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Amazon Prime
Netflix’s
will only have one more season Stranger Things , which means there is a blank new show set in the 80s, It tells the story of children’s struggles with shady organizations and other sci-fi monsters and events. Enter
Paper Girl , a new sci-fi series from Amazon Prime Video about a group of newspaper delivery girls who accidentally travel through time and have to escape The Old Watch, a group of time travelers set out to outlaw anyone who gains the ability to travel through time.
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and like strangers,
The show has a main name associated with the show: Ali Wong. The comedian plays one of the future adult versions of Erin, a young girl who travels through time. Meanwhile, actresses who play young girls are getting their first major TV roles, like Stranger Things actor.
But unlike the Netflix shows we know and love,
Paper Girls
is actually based on the comic series written by Brian K. Vaughan and drawn by Cliff Chiang. In the four years from 2015 to 2019, the series won two Eisner Awards and was shortlisted for a Hugo Award. Vaughan is one of the best comic book writers in the game right now, having written pivotal plots for Marvel and DC Comics, and author of award-winning series
Saga. Another of his winning series, Y: The Last Man, was adapted as The drama aired last year on FX. Back in 2019, Oscar Isaac bought another rights his series, called Ex Machina (and, confusingly, no – it’s not the same Ex Machina
Mr. Isaac already starred back in 2015).
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This isPaper GirlsThe manga is really, really good. Whether you want to tackle it before the show, or watch the Amazon Prime Video adaptation first, it’s a must-read.
So where do you start with your manga series? Thankfully, the whole Paper Girls series is sold in a handy book for just $50.
Not ready to invest in an 800 page story? The whole story is also divided into six volumes, each volume has five issues Paper Girls
. But we know you’ll love it.
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Milan Polk is male Wellness editorial assistant specializing in entertainment and lifestyle reporting, previously based in New York Magazine’s Vulture and Chicago Tribune.
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