mrglasswillbreak’s Reviews > Paper Girls: The Complete Story > Status Update

Pretty close to the end now, and things are starting to get a bit clearer. Finally realizing that what makes this book to enticing, besides the obvious nostalgic feel of it, is how well it mixes teenage/childhood drama, and real world problems, with its initially slow burn but well tought out Sci-Fi/time travel setting. At this point I’ve basically fallen for these girls and feel like I actually know them.

Because the Foldings can only be detected whenever they appear, the Time Travelers use normal civilians they’ve caught up to speed to monitor and find Foldings to use to time travel. Older Tiffany is very cool, wasn’t expecting the drastic life changes but I appreciate how it all hints at how unpredictable life actually is.

I’m not even sure how many original volumes in I am at this point, but 433 pages before explaining all the time travel and sci-Fi ”whatthefuckery” that’s been happening in this book feels like way too many pages. I have to give Brian K. Vaughan his credit, I haven’t seen many writers who’ve managed to keep me this invested in a book for so long without proper world-building explanation.

A generation of rebels from the same tragic future, “Time travelers” who believe every generation has a right to live in the best possible present, even if history has to be altered to achieve it, resist the Old Timers and use “Foldings”, randomly occurring temporal tears that appear all across Spacetime as a result of the original time travel attempt, to, well, time travel and try to change their present.

In the far-too-distant, supposedly terribly tragic future, time travel is invented by the “old timers,” who decide to form an all-powerful organization to protect the current tragic timeline at all costs and strictly prevent any tampering from occurring on it.

Who are the good guys, who are the bad guys, what the fuck is going on? 300 plus pages deep and still no idea

I Have no idea what is going on so far and I know that is somewhat intended by the creators, but I literally couldn’t tell you what happened in the first volume. Nonetheless it pulled me in pretty fast and I’m now two volumes plus deep in the fold now. A 3.5 star read so far, bumped up to 4 for its colorful and very likeable cast of female protagonists and the nostalgic feel of it all.