Published Oct 2017 by Image
Written by Brian K. Vaughan
Art by Cliff Chang and Matt Wilson
Cover by Cliff Chang
32 pages, full color

NEW STORY ARC!

The mind-bending, time-warping adventure continues as intrepid newspaper deliverer Tiffany is launched from the prehistoric past into the year 2000! In this harrowing version of our past, Y2K was even more of a cataclysm than experts feared, and the only person who can save the future is a 12-year-old girl from 1988.

Month in, month out, Paper Girls is the hardest comic to review from being confusing and so awesome at the same time. It can be difficult to endorse a comic that can be so ineffable at times but here we are, month after month, with a new segment of the most engaging adventure comics on shelves. Paper Girls #16 begins a new arc with our girls in a new time, repeating a conflict we’ve seen a few times before now: one of the girls is separated – this time, Tiffany – and we get to learn a lot more about her past and the timeline wars as the rest of the girls hope to find her.

It’s the year 2000 and after having time-travelled several times now, the girls are starting to get the drill. Or, at least, they’re starting to have more confidence in investigating the mess they’re in rather than just scrambling to stay alive. They’re more poised now, detective-like, showing some growth despite always having been a smart bunch of capable kids. Still, the chaos follows them wherever they go and is never expected or predictable – neither by them, or the reader. Remember when we had a giant tardigrade back in Paper Girls #7? Add to the list a couple of giant robots, and Tiffany reflecting the sentiments of her audience.

Overall, the wildest, most confusing comic is the most engaging one out, and we can’t help but cheer for the girls as they – and we – piece together what the “timeline wars” mean and how they can solve them to survive as best they can. Cliff Chiang’s art is as great as Brian K. Vaughan’s dialog, and both work to play up whatever current conflict is in the forefront while building the world a little deeper as they inform the readers, piece by piece, this complicated world they have built. Read this comic. To ignore this book would be crazy.

EXCLUSIVE: Sofia Rosinsky (Fast Layne), Camryn Jones (Cherish the Day), Riley Lai Nelet (Altered Carbon) and Fina Strazza (A Christmas Melody) are set as the four leads in Amazon’s Paper Girls series, based on Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s graphic novel, from Amazon Studios, Legendary TV and Plan B. Paper Girls is set to film in Chicago this year.

Paper Girls follows four young girls (Rosinsky, Jones, Nelet, Strazza) who, while out delivering papers on the morning after Halloween in 1988, become unwittingly caught in a conflict between warring factions of time-travelers, sending them on an adventure through time that will save the world. As they travel between our present, the past, and the future — they encounter future versions of themselves and now must choose to embrace or reject their fate.

Rosinsky plays Mac Coyle. A working-class Catholic girl, Mac is the first paper boy in Stony Stream who isn’t a boy. Mac inherited the paper route from her older brother, someone for whom she has undying loyalty and love… which might be the wrong place to put it. Mac’s toughness however is no act, she has a sharp tongue and quicker fists. Like most bullies however, Mac is perhaps masking a deep well of insecurity. Usually a loner by choice, events conspire to cast Mac as the unlikely leader of our Paper Girls on Hell Day 1988.

Jones portrays Tiffany Quilkin. The only child of success-oriented, mixed race parents, Tiffany has big plans for her future and no intention of seeing them derailed. While she is at times willing to improve on the truth when in a tight spot, there is no denying that Tiffany is crazy smart. She boasts an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture, a love of gadgets and technology. She has been delivering papers for a little over a year.

Lai Nelet is Erin Tieng. A dutiful daughter, sister, and yes, newly-minted newspaper employee, Erin often feels caught between worlds. On the one hand, she’s a dual-language immigrant with deep Chinese roots, on the other, she’s an All-American kid on the verge of her teenage years who desperately wants the TV-perfect life she often sees depicted in the Western culture all around her.

Strazza plays KJ Brandman. KJ is one of the only Jewish girls in Stony Stream and comes from the wealthiest family in town, two things nobody will let her forget. It is perhaps only when playing field hockey that she feels truly seen – an image that conflicts starkly with her mother’s desires for her. KJ is guarded, sensitive and underneath her veneer, emotionally roiling. She doesn’t need the paper-delivery job, but it makes her feel free.

Paper Girls is produced by Amazon Studios and Legendary Television, in association with Plan B. Stephany Folsom, Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers will serve as executive producers. Folsom and Rogers will co-showrun.

Rosinsky was previously a series regular on Disney Channel’s Fast Layne. The young actor and producer co-founded with her sister, Alexis Rosinsky, independent film company, Stellaluna films, and have made numerous short films that have garnered international awards. The duo are currently in pre-production for their first feature film as a team. Rosinsky is repped by Webster Talent Management and Vault Entertainment.

Jones landed the series regular role on the ABC comedy pilot Steps playing Maeve, the sister to Cameron Boyce, in one of his final roles. Jones can currently be seen recurring in such series as Epix’s Perpetual Grace, and also can be seen in Ava Duvernay’s Cherish the Day anthology on OWN as young Esther. Her other television roles include ABC’s sitcom The Mayor and NBC’s Law & Order True Crime. She’s repped by CESD Talent Agency and Industry Entertainment.

Lai Nelet (nay-lay), who appeared on the cover of Vogue Italia and Familiar Japan at an early age, and was seen on ads for Tommy Hilfiger and Nordstrom, opened the catwalk for the Academy of Arts in San Francisco at the age of six. She landed her first role on ABC’s American Housewives and next played the younger Reilleen in Netflix’s Altered Carbon. More recently, Lai Nelet can be seen in Genera+ion on HBO Max. Lai Nelet is repped by A3 Artists Agency and Curtis Talent Management.

Strazza made her Broadway debut at eight years old in the title role of Matilda the Musical. She went on to star in Mariah Carey’s directorial debut, Hallmark Channel’s A Christmas Melody, and recorded a new version of Carey’s hit single “Oh, Santa!” with Carey. In television, Strazza has recurred on Law & Order: SVU and has appeared in episodes of Madam Secretary and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, among others. Her film credits include Above the Shadows, A Little Game, Early Learnings, Fracktured, Tribe, and the upcoming Who Framed Tommy Callahan? Strazza is repped by Paradigm, Mara Entertainment, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman

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