Stranger Things made a bigger cultural splash, though this began to come out at roughly the same time. Set in 1988 with a young cast and bizarre goings-on, the comparison seems natural enough. Erin starts her first morning delivering papers in her quiet suburban community, and hooks up with three other paper-girls. Before long things start to get seriously weird, with strange figures stealing their walkie-talkies, lights in the sky, something really strange in a basement, and then, and then... things get wilder and weirder until things are completely bat-lizard boo-yaa gosh wow what the hell was that? No slow build-up King pastiche, this is zero to holy moses in two issues flat.

Writing by Vaughan is clever and sharp, the usual strong characterisations and cliffhangers and plot-twists and reversals. The art by Cliff Chiang is drop-dead gorgeous, lovely colouring too. A great cast of characters helps, as does never knowing what the heck is going to happen next.