A review by tvislife
Paper Girls: The Complete Story by Brian K. Vaughan

3.0

I’ve thought about reading this one a lot, and finally got around to it. It’s a coming-of-age story, following a group of paper delivery girls as they get dragged through time. 

I didn’t love this, but I didn’t dislike it either. I think the writers did an excellent job of making it feel very 80’s in the way they talk to each other, and their little references. The art was totally gorgeous, the art style is what drew me to these comics in the first place—engaging and colorful, every page had some new treat to look at. 

I just didn’t really care about the story much. The time travel stuff felt kinda awkward and random at times, and the “war” was hard to follow, even just over a few days—I have no idea how people followed the plot when they went week by week. The old-timers vs. the young people just didn’t seem super clear to me, and the random dinosaurs and robots threw me off, like who was for what and what even was happening?? 

This is a good choice for someone who loves comics and coming of age stories, especially combined, but for anyone else, you could take or leave it.