Brian K. Vaughan has a new interview up at the AV Club, and he talks about Runaways for a bit:

AVC: How does it feel, now that you’ve moved on from superhero books, seeing characters like The Hood and the Runaways continuing to be a part of the Marvel universe?

BKV: Oh, it’s great. I wish, particularly, the Runaways were more a part of it. But yeah, I knew when I created those characters what I was getting into. I’ve been fortunate enough to be a young writer who made a pretty good living off of other people’s creations. It felt only fair to sort of add new things back to the universe when I was finished with it.

AVC: Do you think Runaways would have changed if you had written it after you had children?

BKV: [Laughs.] Yes… probably? I mean, almost assuredly for the worst. But I’m happy I wrote it when I did. Because it’s very strange to have written this book that’s basically the message, “Your parents are evil.” And now I am one, so I’m much more sympathetic to the people I used to be out to get.

AVC: Are you anticipating when your kids are old enough to read your books? Are you figuring out how to deal with that right now?

BKV: [Laughs.] God help them if they want to read that stuff, but yeah, I don’t know how I’m going to handle that. But I suppose it’s right. I guess they were coded messages to my future children, telling them that daddy is evil. It’s probably true, so yeah, they better get crackin’ and read this stuff as soon as possible so they know what they’ve gotten themselves into.

Okay so the Daken guest appearance didn't really go so great, but it's a new month and our Runaways are going to show up in Avengers Academy next in a two part story. Hopefully this next story is better.

Here's a link to the preview

( My opinion on the preview )

Bleeding Cool's got hold of advance solicitations for April's issues and it looks like our Runaways have a guest slot:

( Solicit spoilers under the cut. )

TITLE: oh, how we swallowed the night
PAIRING: Karolina Dean/Julie Power (Marvel → Runaways/Avengers Academy)
RATED: PG-13
WORD COUNT: 742 words
SUMMARY: Every single time she closes her eyes, she sees nightmares unfold behind her eyelids, and the monsters are more real each time. Most of the time, she just gives up on the attempts to fall asleep, gets up, walks a little, does whatever there is to do when they’re staying at the time, and at some point she bores herself to sleep.

LINKS: LIVEJOURNAL | AO3

NOTE: this is a gift to immortality, and hon, i really really really hope you like it ♥ personally, i had a lot of fun writing it too~

Clothing company MightyFine is now selling officially licensed Runaways t-shirts. The first three designs feature Nico, Karolina, and the group in their 1907 garb.

Hopefully more designs are on the way. They need more Gert!

TITLE: The Snow Outside
PAIRING: Nico Minoru/Karolina Dean (Marvel: Runaways)
RATED: PG
WORD COUNT: ~ 500 words.
SUMMARY: Nico sees Karolina sitting outside and can't help but wonder what's so good about the snow.

NOTE1: this is for immortality. she asked for the girls and something involving snow. hope you like it! ♥

The Runaways will be guest starring in next week's issue of Daken: Dark Wolverine #17. The preview has come out but they aren't in it.

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Looks like the Runaways movie is on hold for at least at year but Marvel is happy with the script. Given how this summer's Marvel movies were pretty good I'll take that as good news.

Some possibly relevant news from San Diego

( Nothing confirmed yet )

Update: From Friday's SDCC Year of the X-men Panel:

Singh clarifies comments from Thursday, saying they're not "breaking up" the Runaways.