ComiXmas 4: PAPER GIRLS ...uneasy conversations with our younger selves

ComiXmas 4: PAPER GIRLS ...uneasy conversations with our younger selves

From Quarantined Comics by Quarantined Comics

November 15, 2024 · 47 min · Season 6 · Episode 166

About this episode

The episode discusses the comic series PAPER GIRLS and its themes of friendship and time travel.

Merry ComiXmas Week 4: PAPER GIRLS "Paper girls racing through a neon-lit haze, Bikes clash with time in a wild, twisting maze. With aliens blasting and shadows that creep, They battle through chaos, their secrets to keep— In a trippy adventure where dreams set ablaze!" This holiday season, we're airing our 10 COMICS OF XMAS - an excuse to recommend and replay some our fav books that make a thoughtful gift for your loved ones (or great reading to comfort your dark and lonely nights) PAPER GIRLS by Brian K. Vaughan & Cliff Chiang is the perfect comic for the person who's really a time traveling adventurer. PAPER GIRLS is the multi-Eisner award winning series written by Brian K Vaughan and illustrated by Cliff Chiang, recently adapted as a streaming TV series starring Ali Wong on Amazon (and unfairly called a rip off of Stranger Things, bc as with most things, the comic came first!) Paper Girls starts way back when in 1988, in a suburb of Cleveland, where four twelve year old...you guessed it...Paper Girls - Erin, Tiffany, Mac, and KJ - befriend each other the morning after Halloween and quickly find a creepy basement time machine, and quickly find themselves in a millennia…

People in this episode

Host: Ryan

Topics covered

  • PAPER GIRLS
  • time travel
  • friendship
  • adventure

Keywords

  • ComiXmas
  • Brian K. Vaughan
  • Cliff Chiang
  • Eisner award
  • Amazon

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Bikes, PAPER GIRLS

Books & works: PAPER GIRLS, multi-Eisner award, Stranger Things, LOST, Saga + Y: The Last Man, Eisner, Wonder Woman, the Human Target, Catwoman Lonely City

Places: Cleveland

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