The final issues of Runaways has the team becoming superheroes, and beforehand Marvel was hyping this up as the next big team in Marvel (comparing them to Avengers, Defenders and Thunderbolts). If this was just a self-contained arc in their series, I doubt much attention would've been brought to it. Runaways has always been a rather niche title of its own, separate from the Marvel Universe. Then, of course, they described this as the next big step for the Runaways, saying they've subverted superhero tropes for so long, that they're now double-subverting it.
The word is that Runaways looks to be cancelled on Issue 30. In this day and age, where many comics struggle to make it past 12 issues if even that, 30 is a pretty good run. It looks like the Runaways' journey is far from over, and I doubt they'd leaving us hanging after they just became legitimate superheroes. I wonder what their codenames will be, and I hope they don't just lazily recycle the ones they BKV came up with when they were halfheartedly trying to be superheroes. Victor and Gib need names anyways.
So, think we can reasonably expect the whole announcement at NYCC? I can imagine them saying "the journey of the Runaways comes to a close..." before showing a picture of the assembled team "... but the chapter of the J-Team begins!" and announce the new title in the place of the Runaways with Rainbow Rowell continuing to write.
It might seem weird, but remember, Marvel did a comic starring the Masters of Evil masquerading themselves as the heroic Thunderbolts, which must've been really odd at the time. It was also a classic.
I wanna know what you think of this, and the idea in general of the Runaways becoming legitimate superheroes. Discuss.