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Blue Monday, Vol. 1: The Kids Are Alright

di Chynna Clugston-Flores

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Serie: Blue Monday (1)

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Being a teenager can be a difficult job, something the adult world cannever understand. While to her parents and teachers getting Adam Ant tickets isno big deal, to Bleu L. Finnegan it means everything. This could be the definingmoment of her life, and there is no guarantee that she will ever acheive it. Onthe way, Bleu must deal with the travails of adolescence - from prank-playing,porn-addicted boys to sexist-pig radio disc jockeys to trying to figure out howto show that dreamy substitute teacher that she's his perfect mate. It allculminates on that fateful night when Bleu and her best friend, Clover, go tothe club and try to get in at any cost! Nothing will bar Bleu from the pop idolof her dreams!… (altro)
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Not rating as I DNF'd at about a third of the way in purely on subjective enjoyment.

Music and movie obsessed anglophile teen, Bleu, is too cool for school and the fools she's stuck with. Hijinks and hyperfixations abound.

I love this in theory and there was a huge element of this being me, though I was more vacillating between incredibly cringe white middle class English kid in Wu Wear, a serious Juggalo phase, and everybody's favourite pretentious black and white thinking 16 year old punk. I'm frustrated because the me I was then would have hated this for not being 'pure' to punk or some other bullshit those who have no sense of self so they become entirely evangelical and puritanical about whatever they're into. But now, it's just a bit too juvenile and doesn't grab me enough - these are absolutely me problems subjective taste, no shade here.

A version of me that had the opportunity to be honest about who I really am at that time would have absolutely loved it. And I love that for her.

It's really cute and I just want to like it more than I actually do.

Also, people (in comfortable, safe situations) outside of the UK romanticising it is genuinely hilarious to me. Section 28 was still very much a thing in the time that this was set, so Queer and trans didn't exist for whole generation of us growing up. We existed, but through repression and silence. Thankfully, now we acknowledge we exist. Careful what you wish for, as now they want us exterminated. I think people forget that just because we didn't have Lineham and Rowling doing high profile hatred, this place has always been ultra conservative and hateful. Hell, the only ostensibly leftwing government we had is the one who lied to commit ear war crimes in Iraq!

Ah yes, the classic neurodivergent 'not actually a review just a rant'
  RatGrrrl | Dec 20, 2023 |
Weer een reeks e-strips uit de Humble Bundle Leading Ladies met dit keer de titel Blue Monday. Een titel die zowel slaat op een van de hoofdfiguren namelijk Blue (ook wel te herkennen aan haar haarkleur) als op de tijd van leven waarin deze strip zich afspeelt namelijk op de middelbare school.

Nu heb ik heel lang dit soort verhalen leuk gevonden maar wellicht dat ik als vijftiger dit nu wel zo'n beetje gezien heb. De eerste verhalen zat ik dan ook meer verplicht te lezen dan dat ik het echt leuk vond. Al die verliefdheden, al dat onderling gepest, het gedoe tussen de seksen, het zal wel, dacht ik.

Maar opeens kwamen er ook wat mythische of ook wel fantastische elementen bij kijken die het heel grappig maakte. Ook ging ik steeds meer de muzieknummers die bij de avonturen staan afgedrukt herkennen als de muziek uit mijn eigen tienerjaren, de jaren tachtig.

Daarbij komt ook dat de vriendengroep die gevolgd wordt in Blue Monday niet de populairen op school zijn, eerder een beetje afwijkend maar ook weer niet heel extreem. Ik voel me er wel thuis bij.

Ik kan me heel goed voorstellen dat als mensen van die leeftijd zijn en dit lezen zich heel erg begrepen voelen. Het is dan wel een Amerikaanse omgeving maar ik denk dat veel westerse kinderen dezelfde ontwikkeling op de middelbare school meemaken.

De tekenstijl heeft iets van manga maar dan met meer details en kleur, heel veel kleur. Vooral emoties zijn zeer expliciet uitgedrukt wat ik zelf wel heel grappig vind om naar te kijken. Het maakt de situatie nog in leefbaarder.

Leuk om kennis mee gemaakt te hebben maar ik hoef er niet nog meer van te lezen. Drie delen zijn wel genoeg. ( )
  Niekchen | Apr 29, 2023 |
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. ( )
  cargocontainer | Nov 2, 2011 |
Book one in the Blue Monday series.

Bleu Finnegan is obsessed with Adam Ant. When she hears that he will be performing in the city, she vows to do whatever it takes to win tickets. In the meantime, she and her friends play some nasty pranks on each other and Blue crushes on a hip substitute teacher. Will Blue succeed in meeting her idol or will all her efforts come to nothing after all?

Recommended for mature readers. ( )
  mrsdwilliams | Oct 23, 2009 |
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This modern-day Archie for teens accurately captures what it’s like to be an adolescent. The boys are boys, and the girls don’t take their crap. Like Adam Ant’s pop songs, the stories deal with sex in a playful way. Beyond the sexual, they show all aspects of teenage desire, when you’re young enough to really love pop stars with an obsession that’s boundless and when you think you’ll die from embarrassment when you do something silly without thinking.
 

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Nome dell'autoreRuoloTipo di autoreOpera?Stato
Clugston-Flores, Chynnaautore primariotutte le edizioniconfermato
Gillen, KieronIntroduzioneautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato

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Being a teenager can be a difficult job, something the adult world cannever understand. While to her parents and teachers getting Adam Ant tickets isno big deal, to Bleu L. Finnegan it means everything. This could be the definingmoment of her life, and there is no guarantee that she will ever acheive it. Onthe way, Bleu must deal with the travails of adolescence - from prank-playing,porn-addicted boys to sexist-pig radio disc jockeys to trying to figure out howto show that dreamy substitute teacher that she's his perfect mate. It allculminates on that fateful night when Bleu and her best friend, Clover, go tothe club and try to get in at any cost! Nothing will bar Bleu from the pop idolof her dreams!

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