Paper Girls, Vol. 1
Ratings232
Average rating4
I'm a huge fan of Saga, and I wanted to try a new series on Free Comic Book Day when everything was on sale. I heard the hype about Vaughan's new work, and I don't think it was overestimated at all. Paper Girls is eerie, unsettling, and fascinating. It takes place in what appears to be a near future, but a lot is left unclear and adds to the haunting feeling of the story and art. The heroes, for paper delivery girls who have to be seriously hardcore to do their job, are all great examples of complex kids, being forced into adult roles and decisions. I'm eager to pick up the next volume.
Great story with a E.T./Stranger Things feel that fairly zips along. Looking forward to the next volume...
Would have given five stars, but the repeated use of slurs—even though it was called out—felt unnecessarily damaging. Otherwise, this was interesting with a sort of Stranger Things vibe, but yeah, definitely would have preferred it without the slurs.
I decided to read this one for few reasons: firstly, because it was on Goodreads Choice Award list, secondly, I liked Brian's “Saga” series , and I am reading a lot of comics recently.
Amazing Start for the series, and I especially liked the wonderful colors.
Art is beautiful and the characters are realistic. Although they're teen and pre-teen girls, they are very multidimensional (much like actual girls). also the art is FUCKING BEAUTIFUL
Four pre-teens investigating weird happenings in the middle of the 1980s. The Stranger Things comparison seems obvious, and while the books themselves are very different there's a similar level of quality in the story being told.
4 girls on a paper route get stuck in the middle of a time travel war (?) thumbs up
Okay, so I'm a sucker for Saga. This one has been staring at me at the bookstore for the past few weeks, so I finally broke down and read it. Yeah, I say this a lot, don't I?
Bought it too.
I like the papergirls. It's great that they're young girls. It's great that it's the 80s (with a Monster Squad poster in the opening pages!). And the odd sci-fi plot is intriguing me. So, yeah, I was having a blast with this one.
It's the early hours of the day after Halloween, and four young girls' paper rounds are about to get very weird indeed...before most people have eaten their breakfast, the girls will encounter mysterious hooded figures talking gibberish, some kind of space capsule, futuristic knights riding pteranodon like dragons, and more.
Brian K Vaughan's SAGA is my favourite ongoing comic series, and this sees him taking that super imaginative pulp SF vibe and putting it firmly into an Earthbound location, and even more firmly into a 1980s setting. There are intriguing ideas here, and I like the art and it's palette of blues and purples a lot, but it's hard to be any more positive than that at this stage. The four principals feel a little underdeveloped so far, in contrast to the way everyone fell in love with SAGA's cast from the off. I like the way the story piles mystery on top of mystery, but a lot will depend on the resolution of those mysteries. Vaughan has thrown an awful lot of balls into the air, and at the moment we have no idea where any of them are going to land. There's a lot of promise here, and this could turn out to be a brilliant series, or it could just as easily collapse into a shambolic mess. I'll stick around to find out, but I'm not completely onside yet.
