How the 'Paper Girls' Cast Compares to the Beloved Comic

Amazon Prime Video knows how to make a good adaptation. Just look at The Boys, which was first released as a comic series and is now one of Prime Video's biggest shows to date. Or, Invincible, which also began as a comic and proved to everyone that Prime Video's expertise wasn't limited to live-action, but animated shows too. So adapting the wildly popular Paper Girls into a live-action series makes sense for the streaming service.

Written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Cliff Chiang, Paper Girls ran from 2015 to 2019. Over the course of 30 issues, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls–Mac, KJ, Tiffany, and Erin–accidentally time travel into the future and become embroiled in a complex time war. The science-fiction series touches on friendship, growing up, and reckoning with one's past, present, and future.

Part of the challenge of an adaptation, though, isn't just moving the story from one medium to another, but ensuring the show has the same tone and style of the medium the original story came from, like how The Umbrella Academy keeps many of the comic's plot points and zany characters while making concessions where it has to (in the television show, the group doesn't have a notable battle from the comics involving the Eiffel Tower, an adaptive feat the show's creator says "would cost the entire show budget." Paper Girls will surely have to make some of those same kinds of sci-fi concessions, but we'll have to see if the show can satisfy both fans of the comic along with newcomers to the material.

So how do the characters in the Paper Girls television show stack up to the Paper Girls comics? Here's how the actresses and comic book characters compare, plus any notable differences between their show appearance and their comic book portrayal.