Amazon greenlights show based on Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's Paper Girls

Amazon is formally getting into the Brian K. Vaughan business, with the streamer/online delivery company/all-consuming retail giant announcing this morning that it’s picked up a TV adaptation of Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s Image Comics series Paper Girls. Centered on a group of the titular tweens, whose efforts to pick up cash slinging newspapers in 1980s Ohio ends up crashing headlong into a bizarre battle between time travelers, the series isn’t not like Netflix’s Stranger Things, in case you were looking for a reference point. (To be fair, though, Vaughan and Chiang have a lot more on their minds than reminding everybody about how cool it was to go see Day Of The Dead at the mall.) If you want a more evocative pop culture analog, our own Caitlin Rosberg once called it “Goonies plus Now And Then trapped in H.G. Wells’ nightmares.”