Comic Review: Paper Girls #27

Paper Girls #27

Image Comics

Writer: Remove term: brian k vaughn Brian k Vaughn

Artist: Cliff Chiang & Matt Wilson

With the announcement that Paper Girls will be coming to an end this July, Brian K. Vaughan and his team have used this last arc of the series to start wrapping up conflicts between the Old-Timers, the first generation who time travels and believes there should be rules against altering timelines, and the Teenagers, descendants of the Old-Timers who are fighting against the OT’s rules.

These last few issues have begged the age-old question of whether or not time can and should be altered by time travel, which is the heart of the conflict of the “Battle of the Ages”. Both sides have compelling arguments with neither side being completely right or wrong.

At the end of issue #25, one of Erin’s first generation clones displaced all four girls into different time periods for their “protection”, which causes tons of turmoil within the timeline. Also, Jahpo’s ship, which is stuck inside the fourth dimension, experienced a breach from an unknown traveler, who is revealed in issue #27.

No major action occurs in this most recent issue, but we do learn a few things. Erin isn’t the only one with clones, comics aren’t the only way time travelers have communicated their secrets with one another, and in the far future, the paper girls have already helped end the war, although we don’t know exactly how just yet.

In the next issue, I expect to hear more from Jahpo concerning Old-Timers’ reasoning for keeping such strict rules. I have my theories about how the war is/will be resolved, but I’m keeping a tight lip. I loved how this issue propelled the storyline. For the first time, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, which is coming up too soon.

On another note, the second deluxe edition of the series is coming out in a few short days, and it’s even more beautiful than the first deluxe.