I freaking love this comic! This issue just reaffirms how incredibly great Paper Girls is. It's really not surprising that this comic won an Eisner Award for "best new series" this year. They also won an award for "best penciller/inker or penciller/inker team" although there is a typo on one page which is odd.
This has been the best issue I've read so far although I haven't read all of them but it's so good. There is so much going on and with this issue and it's just all over the place. I am also just constantly amazed by the artwork. The full washes of color that are used which I cannot get enough of, the huge ship flying in the sky is awesome, like something out of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The environments are done so well also. And it's funny seeing downtown Cleveland from high up in the sky. I lived in Cleveland for a couple years, in Ohio City right next to downtown Cleveland and it's just funny to think that they are totally showing my street and my landlords glass blowing place if the scenes were drawn accurately, lol. They are pretty close enough too with the skyline of downtown Cleveland although they probably make Cleveland look a lot nicer than it really is since it's such an awful place. Maybe it wasn't back in the 80's but it's never evolved past 1987 anyways so it's fitting that Paper Girls takes place there.
If you haven't gotten into Paper Girls yet, you really should and usually it's not the best idea to start off with a comic with some random issue but this one will have you trapped into loving it.
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