Paper Girls Volume 6

I enjoyed Paper Girls through to the end, though I kind of suspect I would have liked volume 6 more if I had read it in quick succession with the rest: the time shenanigans get complicated, and I read the thirty issues stretched out over twenty-nine months; volume 6 came ten months after volume 5! But I enjoyed the character beats here and the triple-bluff ending and the glimpse at the paper girls' future, even if it probably doesn't happen that way. Someday I'll sit down and read it all in quick succession. (Who am I kidding? I never have the time to reread anything.)

A fine ending -- if a bit of a whimper -- to a pretty darn good series. I think it will definitely reward a re-reading.

In thinking about Vaughan's many series, I wonder if he has ever truly stuck the ending. Offhand, I can't really recall how any of his books ended. It seems they are most memorable and thrive in the middle, where his characters are established and they interact in interesting ways.

Hugo 2020 Nominations (Best Graphic);

I was not excited to see this title on the list again this year. Last year I hit *Paper Girls* for the first time, high on the thought of it being a new Brian Vaughn work I'd never read, and excited. Which lasted about twenty minutes, and ended up with me rating the Vol. 1 with exactly 1 star, because of the hodgepodge mess I found it to be.

I drug my feet opening this one because of it, BUT I found myself pleasantly surprised. I skipped a number of volumes in between, but 90% of this graphic novel made since by itself, which is basically what a conclusion arc needs to be able to do anyway. The art has improved and it was much easier to tell the girls apart this time, too.

I didn't end up with a lot show more of emotional involvement with the text, so much as some involvement with my feelings of the 'papergirls' together. I wish that had been strung together stronger in their last morning, as it ended up feeling more anticlimatic rather than hopeful about future bonds, especially as it was pulling them apart more than putting them together (for more than this one hour), but it was livable and I'm glad to give it a midway grade this time. show less

This closes the Paper Girls series, and I don't know if I would have felt let down regardless of how the story ends, but it all felt a bit trite. I still enjoyed it, and there were some fabulous choices in terms of parallel story telling with four protagonists spread over time, but it was all too pat. I didn't understand how the overarching war came to an end the way it did, and I felt ripped off with the ending for the protagonists.

The end of the mind-bending time-hopping headwrecking adventure as the Paper Girls, thrown apart into different eras, struggle to reconnect, reunite and return home. As the twisting story is finally untwisted the paper Girls shine once more, as great a group of friends to hang out with while chased through dimensions by dinosaurs and cavemen.

aw. it's done. i reread the whole series on the way to this one: great characters, great use of dueling timelines and dueling generations, lots of emotion coming through between the lines. fabulous artwork and coloration too. absolutely a must-read title in any best of the twenty-tens.

I liked paper girls, though I generally hate time travel stories.

This final volume was messy and a little disappointing. I am going to blame some of that on the time travel. I might also have waited too long between volume 5 and 6. It's been months since I read the previous volumes and they are a little fuzzy for me, but I still have the gist.