It is evident that the 80s have become fashionable as far as fiction stories are concerned, surely because the authors who lived through those years are reluctant to let them pass and want to continue delving into the many science fiction phenomena that were born from one day to the next. other. So, even if it’s updated, we’ll have a new helping of adventures, bikes and eighties teenagers this time on Amazon and during the month of July. Paper Girls is her name.
See you with your future self?
Surely many of you remember a legendary video game from the 80s called Paper Boy , which, more or less, means the boy from the newspapers, the one who distributes the press in the mornings in the houses of the subscribers. Well, Paper Girls is the female version of that profession that teenagers signed up to earn a few dollars. Only along the way, its authors, Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, have wanted to print their stamp of fantasy, science fiction and time travel.
Precisely, Vaughan does not hide the origin of the inspiration for these Paper Girls : Back to the Future and Marty McFly although “I wanted to do something different… something more contained, but based on some spectacular element”. That idea gave rise to a first publication in 2015, within a collection of comics that grew over the months and was very well received by the younger audience, which quickly made it a success.
In short, and according to its authors, Paper Girls is “the story of four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls who grow up […] in the suburbs of Cleveland in the late 1980s. But they stumble upon something extraordinary; it is a mystery, an adventure and a strange book.
How many numbers are there?
Paper Girls has been published between the months of October 2015 and July 2019 and has given time for fans to have been able to read 30 issues that cover countless adventures of these delivery girls who will have the opportunity to travel through time and meet their other selves, above all, from the future. A moment of their lives that does not seem to be idyllic and that will be one of the main engines in all the plots.
With the Paper Girls series , Amazon bets on having its own Stranger Things with adventurous girls , bicycle in hand and who face a dangerous problem that not only affects their time, but also other realities in which they are present. We’ll see how the bet turns out anyway, although, luckily, we’ll be able to see the result very soon, because it will be July 29 when we can finally see the result on Prime Video of an adaptation that is already raising unusual expectations.
Didn’t you know these Paper Girls ? Well, you’re in time to soak up his comics.