Anti-Twilight

[EveningChin]

Ok, I know alot of people are huge Twilight fans. I am not, I read all the books, still not a fan. (I worked at a coal mine last summer and they were the only thing between me and sleeping an a 360 cat truck going 40mph) I have found someone who feels the same way and has summed it up to a tee for me. So for your reading pleasure, Shinga's (aka Amanda Bussel) rendition of Twilight and her comics.


Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13


If this is in the wrong section. I am very sorry please move it.

I am not trying to be argumentitive but I just think there should be a place to discuss the converse of "Twilight rock!". Let the fun begin! illowfight:

Edit: Shinga/Amanda Bussell is amazingly talented and does much more then just anti - Twilight stuff. She is a genious and hilarious!

 

[Raela]

That was funny, and I loved it.
The thing I don't get about Twilight (have not read books or seen movie and don't plan on it) is what is a vampire doing hanging out at high school. I mean the guy lives forever and has lived already a long long time, why would you piss away your days in high school? You couldn't pay me to go back to high school, especially if I was a vampire.

 

[EveningChin]

Well I think it was to give the Vampires a link to the human world. Its supposed to be them "flying under the radar" as it were. It was weird to me too. Lets go to high school to pretend to be part of their world but we will socialize with no one cause that says to the world we are normal. Ha!

Seventeen forever? I will pass. I would go back to high school but I think only Bill Gates can afford what I would charge.

 

[Laurie]

It's not that I'm anti-Twilight, I just prefer my vampires grown up. I like a big alpha vampire such as The Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J R Ward or The Midnight Breed series by Lara Adrian. If I'm going for tv--definitely Mick St. John from the defunct Moonlight.

I understand teenagers need love too but when I was 13 I was reading historical romances that had more than chaste kisses.

 

[Raela]

It's not that I'm anti-Twilight, I just prefer my vampires grown up. I like a big alpha vampire such as The Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J R Ward or The Midnight Breed series by Lara Adrian.

I agree I want my vampires to grab me push me up against a wall and bite me whether I like it or not tee hee. Not these little wimpy teenage whiny vamps.

 

[tunes]

Um.....family friendly forum? As in, children read this site so probably the comments about rape, spine breaking during birth, and so on are inappropriate?

Sorry guys - I'm a twilight fan. :neener: One of my sons is now reading it (he's 14) and even he told me yesterday "Mom, these books aren't half bad if you can get past the mushy stuff." Let's face it, these books were geared towards teens, they just happened to fall into adult hands. I sure as heck wouldn't want my daughter reading BDB - the sex is sooooo explicit - or Anne Rice, who is just weird as heck. So this is a nice, clean, semi-chaste way for them to get their own little vampire experience.

 

[Riven]

It's exactly what it's supposed to be, a darkish tale of forbidden love. Love does not have to be ravaging sex every chapter. I'm not a big fan of most "romance novel" type stuff, because it's like fairy tales for grown up's. I'm never going to loose my shoe on the step of a palace and have a prince chase me down because I'm his long lost love, and some ripped hunky guy is not going to sweep me off my feet and into some romantic love scene.

Different strokes for different folks.

 

[mishellyshel]

I loved the series. The liked the movie. I think the above rendition is funny! Thanks for sharing. The books "were" written for teens and while some of it doesnt translate for me or I cant relate to it 'cause highschool was SO long ago, I think it is a great way to get teens reading! And since there is little to no mention of sex or drugs I think Stephanie Meyer set a good example for the younger crowd. I am thinking of letting me son watch it this weekend. He is only 8 but I feel it is a safe enough PG-13 movie for him.

 

[Parkerspetchins]

The author didn't intend for the books to be for tweens when she first started Twilight. I personally loved the books and cannot read what I call romance novels at all, I find them really cheesy LOL. Even though Edward is 17, he was born in 1901, he has been around a while and is no teenager LOL so I don't find it too childish for me to read. Now the writings linked here (well, OK, I read about 3 lines of the first one LOL), I found very childish LOL. To each their own is certainly right ).

 

[VolunteerChin22]

I read the first two chapters and while I liked Twilight, this was also funny. Room for both I think. Funny thing is I went to see Twilight with my husband who's army buddy told him it was really good (mind you he's thinking "really good" means gory bloody vampire movie) and half way through he was like wth????!!! omg its a chick flick!! He had some choice texts for the buddy LOL...

 

[Ash]

Don't get me wrong. I LOVE adult-style vampire stories. Anita Blake. Give me any day. Twilight, however, is such a refreshing break from all of that. Not to mention, her take on vampires IS interesting. If you read through her reasonings and stuff for the series, she never MEANT for any of these to be made public. Her sister started it all after reading them. Her version of vampires made sense to her.

 

[EveningChin]

I enjoyed her take on mythical creatures, thats why I finished all the books. I enjoyed New Moon best and I like the character of Jacob. But I barily made it though bd, I wanted to throw up. I don't find the character of Bella believe able at all. She's perfect and her only flaws are that she is clumbsy and won't believe she is perfect. Oh and she is so mature for her age? 16 going on 40? 16 going on 18, maybe. I found her rediculously sophomoric which is the opposite of what the naration says. There was no finese to the forbidden love, you were strickly bashed over the head with it over and over and if Stephanie Meyer or the editor would have cut 60 pgs out of Twilight it could have been really good. Maybe inserted some plot before the last 30 pages or so...

I can understand the draw really I can. But there was too much sappy crud wrapped around what could have been a good story. This maybe my opinion because I was reading Jane Austin books when I was 10 or 12. Elinor and Edward now there is forbidden love that teases. But too each their own. That is why I didn't run into the Twilight thread.

Sorry about the offending comic about bd. But the first one about twilight, really? Other than it being against Twilight what was offending there?

 

[tunes]

It wouldn't let me take one without the other, so I had to take both!

 

[Ash]

One thing I don't get - people complain the most about the books that actually get people reading. Then they complain about the illiteracy in America. Well if you're going to bash people for reading what they read, no wonder they're not going to read! But that's slightly OT.

 

[EveningChin]

Sad day!

 

[JennyBug]

As an English teacher, anything that will get a kid to read is good news to me. One of my student's parents made her read a book that I suggested, and it was a true story about a child soldier. I think there was a similar debate with Harry Potter, but being labeled a kids' book has never stopped me before! I still haven't seen the movie, but that is to prevent me from having an unnatural obsession with Robert Pattison more than being against the movie (I've read all the books, and passed them on to others).


I still prefer the Bela Lugosi version of Dracula more than the teenage version, though...

"I bid you... velcome..."

 

[Rebecca]

One of my student's parents made her read a book that I suggested, and it was a true story about a child soldier.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah? That book blew me away.

As for liking any book that will get children to read, I sort of understand what you are saying. My problem with that logic is that the Twilight books do not seem to inspire their readers to pick up other books. If teenagers were to pick up Twilight, enjoy it, then pick up, say, Looking for Alaska, that would be another story in my opinion.

Jennybug, what grade level do you teach?

 

[XstarX]

i loved the books, hated the movie.
Jasper Cullen is wonderful.

 

[Adhafera]

Ugh...I work at a book store, and I can't tell you how sick I am of the Twilight craze. Its rediculous! I have no desire to read the books or see the movies. Sorry!

 

[3CsMommy]

I got through 3 pages of the first one and haven't picked it up since. It's not that I don't read Kiddy Lit, b/c I do, but her writing style was a real turn off to me. I didn't like The DaVinci Code for the same reason. It read as though specifically designed for a screen play, and really wasn't a great reading experience for me. I'll take Larry McMurtry, George R.R. Martin, Tolkien, or Phillip Pullman over sparkly vampires and POed albino monks any day.