Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona’s graphic novel Runaways: Pride and Joy is a short story that illustrates the importance of not only growing up and becoming independent, but also creating one’s own life path rather than following the one that one’s parents have forced upon him or her. By following a group of youths – Alex, Chase, Gert, Karolina, Molly, and Nico – that unite to fight against their supervillain parents, Vaughan and Alphona demonstrate that, while a child is genetically predisposed to have characteristics, or “superpowers”, either identical to or similar to those of his or her parents, he or she need not use them in the same way as his or her parents. In the present-day city of Los Angeles, Alex, Chase, Gert, Karolina, Molly,
