If you read comics, and you’re not already, buy Fallen Angel! I realize it’s not going to match everyone’s tastes perfectly, but I think you owe it to yourselves to at least take a look at it.

I’m trying to come up with other ways of promoting this book (let’s face it, if my readership went much lower, it’d be negative), but the only thing I’ve come up with is telling the owner of my local comic shop (hereafter known as The Comic Book Lady, or Cheryl, depending on my mood) to order a few extra copies for me, and then, after I pay for them, have her give them to people whose fancies it might tickle.

I just dropped several books that I don’t like (namely, the Superman and X-men books), so I’ve got a bit extra in my budget for silly things like that. Also, I’m sick and tired of well written things (Firefly, for example… and I’m still bitter over Aquaman and Supergirl) being cancelled while crap (like Survivor and any X book) are created ad nauseum.

Anyone have any other suggestions on ways that I can help save this book??
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I think that Principal Giles is underestimating students in saying that “Kids will be kids” here. I don’t know the students in question, obviously, but I think it’s something more than just a “we’ll show you” thing. It’s a fight for freedom.

Sure, it’s a silly freedom, the right to wear the same color shirt as your buddy Jim, but it’s still a freedom. I understand the basic fear of the principal, but let’s get something straight. If a group of kids want to identify themselves as part of a group, and you ban the color of their shirts, they’ll find some other way to do it.

It seems to me that the proper response isn’t to try to curb the gang markings — that’s a fight that accomplishes nothing. Instead, find other ways to spend time, either reaching out to the students who join gangs and trying to encourage them to non-violent solutions to their issues, or wait until their actions seriously break rules and give them a good kick to the head… literally. (You can’t punish them for simply saying they’re in a gang, unless they’ve done something a bit more. We have a right to assemble, after all.)

Every time I see an issue like this arise, it annoys me, because it makes even less sense than trying to ban guns. I’ll give you 100-to-1 odds that you can find no more than three instances of t-shirts killing people… or attacking them… or even being really demeaning on their own. (No, the “It’s all relative in West Virginia” shirts don’t count.)

Are politicians afraid to look at real solutions? Is this half-hearted attempt to hit the most visible symptoms of the problem a racial trait?
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