Boys Be… 11
February 2, 2008
I’m still not terribly impressed with the short stories. There were two in this volume I kinda liked, though.
The first one was just sort of silly. I hated that the setup was wasted on a series of t&a shots, but every other panel in this series is of a cute girl, so I’m pretty used to it by now. Basically, the couple realizes that they dress lame, and they see a cool-looking couple and decide to mimic their style. They go out and purchase new jeans, but the cool-looking couple had worn and torn jeans. The female in the primary couple suggests stone washing, which she heard Americans do with new pairs of jeans in the Mississippi River. Then the chapter degenerates into the boy wetting the girl down, rubbing pumice on her jeans while she’s still wearing them, and cutting holes in them for her. You can imagine how that goes.
The second story I liked wasn’t actually that good, but I liked that the boy in it was adamantly opposed to PDA or any sort of half-ass love. True love is a private and intense matter between two individuals. He wishes on a falling star for a girlfriend, and a “fallen angel” comes to try and help him out. Things don’t go well from there (there’s kind of a halfhearted plot where the main character has to avoid the advances of his best friend’s cheating girlfriend), but since the chapter is called “Boys Be… Justice” and the chapter numbering starts over, I suspect there will be at least a few more stories with this character in it.
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