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Paper Girls Comics, a Reading Guide for the Brian K. Vaughan series

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Paper Girls Reading Order

Following the success of The Boys, Amazon Prime tried to adapt another comic book but with more of Stranger Things vibe: Paper Girls! Unfortunately, the television adaptation didn’t find its audience and was canceled after one season of only eight episodes.

But before the television show, there was the comic book series and it was a pretty popular one! Paper Girls was written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Cliff Chiang—and published by Image Comics between October 2015 and July 2019. If you want to read it, there are multiple editions. Here is a guide to help you navigate all this.

First, what’s the story? Here is the official Paper Girls synopsis: In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smash-hit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood.

Paper Girls Comics

You can find the Paper Girls Comics in 3 editions, the traditional TPB, the deluxe one, and the compendium one. Each one collects all of the 30 issues.

A. Paper Girls Compendium (softcover)

Let’s start with the last one published, the biggest book of them all. This oversized paperback edition collects the same story along and a brand-new cover from Cliff Chiang!

Paper Girls The Complete Story - Paper Girls Reading Order

Paper Girls Reading Order

B. Paper Girls Deluxe Editions (hardcovers)

This oversized deluxe hardcover edition collects the same story along with exclusive extras and a brand-new cover from Cliff Chiang!

Paper Girls Deluxe Edition Books One - Paper Girls Reading Order

Paper Girls Reading Order

C. Paper Girls TPBs (softcovers)

The original Trade Paperback collection. Six volumes collecting all of the 30 issues.

Paper Girls Vol. 1 - Paper Girls Reading Order

What to read if you like Paper Girls

After reading Paper Girls, you could be interested in reading other comic books written by Brian K. Vaughan:

  • Y: The Last Man follows the sole surviving male human after the spontaneous, simultaneous death of every male mammal on Earth
  • Saga is a space opera/fantasy comic book about a young family fighting to find their place in the worlds.

If you still craving other stories, we recommend you to check out:

  • Plutona, by Jeff Lemire and Emi Lenox, about five kids who discover the body of the world’s greatest super hero, Plutona, in the woods after school one day. 
  • By Night comic, by John Allison about to old high school best friends Jane Langstaff and Heather Meadows, living in Spectrum, a sleeping town where a doorway to an otherworldly dimension is located.

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