Paper Girls is a graphic novel about four newspaper delivery girls that get sucked into a Time Machine and have to find a way back home. It’s stranger things esque in the fact that you can never quite predict where the story will go next. I found a copy of the complete story at Half Priced Books, and because it’s written by Brian K Vaughan who wrote Saga, I had to jump on it.
For being a huge ass book, the spine held up well and it looks pristine after a read-through. The art is incredibly well done and it’s a joy when something zany or fantastical was drawn. The colors are vibrant and the one page panels always made full use of the page.
Not only are they messing with the time-space continuum, but they’re in the middle of a time-traveler war taking place. In spite of that premise, the story and pacing is my main gripe. I unfortunately had trouble getting invested and I felt like a lot of the same plot points were recurring. Ok cool you found another version of you from the future and something bad happens to them. I’m not the target age or audience, so it was hard to connect with any of the characters. If they all died in the end I wouldn’t have been too chocked up.
Spoilers
I enjoyed the concept of the ending. The “young” and “old-timers” form a truce to end time travel. The girls go back in time and have their memories erased. The future versions of themselves say they’re probably gonna all go their separate ways, but we are left with the open-ended picture of them riding off together after a shift. Sure I wouldn’t get chocked up if they had died, but I would if they didn’t stay friends.
Rating: 312/1000
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