I'd recommend buying the individual books instead of the one-volume version, because the one-volume version has smaller pages and the art is better in the original size.)

Thanks Jess, good advice. His Tintins were also bound in volumes and my nephew did prefer looking at mine (but mine are in French so that was a bit problematic).

Heh. There was an article in the Times the other day - apprarently that is precisely the effect of the anti-teen-smoking ad blitzes. Though they did not mention alligators.

I don't know about teenagers, but those The Truth ads make me want to START smoking because they are so sanctimonious.

And looking at the series at Amazon, I guess I now know where E's pseud comes from!

They make me want to inject the mouthy teens in the ads with tobacco so they'll start smoking and get lung cancer.

Scholastic is also putting out a full-color version of Bone. They've only put out the first few volumes so far, though.

See Amych's point above, Megan -- I'd forgotten that the current individual editions out now are colorized (the original series was done in black & white).

A lecture or ad on the devil tobacco? Being stuck in a non-smoking environment (like an airport?) Want. Now.

This one makes me sorry I've ever looked at a cigarette.

There was an article in the Times the other day - apprarently that is precisely the effect of the anti-teen-smoking ad blitzes.

Admittedly I am a punkass little shit, and anyone earnestly telling me to do anything usually will provoke in me a desire to do the opposite.

But when I get over that initial reaction, I still feel like most anti-drug campaigns are just so... unctuous, deliberately misleading, and just plain lame that I want to stand outside their studio swigging a bottle of tequila, chain-smoking Marlboros, rolling joints, and wearing an "I Run A Meth Lab, Ask Me How!" T-shirt. With my pimp.

There was an article in the Times the other day - apprarently that is precisely the effect of the anti-teen-smoking ad blitzes.

All I could think of when I read that article was that subplot in Thank You For Smoking (book, not movie) -- the ad they [they = the tabacco lobby group] commissioned ended up with the tagline "Everything your parents told you about smoking is right."

But when I get over that initial reaction, I still feel like most anti-drug campaigns are just so... unctuous, deliberately misleading, and just plain lame

YES!

The only one I've ever liked is the kid who talks about how he used to think his big brother could do anything but now bro just lives in his parents basement and gets stoned. I appreciated that ad.

Of course, the best anti-drug campaign ever is The Osbornes.