Runaways #2

Two young women stare out from Humberto Ramos's striking cover with an unnerving calm — a blonde in a sleek black glove pressed to her face and a dark-haired companion at her side, a jagged tear of flame-orange cutting through the background behind them. Tied to Marvel's 2008 Secret Invasion event with its "Embrace Change" corner badge, this issue of Runaways — "Dead Wrong Part Two" — carries the quiet tension of people who know trouble is already here. Terry Moore and Ramos make for a compelling team, and this chapter promises the kind of guarded, determined energy that makes this series so easy to love.