>Experience the Pepsi-fueled misadventures of Bleu L. Finnegan, comics’ favorite blue-haired, Buster Keaton-obsessed, Adam Ant-worshipping teenager from the very beginning! Featuring an introduction from Kieron Gillen (THE WICKED + THE DIVINE), learn why this highly influential and critically-acclaimed comedy series has often been compared to the comics work of Rumiko Takahashi and the John Hughes/Molly Ringwald film collaborations of the 1980s. Here's the first collected volume of Blue Monday, The Kids Are Alright
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>>152039583Fuck that trashShould be illegal Fuck off and die
All this time I thought that Scott Pilgrim was Scott Pilgrim for women.
I remember liking this book so much after a storytime that I bought physical copies of the series, but now I can't remember anything about it
>>152039583>learn why this highly influential and critically-acclaimed comedy series has often been compared to the comics work of Rumiko Takahashi and the John Hughes/Molly Ringwald film collaborations of the 1980sBig words. Here's a bump, I'll be checking this out later.
And that concludes the Blue Monday Vol. 1: The Kids AlrightThanks for bumping
Clover is best girl
>>152039608I am already regretting
>>152039654Was this page done by Adam Warren?
>>152041224YepIt was originally a cover
>>152039583>has often been compared to the comics work of Rumiko Takahashian early example of 'some people' before it spread to wikipedia as a valid.the only reason her name is even mentioned was just to try to get this sold in the same places Ranma 1/2 was, as all of her stuff was getting published in English anthologies at once.Its an ok comic, but its way more in touch with Archie and other western stuff than anything remotely japanese.
>>152039583Didn't think anyone else on this board read any of these.Bump OP
No thank you.
What if My Life Me said fuck
How about the other volumes?
>>152042346First time reading and yeah, that's the vibe I'm getting. The redone colour job cannot disguise it as a product of the '00s. Also Jesus, two pages of appearances and the Irish girl has already dropped>feck>arse>gobshite
>>152042774I wasn't complainingI genuinely like the idea of "What if My Life Me had better art and aired on Adult Swim"
>>152043082Me neither really, some of the dialogue aside (wordswordswords speech bubbles that could have been cut down to a couple of sentences, there are editors listed, did they actually do anything?) it's not terrible. I'm actually quite enjoying the daft boys and girls banter and rivalry from a time before culture wars made shit like that srs bsns.
>>152042379I'll do them when I have timeThey're fairly short storytimes relatively speaking to other books I've done and series' I've marathonVolume 2 should be tomorrow and I'll be busy on Friday
>>152039583>this highly influential and critically-acclaimed comedy seriesFunny, both of those things imply we'd already know about it
>>152043725It's talking strictly within the indie/small-publisher comics scene (or well, non-cape comics scene in general post industry crash)You have zero idea how many critical darlings or cult favorites became even more obscure as the years passed by
>>152043738I believe that's the point I was trying to makeIt's like claiming Snotgirl was hugely influential because it existed
>>152043761It's more comparable to Battle Chasers being influential but is largely obscure nowadays even to people who read comics (except Battle Chasers influenced stuff outside of comics, it's where Jak & Daxter got its artstyle for example)
>>152043812>HIGHLY influential
>>152043830Yeah, within its niche (comics)Gillen himself in the introduction explains it>I've never read Archie, but I imagine if I did, I'd say something like "Blue Monday is Archie if Archie was honest about teenagers being fuckmoneys, but still treating it with the John Hughes movie clear enchantment and romance." That sounds credible. Blue Monday, conversely, is incredible. It pops. It fizzes. It is the absolute definitive early-00s oni book which gave birth to a big chunk of ‘00s indie comics culture. Scott Pilgrim was pitched as "Blue Monday meets Dragon Ball Z". Hell, Phonogram was pitched as "Blue Monday meets Hellblazer." It's the missing link. So many people read this, recognized themselves and gave us permission to write about people like us. It is so human and funny and light that I feel terrible putting the awful mantle of "Importance" on its shoulders, but there it is.https://www.comicsbookcase.com/quarantine-reading-list-i/blue-monday-vol-2-absolute-beginnersComics like Scott Pilgrim owe themselves to Blue Monday paving the way
>>152040109>point made about how big Clover's tits are>>152040221>gets mistaken for a boywut
>>152043859Probably the accent
>>152043858>Blue Monday is Archie if Archie was honest about teenagers being fuckmoneysI tend not to read introductions before I've read something for the first time, lest they colour my judgement, but having just finished the storytime itt that fels pretty on the money. Even the art feels like a cross between Archie and OEL manga styles.
>>152043812That reminds me of another comic. It was called telos or telus something
>>152044125Tellos
>>152044111Funnily enough Sabrina did it for a while
>>152044225I fapped to those
>>152040091Okay I can honestly totally get why someone would call him a faghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toxhb6m4vKo
>>152039583Please don't be a femboy please don't be a femboy
>>152044260I hope this comic is not your very first exposure to Adam Ant or if it is, that you're literally 12. Guy's a fucking legend.
>>152041037Its kind of jarring looking back when Archie was considered tame and vanilla considering the franchise went meta era and has done legit horror, comic crossovers with Clerks, and the insanity that is Riverdale
>>152044306I'm 26
>>152043912And the hair.
>>152039583Chyna drew a comic?
>>152044306ANT FANTHERE'S NO NEED TO FEEL DOWN
I remember picking thisbup asbit was coming out. Kinda surprised it never took off more like Scott Pilgrim did. I thought it was just as good.
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>>152039608Bros...I wanna rim him so bad...
>>152039844>>152039857Number 15 burger king foot lettuceDid the brunette enjoy the pubes like a freak or did they just not put that in her burger?
>>152045897The cook specifically put pubes in her burger >>152039833 so it's the former.
>>152045065>Kinda surprised it never took off more like Scott Pilgrim did.I think it's becauseA. Scott Pilgrim actually finished its storyB. Scott Pilgrim more or less and unintentionally was a sum of its contemporaries (compare it to what else Oni was releasing at the time like Hopeless Savages and Sharknife) leading to it having more widespread appeal. C. The movie and game gave it more staying power regardless if the former underperformed
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>>152040078>>152040143>It used to be accepted, even expected, that comic artists would draw sexy teenage girls in their underwearWe used to be a proper country.
>>152044306NTA but even in the 80s Adam Ant and a bunch of other New Wave acts were considered fags by a great deal of the public.>but they got chicksI'm sure they did, but if you prance around in long hair and makeup, people are going to think you're a fag.
>>152048388Not really my point, Anon. I was just surprised if that Anon really hadn't heard of Adam Ant before, not taking issue with the fact he thought he looked like a fag. He definitely isn't though, by all accounts he got mad pussy.
>>152042379Vol. 2 here>>152048703>>152048703>>152048703
>>152039624Sneedcrying is not an option
>>152039857You ever been so mad your ancestors took over?
>>152044306Guy's a legend in the UK. He's basically a blip over here. Unless you're big into guitars or Minneapolis Sound (and there's overlap), you're likely to confuse him with that one Hanna Barbers cartoon.
>>152048740Thanks
>>152044139Did it ever get an ending?I know the artist died
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>>152039671One page in and I hate it so so muchFuck
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>>152039583I found Volume 2 of Blue Monday in a bargain bin three months ago, figured it was completely forgotten when I went digging and found barely anything. Always lucky to see one anon remember, but it’s scary to imagine how many of the series were completely lost in the sands of a pre-2005 internet. Way worse for webcomics, I was scrubbing the Internet Archive and Keenspot last year and there amount of forgotten manga-inspired webcomics out there is literally in the thousands
>>152054723>but it’s scary to imagine how many of the series were completely lost in the sands of a pre-2005 internet.It's actually sort of interesting (at least to me) comparing the reactions to when this got storytimed back in 2013 to today Blue Monday's in the category of a darling series now niche even among comic readers like many of its contemporaries that aren't Scott Pilgrim but the fact that it got scanned and at least most of it re-released puts it in a better positionThe 2000's is this time period for forgotten comics fresh out of the crash with a lot of stuff still not scanned yet.>Way worse for webcomics, I was scrubbing the Internet Archive and Keenspot last year The worst thing to happen to online media preservation was people saying "What goes on the internet stays on the internet" which on paper meant well as a warning for kids not to do anything stupid (unfortunately it didn't work)
>>152054859Apparently, the author is still trying to complete the next volume.
>>152055175It got a single issue released in 2009 before going on hiatus and then Image started re-releasing the series in color in anticipation for the series' return but only got up to Volume 3 Her own site has a page saying more Blue Monday is on the way but it's been saying that since 2022
>>152055175>>152055214this is like a 15-20 year hiatusis there any reasonable chance she is trying wrap up anything?
>>152055175Well good luck to them I guess
>>152056259I mean she's repeatedly shown she hasn't fully abandoned itIn 2024 she released an art print of BleuI saw an Anon speculate in one of the older storytime threads say it's taking so long because she got busy with other work as well as raising a kid
>>152056416>she got busy with other work as well as raising a kidgee wiz you cant illustrate 24 pages a month AND raise a baby?! fucking women
>>152056483She had other comics to write and draw and became an editor at DC for a whileProbably paid better as well kind of like why Battle Chasers enters long hiatus' because Joe Mad got busy doing video game magazine covers or vidya itself
I wish /co/ storytimed good comics instead.
>>152057291Like?
>>152057291>I wish /co/ storytimed good comics>no, I'm not going to do it>someone else should instinctively know what I consider a good comic and sit here for hours doing hundreds of captchas posting it for me
Wouldn't it be cool if all the storytime threads were up at once
>>152057654No, then there'd be too much clutter on the catalogLate readers can just read the old threads as they're still archived or just off of Desuarchive
>>152039583I can barely stomach chapter 1-3's artstyle. Chapter 4 is tolerable to me but it's got a consistency problem with the art style. Like it's drawing from 3 very different artists
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Good thread, OP. Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one that gave a shit about this series, but there are others out there.
>>152039583should I expect something like Serenity?
