"With a complex, engaging story and beautiful artwork, this superb
throwback series is the perfect fit for teen fans of superhero comics,
particularly girls eager for a realistic-looking hero." -- Booklist
(Starred)
A teenage cop from a high-tech future is sent back in time to 1986 New
York City. Dayoung Johansson is investigating the Quintum Mechanics
megacorporation for crimes against time. As she pieces together the
clues, she discovers the "future" she calls home - an alternate reality
version of 2014 - shouldn't exist at all!
Dayoung Johansson is a 15-year-old with attitude-and a jet-pack-wearing
cop from the future! When a team of physicists at a corporate research
lab switch on their experimental time machine in 1986, Dayoung bursts
through the chamber and demands they stop their research. Their
discoveries, she claims, set off a domino effect that leads to a future
ruled by dirty megacorporation Quintum Mechanics, a future so bleak that
she's willing to totally dismantle it. But NYPD cops in 1986 don't take
kindly to a punk kid in a jet pack, and Dayoung-affectionally dubbed
Rocket Girl after she performs a handful of daring rescues-quickly finds
herself on the wrong side of the law. Flashbacks to the future
(surprisingly logical) reveal, however, that she may be just a pawn in
Quintum Mechanics' decades-spanning power-grab. Reeder does a stellar
job of packing the cantilevered panels with bursts of bright, punchy
color and clearly depicted, cinematic action, and her characters are
refreshingly diverse in race, gender, and body type. Dayoung herself is
notably free of the pernicious oversexualization that plagues so many
girl superheroes in contemporary comics. With a complex, engaging story
and beautiful artwork, this superb throwback series is the perfect fit
for teen fans of superhero comics, particularly girls eager for a
realistic-looking hero.
