Paper Girls, Volume 1 has been out for some time. I bought the digital versions of the first five issues a year ago, when they were on sale for $1 each on Amazon.com. My son's birthday is tomorrow, and I was setting up his Kindle Fire HD10 (great for comics, by the way), and I thought I'd finally give it a go. The basic story is that four papergirls find themselves in deep shit. Demons, aliens, time travelers, all that sort of jazz. It's 1988, and they have no idea what's going on. Maybe the rapture?
I wasn't that big a fan of We Stand on Guard, which came out just before Paper Girls, and that's part of the reason I didn't get into this title. Of course, I've read all of Saga and Y: The Last Man, plus a few other titles. Like most comic book fans, I buy more than I read, so I have a few more Brian K. Vaughan titles I might get into. Paper Girls is solid and strange; it's nostalgic and funny. I have Volume 2 coming in the mail tomorrow, and I'll probably pick up Issue #11 and Issue #12 when the latter comes out.
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