EXCELLENT and I can't believe I just bought volume one! I had no idea what to expect, and I actually didn't know this was a sci-fi type of thing. I had only seen people praising it on the Internet and Amazon kept recommending it to me, so when a sale came, I just bought it. And boy, was I surprised as I kept reading. I don't think I'd be as thrilled as I was if I knew what the story was about. The surprises kept me close to the girls reactions as well, which was super fun.

It's new, it's gorgeous, the art is fantastic and oh my god the coloring! The story is super engaging, action-packed and with lovable characters.

The story is about a group of twelve-year-old girls in 1988 who deliver newspaper in a small town, and while doing their rounds on Halloween, strange things start to happen -- a group of deformed people , speaking a different language, apparently attacks them and steal their precious walkie-talkies, and people in town start disappearing. That is followed by a bunch of other strange phenomena and the four girls need to think quickly to survive all the chaos that ensues.

The girls are very much creatures of their time and for that I'm glad. It's so unsettling and unrealistic when writers transport present-time values to the past and slaps them on characters (cough The Alienist cough). They're a lovable group and girls of their own, however I feel like characters like KJ and Tiffany are still obscure as people themselves. I still don't feel like I know what they're like, unlike Erin and Mac. I hope to see them develop on the next volumes.

Their reactions to what was happening around them were almost always understandable and believable, and I think the only exception was the scene where Mac accidentally shot Erin. Twelve-year-olds would be much more freaked out by that than what actually happened on the comic, it was too matter-of-factly, like they were used to guns or whatever. I didn't really buy or liked that part,, but the story doesn't take a breather and you just have to keep going along with them.

Aside from those points, the story really is engaging and seeing an all-girls group of adventurers is sadly refreshing. All-boys groups on the eighties (and even now, just look at Stranger Things and how long it took them to include a girl that wasn't "magical-girl, plot-devicey" Eleven) were common, and when we had girls, it was only The Love Interest.

TL;DR: READ IT!

I'm about to head back to Amazon and buy the omnibus of this comic.