Paperback, 144 pages
English language
Published Oct. 30, 2016 by Image Comics.
In the early hours after Halloween on 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and supernatural mysteries collide in this series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood -- Page 4 of cover.
I definitely got a Stranger Things vibe. Intrigued, and want to know how this develops.
doesn't waste any time in establishing characters, but avoids playing too far into archetypes. A lot of the plot is still being layed out, but there is obvious heart in the characters and their stories.
So I picked it up because pink, 80s, Saga (Brian Vaughan) and ... I liked the art.
The beginning is a bit confusing, I am having a hard time keeping the four girls apart and I am still getting a grasp on what is really going on. But there's time travel :)
Ziemlich spannend bisher, hoffe es driftet nicht zu sehr in Beliebigkeit ab in den nächsten Bänden.
Könnte gut auf die ganzen Ismen verzichten, die primär dafür genutzt zuw erden scheinen um Menschen Zeitepochen zuzuteilen, aber ziemlich unangenehm und mE unnötig sind.
I'm not entirely sure what is going on but would probably read another volume.
1980s, the midwest, feminism, kids saving the world and Brian K Vaughn. Somewhere during this list, I started screaming "take my money already" until it shook the windows.
Amazing book. Totally hooked and just ordered 2+3 instantly 😍
I'm not good at enjoying any serial fiction, it seems. Book One, Season One, Volume One - my least favorite words in entertainment. Still, it's interesting and well-drawn; enough that I'll read the second volume.
I liked the angry girl politics part better than the Pteranodon time-travel adventure part.
Also, I feel like the people who would have been like "aw yis, girl gang!" are going to maybe give it a miss for some of the homophobic rhetoric, which, although very possibly period appropriate, kind of ruins the fun escapism of girl gangs.
(The homophobia is from one char., and is pushed back against, but if you want to not encounter homophobic rhetoric in your reading, here it is.)
Full disclosure: I received a free review copy of this book from Net Galley. This review was originally published at Full of Words.
Paper Girls feels like a forgotten 1980s adventure that piles on the subversive twists. They don’t make movies like that anymore, let alone ones this weird.
I think the technical term here is “box office poison,” and yet I’d love to see Paper Girls up on the big screen. It begs for the kind of lovingly nostalgic adaptation that could only work with modern special effects and sensibilities.
Erin is a paper girl in the small town of Stony Stream, Ohio. Her story begins on the morning of November 1st, which is known in her profession as “Hell Night” thanks to all the teenaged trick-or-treaters still humming on stolen sugar highs.
When Erin runs into three other girls on the same route, they team up to …
Full disclosure: I received a free review copy of this book from Net Galley. This review was originally published at Full of Words.
Paper Girls feels like a forgotten 1980s adventure that piles on the subversive twists. They don’t make movies like that anymore, let alone ones this weird.
I think the technical term here is “box office poison,” and yet I’d love to see Paper Girls up on the big screen. It begs for the kind of lovingly nostalgic adaptation that could only work with modern special effects and sensibilities.
Erin is a paper girl in the small town of Stony Stream, Ohio. Her story begins on the morning of November 1st, which is known in her profession as “Hell Night” thanks to all the teenaged trick-or-treaters still humming on stolen sugar highs.
When Erin runs into three other girls on the same route, they team up to stay safe during the night, but run into something far more sinister than marauding teenagers. Things only get weirder from there.
If you enjoy Vaughan’s work on Saga, you’ll recognize the same bizarre sensibilities here. What starts off like a throwback to Spielberg at the height of the eighties quickly collides with Vaughan’s surrealist sci-fi tendencies, and shit gets weird.
I’m still not entirely sure what is going on in the story at the end of the first volume, but it definitely grabbed me and made me want to keep reading. As soon as I finished issue five, I bought the next issue at full price and am seriously considering subscribing to the series on Comixology.
My only real criticism of the book is that the girls don’t get much character development. Erin is a good girl. Mac is a cynical rebel. KJ and Tiffany are… present? Somehow the book still works despite hanging on archetypical characters with little to no depth.
That said, that lack of depth could be a major turnoff if you aren’t a fan of Vaughan’s brand of weirdness. My hope is that future issues flesh out the characters a bit more, but either way I’m hooked.
Lots of fun. Recommended if you like old Speilberg or other kids in the 80s movies.
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