If I Could Turn Back Time... by MrGorf
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And so, we return to the days of yesteryear with our old friends DIDI and KELLY. It's the start of a new series, hopefully long-running.
The year is 1987... Ronald Reagan is the American president. The Berlin Wall is still standing. The Cold War is still going on, although there are signs of defrosting. VCR's and CD players are still relatively high-end items. Owning a personal computer was a sure sign that you had no social life.
Plus... Somewhere, in a certain small American town, there's this vague feeling that SOMEONE, somehow, is trying to hold back the clock...
As Kelly is in middle school, I'm trying to get into the young teenaged mindset. I'm thinking that teenagers, even the best of them, have a few things in common:
1. The judgement of their peers is their top priority.
2. They have trouble distinguishing what's important from what's not.
3. They have a distorted sense of time. They toss around words like "forever" pretty casually, but cannot quite grasp that someday, they will no longer be teenagers.
4. They think that their parents' efforts to prevent them from self-destructing are entirely unnecessary.
5. They think that the solution to the world's problems are easy, and if "old" people weren't so set in their ways, things might actually get done. They come up with such gems as "everyone should stop using electricity."
Please help me out by adding to, or refuting, items on this list!
So, buckle up, sit back, and enjoy the new series! It's going to be a wild ride...
Comments (12)
DangerousThing
I like the image. However, I don't think that #1 is the most important in most teens, except on TV. Yes, it is more important to them than after they mature a bit and get to know themselves, but I would say #2 is more important. Perhaps I think that one of the defining things about high school is an overinflated sense of how everything effects them.
MrSynnerster
can't wait to read. The lighting in these pictures are amazing.
TallPockets
"Youth is WASTED on the young". GRINS. MUCH of what you listed ABOVE can be applied to WE ADULTS who have YET to have GROWN UP. WINK. WELL done work and narrative!
wliebtposer
awesome work
Faemike55
I belief it was a mix of all with various levels based on regional influences Great looking images
MKeyes
Hmmm, not to sure who they are in frame 2. or why they're even in there with Didi and Kelly, just walking by? Suppose so, as for the list, yeah - I find it pretty accurate as I've raised two daughters, one totally and completely different from the other! So I can pretty much agree that that list nailed it! Okay, bring on the new series...wink
KaiArt
Excellent work
T.Rex
Man, this series of images is almost surreal! The lack of speech bubbles really adds to the odd feeling of "What am I seeing here?". The second frame really adds to the impression. The last 2 frames are almost a "beam me up, Scotty", except it's over time, not through space. I find your list quite convincing from my own time as a teen ager in the 1960s. Keep up the good work. I find this quite interesting and am curious as to where it will lead you. :-)
Knechtruprecht
What, I am not a teenager any more? Who dares to maintain that?! grummmmmble And darn, I got my first personal computer in 1987, but my social life was good enough to avoid ending in the litter but raise a family instead! Okay, I see what you're trying to express ;-) , and your images are pretty cewl!
Rhanagaz
Excellent panels! Concerning teenagers! I work daily with both children and teens and I must say it is very difficult to generalize. It depend both on which social group they belong to as well as their individual personality - how they think and act in the world. A common trait is that their friends means a lot to them as teenagers but they CHOSE which ones to group with, unless they do not have real good close friends. Some teenagers tends to have difficulties to "fit in" to almost anything, others don't have these problems. I TV we often see these so called "prototype" teenagers but I seldom see this stereotypes in daily life. So called "misfit-teenagers" are quite another group and indeed a minority. The transition from child to adult can be experienced a bit different from culture to culture, from nation to nation. Children who have had little influence on their lives as children can try to fight harder for independence in their puberty where they have to find their more mature identity in a very short time. My professionel experience: When I see just one parent of a child/teenager then I understand the child/teenager much more... I don't know about this is helpful but this is just my reflections. Rhanagaz
kennydodge
Awesome as usual. Can't wait to see what's next.
Dreamingbee
you have a great gallery - this one i mostly like - great concept and work !