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Of Embassies and Origins - Justice League International Part 2 (Eaglemoss Collection v77)

  Review: Since we are doing a series of reviews focusing on Booster Gold over his nearly 40-year history, we include this one as a collection of some of his earliest appearances, dating to late 1987. That places the original publish date of these tales while his original solo series was still going strong.  This book is a beautiful, glossy hard-cover with smooth and heavy-stock paper inside, although the sometimes-low print reproduction quality leads to blurred and hard to read word balloons on occasion. It is also a rare book here in North America, as Eaglemoss Collections targeted UK fans with this series. At this point in the history of the 1987-rebooted Justice League, they have gained official United Nations recognition and sanction. To ensure their reach truly is global, they rebrand as Justice League International (as does the title of the series!) and they open new headquarters buildings around the world: New York, Paris and Moscow are included here. As this is a product of 19
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Strong Women of the Far Future and Past: Paper Girls volume 3

 

Cover of Paper Girls volume 3

Review:

With the Folding, the time portal at the end of volume 2 blasting our four Paper Girls backwards into the 12th century BCE, volume 3 of this Eisner and Harvey Award-winning series turns down the sci-fi and turns the danger dial all the way up. Prehistoric creatures. Armed locals. Wilderness ravines and other dangers. And three very dangerous, angry, homicidal men exiled from their stone-age tribe.

Erin, Mac, KJ and Tiffany encounter young Wari, barely their age, and her infant son Jahpo. They are quickly pulled into Wari's quest to find the dream women, while avoiding the three men - one or more of whom may be responsible for siring Jahpo.

Their path home seems impossible - how does one find a time machine when one is thousands of years back in pre-history? But when they run into Qanta Braunstein, the woman who invented time travel on her breakthrough journey - well, rescue her actually, from the clutches of the three men - suddenly they feel hope return.

Swirled into Brian K Vaughan's tense, edge-of-the seat storytelling are many touching moments of courage, honor, bravery, sacrifice and friendship. This volume is the most powerful so far, in this tremendously fun and engaging series. The coming-of-age motif makes a powerful return, and we get exciting new glimpses and revelations about these girls and their strength of character. Freed from the 1980s references of the first volume, and the creative imagining of how children of the 80s would react to 2016 of the second volume, the creative team was more able to dive deep into the characters themselves.

Cliff Chiang and Matt Wilson continue to do amazing work with the images. The art is strong from end to end, and Wilson's use of colors is inspired and well deserving of the multiple awards he won for the series.

And by this point, if you are not paying attention to the eyes of the different characters, you need to back up and reread parts. Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, famously obsessed over the eyes of his creations, as they were so important to convey life and character. Chiang must feel the same, as he switches through several different ways of drawing the eyes of the characters, to fit different moments in their stories. Just one of the many little details packed into these graphic novel pages.



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Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s Eisner Award winning series Paper Girls is coming Amazon Prime Video in July 2022!

The multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning series from BRIAN K. VAUGHAN and CLIFF CHIANG continues, as newspaper deliverers Erin, Mac and Tiffany finally reunite with their long-lost friend KJ in an unexpected new era, where the girls must uncover the secret origins of time travel... or risk never returning home to 1988.

Collects: issues #11-15

Authors:  Brian K Vaughan
Artists:  Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson
Published By:  Image Comics
Published When:  Aug. 8, 2017
Parental Rating: Teen
ISBN:  978-1534302235
Pages:  128 pages


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