Don't you just hate it when you miss out on a cool new series? You hear all the buzz, but you already missed the first few issues, so you just don't feel like you can catch up. It's even worse when you hear all about how cool a title is, but you have YEARS worth of missed issues scaring you away from the book. Lucky for you, those clever folks at Marvel have everything under control.

In this case the cool series you may have missed out on is Runaways, by Brian K. Vaughan and an assortment of excellent artists. This title has hidden on the fringes of the Marvel Universe. Despite excellent reviews, lots of people still haven't read it. Now you may have heard that hot-shot writer Joss Whedon (You know, the Buffy and Astonishing X-Men guy.) is going to be taking over the book. This would be a great time to try this book, but what about the first 42 issues? To you I say, "Runaways Saga #1!"

This special Runaways issue cleverly compacts the events of the entire series into one handy-dandy issue. Still on the run, the team picks up the journal of their youngest member, Molly. Reading the journal, they get to see the crazy events of their lives from Molly's sometimes naive viewpoint, starting with how they had to run from, and eventually defeat, their own villainous parents. If you've never picked up an issue of Runaways before, this book is a great introduction. If you are already a fan, you may still enjoy seeing the events of the series analyzed by Molly. As an added bonus, there are a few new story pages by Humberto Ramos to link everything together.

Now's your chance to hang out with the cool kids and make up for your shameful ignorance! Runaways Saga #1 has everything you ever wanted to know about the Runaways, but were afraid to ask. It's all in one convenient book at one thrifty price, so what do you have to lose? Nothing! Because this book is Four Color Fantasies' guaranteed Book of the Week!