That is a hard choice.
Mainly,
1- Watchmen: I know that every fan raves and raves about how good it is, well I would say it doesn’t deserve it’s legendary hype that it has around it. Interesting spin on a world with superheroes that have no super powers and alternate history. Reccomended.
12 Issues, collected in TPB.
2- Astro City: I’ll admit, some of the concepts are a blatant rip off of other superheroes, but this series explore superheroes with more realism; Well, as realistic as you get get when the hero’s jumping around in purple tights and beating up elemental based villians.
Astro City: 6 issue mini series 1-??? Regular series(Don’t know what it got up to, think it got discontinued then brought back) All collected in TPBs
3-Marvels Now, this deserves the hype that Watchmen has. It’s ultra realistic*, told from the perspictive of photographer Phil Sheldon, who witnesses the coming of the ‘marvels’(superheroes) throughout his life. Reccomended.
4 issues, excellently painted by Alex Ross. Avoid the sequel!
*See previous sentence.
Ah. I am too… I’ve recently become extremely interested in foreign relations and such (and yes, by recently I mean pre-9/11 and pre-Iraq war part 2), but most of my friends who are well versed in the subject, are insomniacs, which works for me, but it means sitting here at 2:30 am wrapped in a blanket staring blankly at the computer screen while reading about Syria.
I have to admit I haven’t heard of any of those. The closest is Marvel, I used to read Marvel comics when I was younger. Superman, Batman, the rest. Superwoman My brother used to pretend he was Superman, and fly around the house wearing a cape. :wally
I gotta question related to this. If you did go to an adult with a problem, or a “question about Life” kind of concern, would you appreciate it if they started telling an anecdote about their own self? Or would you rather they just listen to you and stop projecting their own experience onto yours?
Another question: You’re kind of old for this now, but have you, or any of your friends, ever stuck your head out of the school-bus window to trash-talk someone in another vehicle, or a pedestrian? If so, how did they respond? (Guys in my school did this for a while, until the driver announced that anyone who got threatened with an ass-kicking would be put off the bus by him and left to his own fate.)
As someone else already said, it’s fear of rejection. Don’t teens these days know the proper procedure? It’s predicated on the idea that everyone has a best friend. If you’re sweet on someone and want to know how that person feels about you, you have your best friend ask the other person’s best friend. I love the phrasing of these inquiries: “Does she like me like me or LIKE me like me?”
Though these days, I wouldn’t know how to interpret the answer: “Well, she’d go down on you, but she wouldn’t swallow.”
LOL@“Well, she’d go down on you, but she wouldn’t swallow.” as a female teen, I should probably object to that, but… just kidding. It depends on the teen, the situation, blah blah blah. Sometimes, at least with my experience, one is afraid that their friend likes the girl too, and will insert themself into the situation in a non-relationship friendly way. That’s happened to me before (only with a guy, of course). The social scene at most high schools is scarily dramatic, which is why I opted out. The drama, in it’s various forms, makes asking a girl out quite complicated. You have to worry about tons and tons of things. I’ve never really had a problem, but I’m not shy, and I don’t really obsess over what others think, so I just go for it.
I would rather hear anedote, because that shows they know what the person is experincing. It makes them sound more knowledgable(which hopefully they are) about the subject, not like they’re just ad libbing it or something.
Actually, I’ve never been on a school bus other than for field trips, where even if people were trash talking it wasn’t likely that they were gonna ditch someone on the road. I believe that any school buses relatively near to me were out of me catchment(sp?) area, which is the amount of distance that’s allowed for you to be able eligible for things like school buses.
I’ve never gone to school on public transit either.
I guess.
I’ve missed the last 2 days of school, and I missed meeting up with some other B.C. dopers because I was too sick because what I had was likely contagous.
Blagh. I’ve been sort of fighting a head ache- clamp on my brain sort of thing, but I think it’s just because I’ve been stressed. I always hated missing school, because teachers were always looked at me like I’d skipped or something, even if it was excused. I hope your teachers are nicer.
Cool.
Warning: If you read Watchmen, there is a little graphic content. Nothing really bad, though.
The thing with the people at my school, either they don’t remember me calling and they send a message saying “your child was away for one or more blocks”, basically a message for skipping, or they don’t tell my teachers, which they are supposed to.
Yeah they do that here too, it’s quite silly- when I went to sign out to start homeschooling, they had 40 “unexcused” absences! 40! I’ve never skipped, and every single one of my absences had been excused and they knew it, somehow it just didn’t get into the computer. So now I have that on my record, because they aren’t allowed to change it after 3 days of the occurence. ??!!!
Well, since you like anecdotes, here’s one from my youth. When I was in grade 11, the same scene played out at the bus stop every day for the first week. The middle school bus would trundle past while we were waiting, and pause at the stop sign long enough for a window to be lowered and a shrill voice to declare, “Ya suck, Copeland!!”
Copeland would growl a rejoinder such as “Yeah, study hard, Lawrence!..Get stuffed, Lawrence!..Eat me, Lawrence!” Presumably, during the first weekend, Copeland and Lawrence settled their differences, but in the meantime, I was highly amused.
My brother used to pretend he was Superman, and fly around the house wearing a cape. :wally