Read and Buried

The NYTPD sent her to 1986 New York City to investigate the Quintum Mechanics megacorporation for Crimes Against Time. Piecing together the clues, Dayoung Johansson discovers the "Future" she calls home--a
high-tech alternate reality version of 2013--shouldn't exist at all!

I really wanted to like Rocket Girl. A teenage police officer comes back from her glossy high-tech dystopian 2013 to investigate a company for committing CRIMES AGAINST TIME, which somehow involves crashing a student project? And solving regular crime with her rocket pack?

I'll be honest, I read the entire thing and I have no idea what the hell was going on in Rocket Girl. I understood tiny snippets of the plot, but nothing that I could actually put together into a narrative. The art is cool, I love the colours, but I don't get it. Not even in a "This is too weird for me" way, literally in a "I think I missed a chapter somewhere that explained the plot" way. I'm going to find someone to explain it to me like I'm five, and then maybe I'll come back and be able to give it a more thorough review.

Originally posted at ladybusiness.