Paper Girls Volume 1 (Paper Girls, #1)

by Brian K. Vaughan

Cliff Chiang (Artist), Matthew Wilson (Artist), Jared K Fletcher (Artist), and Brian K. Vaughan

Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s Eisner Award winning series PaperGirls is coming Amazon Prime Video in July 2022!

From Brian K. Vaughan,#1 New York Times bestselling writer of SAGA, and Cliff Chiang, legendary artistof WONDER WOMAN, comes the first volume of an all-new ongoingadventure.

In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-oldnewspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburbandrama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smash-hit series aboutnostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood.

Collecting Issues#1-5 for only $9.99! "Along with Paper Girls, Brian K. Vaughan is thewriter/co-creator of the graphic novels Saga, The PrIvate Eye, We Stand OnGuard, Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, Pride of Baghdad, The Hood, andThe Escapists. His work has been recognized at the Hugo, Eisner, Harvey,Shuster, Eagle, and British Fantasy Awards. BKV sometimes dabbles in film andtelevision work from Los Angeles, where he lives with his family and their loyalwiener dog Hamburger K. Vaughan. After graduating from the Kubert School JAREDK. FLETCHER began working at DC Comics as part of their new in-house letteringdepartment. A few years later, he left to pursue his freelance career as theproprietor of Studio Fantabulous. He spends his long days designing logos,books, t-shirts, art directing covers, and lettering comic books.CLIFF CHIANGbegan working in editorial for Vertigo Comics before making the leap intofreelance illustration in 2000 and he hasn't looked back. He's best known forhis work on Human Target, Green Arrow & Black Canary, and Wonder Woman.Cliff lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

MATT WILSON has been coloringcomics since 2003, getting his start coloring for the comics coloring studioZylonol Studios. After a few years in the studio, Matt eventually branched outon his own to color titles like Phonogram, Young Avengers, Thor, Daredevil,Wonder Woman, Swamp Thing, and The Wicked + The Divine. In 2015, Matt's workearned him Eisner Award and Harvey Award nominations.
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• ISBN10: 1632156741
• ISBN13: 9781632156747
• Publish Date: 5 April 2016
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Image Comics
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 144
• Language: English

Reviews

[Hillary]

I am getting into comics. Maybe I will just call this a comic review blog. I had difficulty concentrating due to not having the appropriate energy.  So I decided to read this from Hoopla. My first impression was not that great. I looked at the artwork and was like meh, but it had good reviews, so I started reading, and by the second issue, I was blown away.

I understood that it was meant to give a campy old timey feel with a sort of space/alien thingie thrown in. I am a sucker for anything spacey, so when the aliens showed up, I was all I for this series. I am deaf, and I did not hear the sounds growing up, so that had English half whatever threw me off a little. Had to ask m mom to translate it into American Standard English. Heh oh well but other than that I loved the story line and the plot...mostly. The part I understood that is.

The book jumps right into the story line with almost no back story, so I felt like I was missing something. Then came the human-like aliens on flying dragons..ok. Can live with that. Then came the horribly disfigured dudes from the future with the Apple guy being the evil Grandfather? I am not sure. I know I could wrap my mind around it if I was stoned but it is illegal here in da hillz.  I saw the machine on the disfigured teenagers and y'all know I have a machine stuck on me so that kinda pissed me off a little. I was like ya know SOME THINGS ARE GOOD!.  Then there was the time travel. I was like umm so are we in the future or are we back in time now? My tiny little sober mind could not handle it.

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Anyway, after I got through all the issues, I sat and tried to make my sober brain comprehend the what I know are some deep metaphors in this comic. I failed.  I think everyone was stoned when they made this comic, and now I am totally making books that should be read stoned bookshelf on Goodreads.  I am intrigued enough to continue the series. I hope it all comes together in Vol 2 in a way that sober people can wrap their tiny little minds around. I would recommend this to people..but you gotta bend your mind in ways that you normally wouldn't or it is probably best read along with a big bowl of Jamaican weed. coughsThis review was originally posted on Adventures in Never Never Land

[inlibrisveritas]

Paper Girls has been getting some good reviews lately so I figured I’d take the chance on a review copy and see what the fuss was all about. Quite frankly, I’m not entirely sure I know…even after reading it. I’m not questioning people’s tastes, but I am seriously questioning my reading comprehension. I feel like I’m missing some key elements of this story, because I spent 70% of my time confused.

This is a story that presents itself to the reader at the same pace it presents itself to the characters…and while that’s not a bad thing, in fact I tend to enjoy that in comics, I found myself getting frustrated at it. I’m assuming this has some deeper meaning about the use of technology …or something. Honestly I don’t know. Half of the players in this don’t speak English….or proper english, so we don’t even get most of the info they give out. I expected to be confused a bit with a time travel type story, but there are so many elements that just come out of no where and I have so many questions.

I think Paper Girls is a love it or leave it affair. It has some strong art and the dialogue between the girls is pretty great, but I think there is where my appreciation ends. I’m not sure I’ll be picking the others in the series up, but I will be on wikipedia looking for a summary.