Archie if Archie was the way kids really were (in the late eighties/mid nineties). Honestly one of my favorite comics of this genre. Ace.

If you took one part 80's nostalgia, one part britpop, and mixed it with equals parts John Hughes, you'd come up with something like Blue Monday. This is one third of what makes Chynna Clugston's take on the typical coming of age tale unique, the other part being her cartoonish/mangaish yet detailed art, and the finishing touch crowned as it being downright bizarre and raunchy 90 percent of the time. Which makes it hilarious. This first volume has some growing pains, but the characters are stron...

Stand And Deliva!This was one of those books I stumbled upon on amazon late at nite. Clicked on the preview and fangirled the shit out of this. Ooohhh Loorrrdd! Adam Fookin' Ant!!!!!Imagine having your idol in town and you tryin with all your might to win tickets. You fail... fail again and yet again fail... until Eureka its all yours. Squeal!!!You make it and they wont let you in. No no no no no!!!But some how you wind up meeting him and then getting a ride home. You have special weird luck. Sc...

I won a copy of this in a Goodreads giveaway, and I'd have to say it's the single coolest book I've obtained that way so far. It's certainly a thrill to get a package from Image Comics and know that it contains free stuff ...So I've actually read the original black and white version of The Kids Are Alright ages ago. I loved it then, so it's no surprise that I love this version. It's been colored, and bonus materials, short stories and such, have been added, but this is the same Blue Monday we al...

The most perfect series in existence.

I've read and reread this one. I can't explain why I enjoy it, but I do. It's over-emotional, coarse, and hugs a lot of clichés, but for some reason I can sympathize with the characters and enjoy their hijinks.

If I have to choose a story to make a film about it where is music and people and a naive teenager who wants to begin life... I will choose Blue Monday, 90's Britpop a naive character that somehow remind me to myself when I was 17 or so and group of characters that makes you laugh and sometimes, cry

I ended up with this series on my radar ever since Bryan Lee O'Malley mentioned Blue Monday as an influence of his (probably in the back of a Scott Pilgrim). Overall, I REALLY LIKED the main story and the short stories were pretty good too. The art was an INTERESTING fusion of eastern and western, which worked for me. Bleu's crush on Adam Ant (other artists and the substitute teacher) was HILARIOUS (oh, and the Jesus head curse - that was so weirdly funny). The only things that fell short with m...

I have to start with a disclaimer that I know the author, and while I think she's amazing, I will not let that color my review. And I'm drinking. That being said.It took me way to long to not just skim the great art Chynna has done in all of her books, but I decided to sit and read "The kids are alright" and loved it. It's rare nowadays to really get a great treatment of the real "outsider" types of kids we were or knew in school. Now that Hollwood and literature uses the theme so much you get w...

Fun

Well, I really didn't like this one.The art was somehow OK but the characters were unpleasant. I didn't like any of them. The idea of egging or throwing toilet paper on a tree as a retaliation... That's not a funny way to keep the story going.Apart from the musical references, I didn't have the feeling that we were in the early 1990s.There was a lot of text in the panels but the things that were written were... let's say very boring! And I couldn't understand why the author used such a weird spe...

A friend recommended this when I was looking for graphic novels written or drawn by women. Unfortuantely I really didn't care for it at all. It was taking the 80s troupe of high school girls and making them into Brit pop and post punk 80s music. But it was just SO suburban American and the kids were so straight laced it hurt! The first three adventures were basically rock and roll high school retold and cleaned up! The young 15 year old, doesn't drink, doesn't smoke and definitely doesn't have s...

3.5. This was put out by Image, so I figured I would enjoy it. It was definitely interesting, but has more of a teen feel than most of Image's other stuff. That said, while this has a young adult feel, and teenaged main characters - the language definitely makes this a more mature book. There's some cursing, for sure.

I’d kill for Bleu’s t-shirt collection

I guess I’m the wrong generation to appreciate the nostalgia factor to help overcome so much bad... it would have been better if it was just the girls, but i really hated their guy “friends”. I don’t like reading about gross teenage boys if that’s their only character trait — bedroom full of porn?! Lol that’s just his thing! Pube in the food prank? Aw man we really gotta get them back for this!It is nice that one guy gets decked for his creepiness at one point but for the most part, it’s just wh...

Welllll, I did not like this one much at all. To me it basically felt like Archie (which I also do not like), but way grosser. There are a lot of nasty pranks, a lot of sexual harassment, and a lot of just plain meanness here, and I didn't really end up liking any of the characters. At all. Plus, the setting really confused me. It seems they are in America (I think in California?), but they're constantly using British and Irish slang and phrasing, so I dunno. I couldn't connect with anything her...

Garbage. Complete garbage.After reading the Hopeless Savages Volume 1 series, I figured I'd give more of Clugston's work a try. And oh my gosh was that a mistake. The artwork was fine when not depicting teenage girls in their undergarments or wearing shirts that show off their balloon-breasts. But the dialog and the story... what the hell?!?First of all, I could not figure out if Victor and Alan were friends or just guys who follow the main characters around and sexually harass them. The whole

This was unpleasant.

While the story is officially set in the high-school milieu of the early 1990s, its protagonists appear to be stuck in the early 1980s for some reason. The title "Blue Monday" is an homage to the (obviously completely awesome!) New Order hit from 1983, main character Bleu is a huge fan of new wave icon Adam Ant, and the mod revival of the same period finds expression in almost everybody's wardrobe ("The Kids Are Alright" is also the title of the Who's original mid-60s mod anthem, of course).Why

This graphic novel was too realistic for me, which for some might be a selling point but I just couldn’t relate. The gist of the plot is that a teenage girl named Bleu is trying to win Adam Ant tickets off the radio. I had a twitch of nostalgia with the 80s setting - Bleu actually has to use a land line or a pay phone when she calls the radio. Bleu’s trio of girlfriends play pranks on their trio of friends who are boys. I feel like I should like it – it’s got some great girl power moments in it,...