Mars is not a planet. It's a smallish rural town that is just big enough to have a thinly disguised Walmart and a comic book store. The main characters are dissatisfied with their environment, oppressive, and their lives, oppressed.
Now I don't mean to say that all teenagers are out there grave robbing and joining the CBLA (Comic Book Liberation Army), but they are definitely pissed off about most of what they see and hear. They probably won't stage a raid on City Hall and hog tie the mayor and invite horrible indignities on his person, but they might just be thinking about it.
There have been a lot of comic books out lately about teenage dissatisfaction. Most of them have been of the goth/fantasy persuasion. Teenagers From Mars is fiction to be sure, over the top and melodramatic is places, but it feels true. And the locations and situations could exist in your town. At least it feels like how I remember being a teenager. I didn't have tattoos and piercings, but I would if I were a teenager now.
Rick and Rob have nailed it here. Give them their dues. Go out and buy a copy of Teenagers From Mars and read it. Now.
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