The art is the best part of this book. It relies on the absurd premise that Dayoung, a teenage rocket cop from a dystopian version of 2014, must travel back in time to 1986 to stop her future from ever happening. She arrives in the past, disrupts a scientific experiment, tries to arrest ne'er do-wells and generally causes hi-jinks to ensue.

It's never entirely clear how she's going to stop her future from happening or why she's sent on a solo mission into the past for something so important to the future of the world. She's also annoying in a teenage way that undermines her mission more than once.

There's clearly some kind of complicated conspiracy behind everything going on, but the writers save that full reveal for the second volume of this series, which hopefully wraps up the story.

I may pick up the second volume just to find out what happens next, but this series didn't really grab me.

Got to give it to Amy Reeder, she can draw a 15’s emotions so well. I loved the art in this book. She gave characters nuisanced emotions. I don’t see that as often as I’d like within comics. The story wasn’t bad. I just wasn’t as hooked with it as I was with the art.

In the distant future of 2013, the world is run by a massive heartless megacorp, Quintum Mechanics. Also teenagers compose the entire police force, that doesn’t get explained well, something to do with corporate security having all the real authority and the police being glorified hall monitors…But anyhow rocket powered Detective Dayong Johansson is investigating the the board of QM for non-specific seediness related to their super-science and finds herself in the present day of 1986 when QM is just a start-up working out of a university lab. Rocket chases and colourful casts ensue.

The plot is scatter-shot and hard to follow even by the standards of time-travel fiction, I’m still puzzling out some stuff that happened in issue 5. But what really works is the cast, they’re a well-drawn, eccentric and always engaging, I just wish there was more direction from all of them. The present day grad students are introduced as babysitters to a burgeoning superhero Dayong, but that falls by the wayside fairly fast as they become set of talking heads endlessly asking if they should do something about all the madness around them.

The art is wonderful and dynamic and i could stare at some of the chase sequences for hours, there’s an excellent shift in colour palette between the 80’s and the future that at least the reader know when things are if not actually why.

Verdict: Try it. This is a bumpy start to something I sincerely hope improves over the next few issues.