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454: I Wrote a Letter to Myself

Published: April 6, 2019, 11:37 p.m.

\u201cPaper Girls\u201d is a comic that looks like it\u2019s steeped in \u201980s nostalgia, then makes you think it\u2019s a modern story commenting on \u201980s nostalgia, and then takes a 90-degree turn and becomes something even more interesting. This week we discuss the comic by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, which begins as a story about four girls delivering newspapers on a morning in 1988. The first 25 minutes or so is all spoiler-light, and then after the Spoiler Horn we jump into our discussion of the first two trade-paperback collections. (There are five volumes in all, with the sixth and final collection due this summer.)