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Paper Girls Vol. 1
Paper Girls Vol. 1
Paper Girls Vol. 1
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Paper Girls Vol. 1

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From BRIAN K. VAUGHAN, #1 New York Times bestselling writer of SAGA and THE PRIVATE EYE, and CLIFF CHIANG, legendary artist of Wonder Woman, comes the first volume of an all-new ongoing adventure. In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 2-yearold newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smashhit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood. Collects PAPER GIRLS #1-5.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 30, 2016
ISBN9781632158574
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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Enjoyed reading this volume so I can't wait to read more!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Cute story with great art! Edge of my seat the whole time can’t wait to read the other volumes!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This was so hilarious and different. I didn't know what to expect with this one, but it was good. I'm so intrigued to see what happens in the next volume.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    3.5 starsIt’s the late 1980s. 12-year old Erin is doing her paper route in the early morning hours of Nov. 1, so there are still people wandering about in costumes from Halloween. When a group of boys starts harassing her, three other girls (also delivering their papers – but they are doing so together) come to Erin’s rescue. They stick together the rest of the night, but there are weird things going on… from something that looks like the spaceship from War of the Worlds to other creepy looking monsters roaming about outside. Not only that, the girls’ parents (at least the two whose homes they went to) seem to have disappeared. I liked this. Nice illustrations (it’s a graphic novel) and I liked the 80s references. It did end on a bit of a cliffhanger and I definitely plan to continue, but it might take me a while to get to the second volume.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I've just come to the end of the sixth and final volume of Paper Girls (no spoilers) and I'm posting my review here for anyone thinking of picking up the series. It's a fun sci-fi frolic in the company of four teenage girls plucked from their paper round in the late Eighties. Extremely fast-paced, Paper Girls bounces from set-piece to cliffhanger via surreal spectacle drenched in pop-flavoured pinks, oranges and greens. The flightiness is anchored by a growing friendship between the four leads, and a romance subplot that lends the story heart.While both plot and character may feel a little too lightly sketched at times, there are subtle shifts in personality to enjoy and an emerging, melancholy theme about giving up on the illusion of control over one's life. The overall impression is something like an art-house movie wrapped inside the trappings of a nostalgic Spielbergian blockbuster.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Had me hooked from the first issue. An intriguing sci-fi concept with enough mysterious light exposition that I'm very curious to see where it goes!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I absolutely loved this book! I loved the group of girls, riding around on their bikes, kicking ass. I will definitely be picking up the other volumes as soon as possible.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Interesting graphic novel. Confusing to follow but creative and different. Contains time travel, aliens, giant dinosaurs, teenagers trying to make sense of the changes in their world and strong female characters.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The artwork is fantastic. The story moved a little too quickly at times. Basically, the reader is plopped right into the middle of chaos and is left wondering what the heck is going on just like the four 12-year-old paper girls. Overall a good start to the series and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next (though I'm also a little nervous because time travel always boggles my mind).
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A retro-80s grrl power time travel alien invasion thrill ride! Contains some period-appropriate homophobic slurs and sexism (these get called out in the narrative), as well as gun violence. TOO GREAT. If you liked Stranger Things but wish the women had been treated better, this is a great place to go. I felt giddy reading this.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Paper Girls has been described as Stranger Things with a feminist slant, and this is pretty true, though more sci-fi than horror. A group of pre-teen and teenage girls deliver papers in their small town where nothing ever happens - until it does. One early morning while riding their route, they are robbed by strange men who wrap their faces like mummies. They go to retrieve their stolen property, only to find that the story gets much weirder from there.

    The artwork in Papergirls is amazing, particularly the coloring. Somehow the colorist has managed to embrace the neon, blinding colors of the 80's with the eerie, dim-lit pre-dawn light of early mornings. The effect is stunning.

    The story is intriguing, but I've finally been able to identify what bothers me about Vaughan's stories. The stories are excellent, but often feel too vast to be contained in the stories. I would get invested, and then, oh, it's over. Sci-fi is an intense genre, with twists and turns, and condensing it into slim volumes like Papergirls leaves the reader feeling vaguely unsatisfied, even though the story was great.

    Despite that, the references to pop culture in the 80's, along with the vague hints at the world the girls have inadvertently stumbled into, is intriguing and hopefully will continue to develop as the story goes on.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Looking forward to more of this series...
    younger, female heroes
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The premise, that young girls working on their paper route during the early morning hours after Halloween, 1988, stumble upon a dark mystery, is tantalizing in that way that reminded me of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. But every time the story tried to move out of Act I1 and beyond the premise, it felt like the gears of the plot got gunked up, and the story fell apart for me. One of my problems was that at times the story became a little too "real" for the original premise. This broke my association with the book and made it hard to stay in the moment. But overall this is still a good book and Brian K Vaughan is one of the best comic book writers out there. This one just didn't strike me as much as Runaways or Saga.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Thoroughly enjoyable. Who doesn't love a time traveling paper girl? Would it have killed them to find one woman to join their crew of four men writing about teenage girls? Probably not, but it's still a good read.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    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.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Fun SF adventure book starring a group of tween newspaper delivery girls. Starts weird and gets weirder. Pretty damn enjoyable
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Feels like Saga meets Stranger Things -- 1980s paper girls on an inter-dimensional time travel adventure. Intriguing, fast paced, but more questions than answers, and from reading Saga I have no expectation that those answers will be revealed.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Brian K. Vaughan has a very creative mind and his imagination is in full force here. In 1988, during the early hours of November 1st, four pre-teen newspaper delivery girls run into strange beings and creatures while everyone else seems to have vanished. The world seems to be in danger, and they certainly are at risk as they try to figure out the mystery and stay alive. The girls are snarky and fiercely independent and each one is a three-dimensional, fully realized character, something else Vaughan excels in. Chiang's art style is perfect for this book, bringing these girls to life with well drawn expressions and body language. I can't wait to find out what happens next.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    {First of 6 volumes Paper Girls series 1-5; graphic novel, YA, sci-fi, mystery} (2016)I've seen this recommended around LT and I considered getting it for my kids, who enjoyed watching Stranger Things but unfortunately, volumes 1 and 3 are not available from my bookshop. I managed to find it on Overdrive but for some reason it had to download on my browser rather than on the app (maybe because it's a GN?). This made it a bit awkward to read, especially as I kept having to reload/ refresh the browser quite a few times.That aside, it is an intriguing story and at 1/6th of the way through, I would like to see how it plays out. I'm going to have to get hold of a hard copy and re-read this properly but I'm planning on continuing with the remaining five volumes of this series. I like the way the artists have mixed ethnicities and social classes without making a song and dance about it. (In this year of high sensitivity I couldn't miss that.)3.5 starsOkay - I managed to download the GN to my desktop where I didn't have to constantly refresh the screen and I had it on the larger screen which made for a more cohesive experience - and maybe reading it the second time through helped me understand the story a bit better. The story begins in the early morning after Hallowe'en 1988 (the year of the Bush/ Dukakis election) in Stony Creek, Ohio with a twelve year old girl getting up very early in the morning to do her paper round on her bicycle for the Cleveland Preserver. As she does her rounds, she is accosted by a group of older teenage boys but then rescued by three other paper girls - Mac, Tiffany and KJ - so she asks to join them. And then things get weird as they are attacked by beings. Whether these are aliens, people from the future or people from a parallel dimension we have yet to find out ...We start off with the main protagonist, Erin, in heaven having to save her younger sister from hell but we quickly realise she is dreaming. At a later point she has a delirium dream (compered by Ronal Reagan); I'm not sure if her dreams tie into the story somehow but there is a constant theme of an apple. Intense. Intriguing. I want to know what happens next - actually, I want to know what just happened.I'm upping my rating to 5 stars *****
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is a fun little weird comic. It looks like it's for a younger crowd, but I'd recommend this for teens and older. There is some violence, language, and general weird sci-fi type horror.

    This is a very visual story. The ink colors are awesome and really just add to the ambiance of the story. These girls are not your typical tweleve year olds and nothing about what is happening to them is normal. This is accented by the bold drawings and use of language.

    It's kick-ass. Read it.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    It was weird. I don't think I understood what was going on. But the artwork was good.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The storyline is getting wackier and wackier and I am digging it. Next stop volume 4!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I liked this volume but thought the left-leaning politic references were a little odd for a comic series written by Brian K. Vaughan (he usually, like in Ex Machina, stays pretty neutral). Other than that I enjoyed the story and the jokes about the 1980s compared to the techno-friendly 2010s.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I can't wait to find out what happens in Vol 3!

    The art is pretty great, the colors are great, and I feel like I'm starting to piece the story together.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    3.5 stars. Maybe Vol. 1 set the bar a little too high, because its awesomeness was completely unexpected and really bowled me over. As a result, I expected great things from this volume, and ... it was OK. The art is still lovely, but I felt less invested in the characters than before (maybe I needed to reread Vol. 1 first?) and less surprised by the twists, or what I think were supposed to be twists. Still recommend the series to comic lovers, though -- I do think it's doing something fresh and yet nostalgic, which is pretty fun.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    There's a lot I like, but 5 issues in and I'm really struggling to follow anything that's going on...
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I loved this book. The girls being back together was a plus, but the girl with the baby just blew me away. I love how she is not taking any slack from anyone. The story is again fast paced, but I really am enjoying that. I feel like everything will wrap up towards the end of the series.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    In the previous book, Mac, Tiffany, and Erin wind up in 2016 standing in front of adult Erin's car. They ask for her help in finding KJ. Older Erin's phone and their apple device synch up and show a map of the old mall that they used to hang out at so they make plans to go there. Meanwhile, Mac and Tiffany want to find out what happened to them and Mac gets the worst news ever in that she learns that she died. When they get to the mall they get a message from KJ's hockey stick saying not to trust the other Erin. Then another Erin from the future shows up to take them to the future. Erin decides not to trust the future one and they follow KJ's instructions and find themselves backward in time to the caveman days with KJ. Mac decides to go off to be alone with her thoughts and winds up by the river where she runs into a native young woman with a baby who attacks her. The other three come to her rescue and the woman stops her attack, but then a huge animal comes up and Mac winds up being swatted in the river and KJ goes in after her.The girls had seen a streak in the sky that Mac and KJ believe could have been a time machine. It was Doctor Qanta Braunstein who believes that she is the first to time travel. However, she is captured by the three men who consider themselves the father of the young woman's child. They are hunting her in the forest to take her child away from her.The girls want to save the woman time traveler who could maybe get them home and they want to help the young woman with the baby. How will their actions effect the future timeline? Will they be able to make it out of the prehistoric time and get back to their own time? This series just keeps ratching up the action and twists in the story that you don't see coming. It makes this an exciting comic and one worth reading. I highly recommend this book.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Our four heroines are reunited in the prehistoric past, where the locals are dealing with weird repercussions from time travel. At the same time another time traveler has also arrived at the same time and her reception is less than friendly.Characters develop, a little more of the big plot is revealed, and, of course, the volume ends with a cliffhanger that leaves me very glad I've got the next volume in hand.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A much more compact bit of time in the story of Papergirls (takes place in 2-3 incidents over maybe an hour) and has the same brilliant pacing and firecracker dialogue as the first too volumes. There's not really enough here to get you emotionally invested but as an overall part of Paper Girls, a feminist version of Stranger Things, really a joyous bullet train between volumes 2 and 4.

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