Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Paper Girls, Vol. 4 by Brian K. Vaughan

5 reviews

fifteenthjessica's review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The girls are dropped in right at the peak of Y2K, although Tiffany is separated from the rest. As she tries to reunite with the others in the midst of futuristic mech fights and old fashioned "the tech wasn't made for the year being set for 2000" chaos.

I have expressed concern that this series is pulling a Lost and raising more mysteries than it answers, but this and volume 5 are proving me wrong. Both major mysteries (what's the deal with the time traveler's war?) and minor mysteries (why were the teen time travelers looking for a hint in the comics and the Frankie Tomatah mystery) are revealed, plus, we get the first character outside of the four main paper girls to stick around for more than one volume (aka 5 issues of the comic when it was initially released). Volume 5 does more with the questions, but volume 4 puts most of its time into the characters. Tiffany's future is a bit darker than what she anticipated, and KJ is mentioning the vision she had of her and Mac kissing. The bits with Tiffany were funny. I'm not totally sold on Mac and KJ as a couple. I've never been a big fan of belligerent tension in couples, and the fact that Mac says a lot of homophobic shit, including after KJ mentions she might be a lesbian, makes this kind of uncomfortable.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Violence, Vomit, Blood, Cursing, Drug use, Car accident, Death, Gun violence, and Homophobia

Minor: Cancer, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

peachani's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Vomit, and War

Moderate: Death, Lesbophobia, and Violence

Minor: Confinement

emily_mh's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

I loved how confused I was by this. Not a huge amount happened, but there were some interesting developments. Also, the wonderful colour palette is back.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Vomit, Homophobia, Car accident, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Drug abuse, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Pedophilia, War, Drug use, Sexism, Torture, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Physical abuse

Terrorism, adoption, divorce, explosions, reference to nuclear warfare, reference to bombings

martereadsbooks's review

adventurous dark funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Gore, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Homophobia, Vomit, Drug use, and Alcohol

rnbhargava's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

The adventure continues into another slightly different point in time. Hijinks ensue. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury

A lot happens and is explained in this volume but my favorite volume is still the third.