This story really didn't draw me in until the end. The go-back-to-the-past-to-change-the-future plot is a bit cliche and perhaps too vague. However, the end leaves you wondering what Dayoung will do next, and it has me curious!

I read this on a PC via Hoopla, and it seems like it would have been much easier to read in print. ( )

Time travel is super big with our teens right now, and while this isn't brand new it seemed like it could fit right in with the trend. It kind of does? It's got an interesting premise and great art, but I feel like I might like it more if I read another volume because it felt like the story was just getting juicy when it ended. (Or maybe I'll like it less? I think I'll give the next volume a try at any rate). ( )

In 2014 New York cops are all teenagers in this alternate reality. Dayoung Johansson is an officer who goes back in time to try and get to the bottom of a potential crime. But what we find out is the company she is investigating wanted her to go back in the first place. This covers the first five issues of the comic and the art is really good but there isn't enough story for me to want to continue to pick it up after this collection. The story does follow both time streams as things progress but the reader never finds out just how things got changed so much in the future.

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley ( )

A fun time-travel story with an imaginative world and some cool supporting characters. Annie is my favorite. ( )

"Times Squared" is a clever title for a clever concept. Rocket Girl is a member of a futuristic teen police force, who volunteers to go back in time to stop an evil mega-corporation from developing a particular piece of tech in 1987 (but of course, that tech is the same item that allows her to time-travel, so if it's never invented, she can't get back to her own time, and therein lies the twist on the sacrifice-and-salvation trope). She has a couple things going for her: first, a strong sense of right and wrong, and second, the skill to use the rocket pack strapped to her back. Ensuing events in 1987, if not exactly unpredictable, are at least pretty darn amusing.
All in all, it's a beautiful drawn, very satisfying little volume, and I'll be sure to pick up the next one.

Biggest plus: smart, sassy heroine who's neither a perfect goody two-shoes nor a delinquent, neither too innocent nor too jaded.

Biggest drawback: sometimes the art was just a little *too* complex (lots of creative placement of the boxes) and I lost the flow of the action ("Wait, did she just hit her head, or did someone shoot her, or...?") for a moment. Probably would be smoother on a second reading. ( )