Episode 164 – Paper Girls Vol. 1

In this episode, we look ahead to the July 29 debut of Paper Girls on Amazon Prime with a look at Paper Girls Vol. 1, collecting the first five issues of the comics series by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, published by Image Comics!

When four 12-year-old girls join forces to deliver the Cleveland Preserver on the dark pre-dawn morning of Nov. 1, 1988, they find themselves riding their bikes straight into a nightmare of terrifying pterodactyl creatures, menacing, armored “old-timers,” and time-traveling, tech-scavenging teenagers!

 

Can our preteen paper-slingers keep their idyllic suburb from meeting its final deadline? And can they finish their rounds in time to make that extra-special edition known as … The Comics Canon?

In This Episode:

  • “Stranger Things” and the Kids on Bikes genre
  • Writing for the trade and the “Lost” mystery box
  • The Hood: Blood From Stones.
  • Gary Larson’s The Far Side
  • Yellowjackets on Showtime
  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount Plus
  • Super 8

Join us in two weeks as we get ready for the Aug. 5 debut of The Sandman on Netflix with the next installment of our Sandman read-through, Brief Lives! (And you can prepare for the show with our episodes on Preludes and Nocturnes and The Doll’s House!)

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