{"product_id":"rocket-girl-volume-1-times-squared","title":"Brandon Montclare: Rocket Girl Volume 1: Times Squared [2014] paperback","description":"\"With a complex, engaging story and beautiful artwork, this superb\u003cbr\u003ethrowback series is the perfect fit for teen fans of superhero comics,\u003cbr\u003eparticularly girls eager for a realistic-looking hero.\"  -- \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(Starred)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA teenage cop from a high-tech future is sent back in time\u003cbr\u003eto 1986 New York City. Dayoung Johansson is investigating the Quintum Mechanics\u003cbr\u003emegacorporation for crimes against time. As she pieces together the clues, she\u003cbr\u003ediscovers the \"future\" she calls home - an alternate reality version of 2014 -\u003cbr\u003eshouldn't exist at all!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDayoung Johansson is a 15-year-old with attitude-and a jet-pack-wearing cop\u003cbr\u003efrom the future! When a team of physicists at a corporate research lab switch on\u003cbr\u003etheir experimental time machine in 1986, Dayoung bursts through the chamber and\u003cbr\u003edemands they stop their research. Their discoveries, she claims, set off a\u003cbr\u003edomino effect that leads to a future ruled by dirty megacorporation Quintum\u003cbr\u003eMechanics, a future so bleak that she's willing to totally dismantle it. But\u003cbr\u003eNYPD cops in 1986 don't take kindly to a punk kid in a jet pack, and\u003cbr\u003eDayoung-affectionally dubbed Rocket Girl after she performs a handful of daring\u003cbr\u003erescues-quickly finds herself on the wrong side of the law. Flashbacks to the\u003cbr\u003efuture (surprisingly logical) reveal, however, that she may be just a pawn in\u003cbr\u003eQuintum Mechanics' decades-spanning power-grab. Reeder does a stellar job of\u003cbr\u003epacking the cantilevered panels with bursts of bright, punchy color and clearly\u003cbr\u003edepicted, cinematic action, and her characters are refreshingly diverse in race,\u003cbr\u003egender, and body type. Dayoung herself is notably free of the pernicious\u003cbr\u003eoversexualization that plagues so many girl superheroes in contemporary comics.\u003cbr\u003eWith a complex, engaging story and beautiful artwork, this superb throwback\u003cbr\u003eseries is the perfect fit for teen fans of superhero comics, particularly girls\u003cbr\u003eeager for a realistic-looking hero.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Sarah Hunter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Montclare, Brandon \u0026 Reeder, Amy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44667530182946,"sku":"9781632150554","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/montclare-brandon-reeder-amy-rocket-girl-volume-1-times-squared-9781632150554-40857607143714.jpg?v=1678822540","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/rocket-girl-volume-1-times-squared","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}