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Rocket Girl Volume 1: Times Squared (2014)

by Brandon Montclare(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1632150557 (ISBN13: 9781632150554)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Image Comics

review 1: An interesting story with some amazing artwork. Amy Reeder is always awesome with her work, and she makes the 80s shine in this time-travel story. I liked the concept well enough - teen cop from the future (2013!) travels back in time to 1986 to stop a corporation that gets too greedy and too powerful from making a mysterious device... but is this all just a series of events that ensure the corporation comes to power in the future? Paradox alert! But the pacing of this story is off. Things happen too quickly, with DaYoung (Rocket Girl) suddenly appearing in 1986 and then being taken in by the very scientists she's supposed to stop. There's a lot of shouting for dialogue and not much in the way of character development. I found myself more interested in what was happ... moreening in the 2013 that's supposed to become the past, since the story took a little more time to unfold there. I think there's potential here, but the storytelling has to take a deep breath, slow down, maybe calm down a bit, and give us more to like about these characters.
review 2: 15-year-old Dayoung Johansson of the New York Teen Police traveled back from 2013 to 1986 to stop the world from being changed. The questions that ends up being asked is did her trip happen to stop the change or cause it to occur? Plenty of action, plenty of quips, fights in subways, fun characters, and twisted logic makes this a quick, introspective read. It will be interesting to see what Volume 2 has in store for The Rocket Girl! less

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