Macon lives in Mars (a small town) and has just been fired from "Mallmart" for mouthing off to his boss. He meets a cute punk girl, Madison, at a party later, and they are instantly attracted to each other because of their misfit tendencies. Then the mayor of the town shuts down the local comics store and confiscates Macon's artwork in a fit of book-burning fever. Macon and Madison fight back.

Instant fave of mine. A punk/comix story following two violent teens who meet, fall in love, and fight the cops to defend their comics. Super entertaining and pulpy, and as always, I'm a huge fan of Rob G's black and white illustrations.

I'm not sure whether I think this graphic novel is a good choice to give to an angry teenager in your life - or a terrible, terrible choice for an angry teenager that will give them terrible, terrible (inaccurate and melodramatic) ideas about anarchists and fighting The Man. Either way, I fear I'm not the target readership. Though I can't say I didn't enjoy the bit with the girl beating the bodily fluids out of a creeper looking up her skirt, or the adorable hippie comic shop owner, or the timel...

Possibly the most self-referential comic book (graphic novel?) I've ever read. WTF? Art and storyline = good, if you can get over the fact that it's about people who love and comic books. Also the unavoidable comic book romance, ala Tank Girl. Enjoyed it, it was a fun read. Probably will buy these guys' stuff again, but not on purpose.

Absolutely freakin' hilarious! Captures the corrupting nature of adults and the social-equality seeking of the adolescent. Stumbled on this one by chance in the school library.

Absolutely love it, shame that Rick and Rob won't ever publish the continuation.

This was... not very good. There's other stuff by Rick Spears I like a lot - Black Metal was really great, and I love Pirates of Coney Island (even though I'll probably never get to see it finished). And when I met Rick Spears @ SPX last year, he said THIS one was his "baby". And maybe that's true, but it seems like a baby he had when he was in high school who was raised by his drunk aunt and grew up to be a dull-witted crust punk who huffs natural gas right from the stove.If I had read this whe...

So this was really good. It has everything I like in one place: zombies, punks, comic books, graffiti... what's not to like? The characters were awesome and the storyline, while not original, held my interest. My main problem with the book was a few sloppy things that could have easily been changed but for some reason (it felt like laziness on the part of the writer) weren't. For instance, why is almost the only black guy in the entire book shown throwing away a stash of pornos? Why are two of t...

comic book liberation army!i didn't think i'd like this book, but i was quite surprised when i couldn't put it down! and there are cheesy parts that typically i'd find pretty stupid, but here i found endearing. what i like is there is included tidbits from comics history--like the mention of the guy from florida who has been banned since his teenage days from drawing comics. no really, this was a real case and if he were to be caught drawing comics, he'd end up in jail. at any rate, this book re...

It's exceedingly rare that an indie comic at any random convention will grab me as thoroughly as Teenagers from Mars did. I picked up a first issue, filed it away in my "would like to follow up on" mental list, and then never did. When I offhandedly saw that it had been collected, it landed on my TBR pile, but still took me nearly a decaed to track down.I'm not disappointed by it, though after ten years of self-hype, I'm not sure what I could have possibly expected. I love the art, the story is

Turns out, teenagers from Mars are just like teenagers from Jupiterand Neptune - Spoiled, bored, and not big fans of adults OR working for a living. I'm guessing the author meant this to be a profound statement on censorship, but it comes off as a bland exposition of teenage rebellion. I laughed once when I saw the Mayor's taint.(And no, I've never used that line in a review before.)

I've read some very compelling, interesting, thought provoking comics in my day. This is absolutely not one of them

Nothing genre breaking here, but I found this to be a fun, but dark, and highly engaging read. I liked this book’s attitude and tone. It reminded me a lot of my teen years, although mine were in the 80’s not the early 2000’s, but this graphic novel has that timeless rebellious attitude that calls to mind great anti-establishment texts of the 50’s and 60’s. The plot blends perfectly concerns about freedom of the press and fear of conglomerate corporations through the lenses of comic book art an...

Gorgeously illustrated and a ton of fun. Apologies to the Hamilton MT public library, from which I stole my copy 12 years ago

If you asked an eleven-year-old comic-book geek full of admiration for his older punk-rock brother what a really "cool" teenager does and looks like, he might say: "He'd be like my brother, but even cooler and tougher. He'd always get into fights, and he'd throw rocks at Walmart for not carrying my favorite comic book, and he'd defend comic books against my teacher who always says mean things about them. Oh, and he'd have a girlfriend who is cute and kicks ass, of course." If you then took this

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After picking up the single issues during my comic collecting days in college, I recently grabbed a used copy of the trade. I saw it sitting on my pile of "to read" books this morning and thought back to how awesome it was and decided to give it another read.This was a book that was one of the first I can remember reading that was outside of the mainstream. At the time, I was reading a bunch of Marvel, a little DC, and a smidgen of Vertigo and Dark Horse. Outside of this, though, I read very lit...

Teenagers from Mars enters a strange meta world. In the city of Mars comic books are reviled by adults and loved by the youth, who act in direct rebellious opposition. The main character is a young comic artist, who falls for a girl and in order to empress her performs an act of vandalism, which quickly spirals out of control. The book isn't meant to be real life and it certainly riffs off real situations (the comic book scare of the fifties with its panicked parents and burning of books), but i...

Just finished reading another graphic novel. Took about 2 hours to read, which seems about right. Rushed through the ending a little bit as I had to pee, but whatever. My ex-girlfriend when she was still my girlfriend lent it to me as it is her favorite book. I can see why, as the heroine shares more than an uncanny resemblance to her, at least as far as looks go anyway.It was very funny, very touching. The artwork was amazing and the whole book was extremely cinematic, especially all the “sound...

I picked this up on a recommendation at the Comix shop on Divisadero in SF. I leafed through the first few pages and was intrigued enough to take it home. Couldn't put it down that night. About bout a couple of kids in the town of Mars who start the "Comic Book Liberation Army", it is light on everything, including plot and dialogue, and maybe a bit cliche, but is a hell of a lot of fun to read. I could swear that the heroine is based on a girl I used to date. But as the authors aren't from Cali...