than caring for the teen runaways it claimed to be saving.
After all, besides launching an acid-fueled cult of teenage runaways who savagely killed nine people and fueled national panic over an allegedly gruesome counterculture, he also helped inspire Marilyn Manson and, before the killings that made him notorious, even laid the groundwork for a Beach Boys track.
In 2017 alone, we saw flannel padding Jo's and Chase's lesbian storylines on Netflix's Easy, in Karolina's on Runaways, and in Danver's on Supergirl, with a side-mulleted Aidy Bryant in SNL's Wonder Woman/Themyscira lesbian-island sketch rounding out the group as the year's most cartoonish offense.
If Runaways can thread that needle between the heavily personal story of teenagers questioning everything their parents stand for and the more ambiguously sociopolitical story of what it means for any of us to question the ideals of the world we grew up in, it could be something special.
What's more, the episode's final scene involves Blanca (Mj Rodriguez) and Pray Tell (Billy Porter) — the surrogate mother and father of the show's growing number of young queer kids who've left their biological families and just need to find love and acceptance somewhere — meeting two 14-year-old runaways.
Driven by both a passion for music and a penchant for outsiders, Sigismondi works in formats as varied as her collaborators; in 2010, she directed the eponymous Runaways biopic centered on 70s trailblazers Cherie Currie and Joan Jett, and recently helmed episodes of Hulu's Emmy-winning original The Handmaid's Tale.
We do get one song from women—"Cherry Bomb" by female punk group The Runaways—in 1976: Joan Jett tells her "Daddy and mom," that she's their "cherry bomb," a reference that reframes the fruit's sexual connotations as something explosive, connecting them to the "cherry bomb" fireworks popular at the time.
As D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced a task force dedicated to missing children, a key element of the story—shared by everyone from TMZ to Facebook busybodies—was a point all too often used to dismiss the cases of missing youths of color: most of the girls were probably runaways.
Activists and researchers say the crisis burned unheeded for generations until a few years ago, when families' stories of how their loved ones were sex trafficked, murdered with impunity or dismissed as chronic runaways gained traction through grass-roots organizing and social media, forcing politicians and law enforcement to take notice.
A slew of superhero television shows, including The Defenders, The Tick, Inhumans, Runaways, and The Punisher, have recently debuted or are set to debut later this year, joining the ranks of existing series like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Legion, Arrow, Supergirl, The Flash, and Marvel's ever-growing stable of Netflix series.
Having discovered Rimbaud's work after returning to high school following his earliest years on the street, Wojnarowicz was cognizant of a number of biographical similarities between himself and the writer — both were teenage runaways, gay men with poetic inclinations and few sexual inhibitions, living outside of the law and social norms.
It would work equally well as a tagline for the whole series, which delves into the lives of teen girls serving time in Indiana's Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility for a range of mostly petty offenses like repeated runaways and drug and alcohol consumption, but in a few cases assault and vehicular manslaughter.
She would still be an important paragraph in rock music history, but chances are the endless vicissitudes she has faced—the terrible mistreatment of the Runaways by almost everyone they encountered, the difficulties with record labels in her solo career, the flitting in and out of fashion—would have worn her down.
Brett Morgen is a surprising choice of director for the Runaways pilot, given that his film and TV experience has been exclusively documentaries (The Kids Stay In The Picture, Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck, this year's Jane), but his involvement shows how dedicated the series is to the comics' grounded point of view.
But with the right vehicle Ligon can offer a satisfying trip: this is the case in "Runaways" (1993), a series of ten lithographs based off of 19th-century posters to locate runaway slaves; except here, Ligon had asked his friends to provide their descriptions of him, as if reporting a missing person.
Hulu has debuted the first full trailer for Runaways, their upcoming Marvel superhero drama, and eagle-eyed fans should find plenty of nods to the source material hidden in this two minute preview, including some of the team's signature weaponry and a few nods to the romantic pairings that might end up developing.
The protection and safety of black and brown children is not the responsibility of law enforcement or government alone — though absolutely stronger policies and communication are needed to make sure these children are not ignored and written off as "troubled runaways" hardly worthy of an Amber Alert when panicked families report them missing.
It's a metaphor, of course, for the book itself — an opus of more than 500 pages set in the late 1920s in the titular city, teeming with journalists and junkmen, artists and runaways, fiery rabble-rousers and burnt-out cases from the First World War, perceiving the city with their own nervous systems.
That case seeks to nullify a controversial nonprosecution agreement made in secret in 2007 that allowed Mr. Epstein to avoid federal criminal charges, despite police findings that Mr. Epstein had lured girls — some of them runaways or foster children — to his Palm Beach mansion to give him massages that frequently turned sexual.
Jeanine Tesori, the Tony-winning composer ("Fun Home") who serves as artistic director of the Off-Center program, said she has wanted to stage "Runaways" for five years, since she first began her work with City Center, and that she and Ms. Swados had been working for the last six months on the revival.
As streaming services have been working to create their own original content to entice viewers, Hulu has to put together a compelling slate of programs, such as the time travel miniseries 11/22/61, this month's The Handmaid's Tale, an adaptation of Marvel's Runaways, and its forthcoming Stephen King and J.J. Abrams collaboration, Castle Rock.
" Several individuals were interviewed by investigators, and police allege "it was discovered there was a second victim and numerous calls for service" at Utz' home, including calls related to "juvenile disturbances, found runaways, juveniles in possession of and smoking marijuana, high school age parties, alcohol being given to minors by [Utz], and reckless driving.
I knew the entries PLIE, INKA, PLASTIC BAGS and LITA FORD (disclosure: I created the "X Games" crossword for BUST Magazine — now run by the Times constructor Tracy Bennett — and Ms. Ford, formerly of The Runaways, is a folk hero around those parts), and all of the Down entries went in without much thought.
Runaways even has a clever twist on that formula baked into its premise, giving the series a darker sheen: Not only are these teens special, but their parents — who, so far as anyone else knows, are just a group of particularly talented and wealthy innovators — are in fact harnessing some serious evil to put toward their own nefarious ends.
Of course, the image of a woman playing a guitar as a symbol of subversion is nothing new: Would Cherie Currie of the Runaways announcing that she's your "ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-cherrrrry bomb" be half as exciting if she weren't accompanied by a Joan Jett guitar solo that pulses with sex?
A DRDC report published last month shows the Saskatchewan Police Predictive Analytics Lab (SPPAL)—a partnership between police, the provincial Ministry of Justice, and the University of Saskatchewan—is analyzing historical missing persons data with a focus on children in provincial care, habitual runaways, and missing Indigenous persons, and building tools to predict who might go missing.
Before they ever hit the streets, a startlingly high number of runaways experience abuse; one study found that between 21 and 70 percent of runaway and homeless youths had experienced sexual abuse, compared to 46 percent and 38 percent for physical and emotional abuse, respectively (and low single-digit rates for sexual abuse among the general youth population).
Its first two seasons were oddly paced and imbalanced, sapping all momentum from the show by decisions that didn't end up working out so well — first in choosing to slow down the story so that the eponymous Runaways don't actually, well, run away until the first season finale, and then in choosing to focus on their parents just as much.
And for however exciting and perfect Gert's dinosaur is (which, again, is very perfect), these are the moments when Runaways reveals what it can do like no other superhero show on TV. After unsuccessfully chasing Karolina, Chase has realized that Gert's feelings for him might not be so unreciprocated after all; in the penultimate episode, they threw caution to the wind and had sex.
Runaways is a relatively recent addition to the Marvel Universe — debuting in 2003 from writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Adrian Alphona — which means that unlike many of the older-school Marvel properties created by the legendary Stan Lee and his equally iconic collaborators, the property didn't come with decades of continuity baggage or need any significant updates to get in step with modern sensibilities.
The series, from teen drama vets Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (The O.C., Gossip Girl, Marvel's Runaways, Hulu's upcoming Looking For Alaska), has plenty of signature tenets of the duo's oeuvre and CW mainstays, but in its first two episodes fails to hook viewers with the kind of characters, relationships, and then-edgy plot lines that made some of their early-2000s work so magnetic.

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