Paper Girls #14 Review

Writer: Brian K. Vaughan / Artist: Cliff Chiang / Image Comics The worst part of Paper Girls is that it ends entirely too fast. The series continues after KJ touches a new discovery she stumbled across in the woods with Mac, and touching it gave her a different type of time travel and she visualizes flashes of her future. Part of that future included her kissing Mac, and various other scenes we may see later in the book as we learn just how fatalistic this story chooses to be. Can the girls affect their futures or is it predetermined? Or maybe something in between? If KJ and Mac kiss, does it also mean Mac sure to get leukemia and die? As usual, there are more questions than answers, but that’s more than okay given how much you care about these characters. Paper Girls’ biggest strength is simultaneously weaving character- and plot-driven fiction together into one. Bad ass dialogue also helps.

The newly reunited girls finally meet the rest of the characters who have been introduced around them, including Wari, the native girl with the child; Qanta, the new time traveler from the future; and the three evil Geico cavemen who are the immediate threat to them all. Now that introduction have all been made one way or another, the story begins dolling out a few more answers: when Qanta was born (2016), what the cavemen want (the baby), and more. Yet even with all that you still just want to know if the time machine is right, if KJ kisses Mac, and what Apple products have to do with …