The Paper Girls, those intrepid time-traveling teens, have their third book and final book collection available this week from Image.

Book Three, Deluxe Edition contains the contents of single issues 21 to 30, along with covers, clip art, T-shirt ads, and all kinds of other cool bonus material.

This book is big, at 328 pages in hardcover.

Written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, and coloured by Matt Wilson, this saga is the emotional story of four time-traveling newspaper delivery girls, risking everything in the hopes of making it back home to 1988. A mix of Stand By Me, War Of The Worlds, and hey, a heavy trippy mind-bending acid trip, this final volume really turns up the monster drama.

Whether it’s rude preteen dialogue, impudent overlords, or hallucinatory explanations of what it’s like to meet multiple versions of yourself, this one has it all. You’ll want your SmartWatch to keep you in the right century, and your GPS tracker to stay in one place, reading this massive tome. There is a lot to take in, but if you can stick with it, the rewards are great. The plot, the enormity of the subtexts, and surroundings all considered, this mind-twisting labyrinthian tale of The Paper Girls DOES deliver. Right to your front porch.

Shut the front door if you can, but the smooth shapes and lines of Chiang’s artistic interpretation, coupled with the brilliant and ever-varying palette of Matt Wilson keeps it entering the mind. SIdeways, front or back, every which way but loose.

Image Comics, The Paper Girls Deluxe Edition Book Three Hardcover, $34.99 for 328 pages of content Teen +

By Alan Spinney

After a career of graphic design, art direction and copywriting, I still have a passion for words and pictures. I love it when a comic book comes together; the story is tight, and the drawings lead me forward. Art with words... the toughest storytelling technique to get right. Was this comic book worth your money? Let's see!!

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