Our Hero

1. E1. The Comeback Issue

   Oct 5, 2001

   A still grieving Kale is continuing to live in her memories, which causes her to seclude from the rest of the world even more. In order to help Kale move on with her life, Mary-E attempts to convince her friend to attend a zine show. There Kale has the shock of her life when she is visited by an old friend. Meanwhile, Ross begins to freaks out and becomes a nervous wreck when he comes into contact with his long time crush, George Lagogianes who is covering the zine show.

2. E2. The Trapped Issue

   Oct 12, 2001

   With Bill again intruding in different parts of Kale's life by attempting to spend a lot of time with her mother, she attempts to be free of him by departing Toronto for the weekend with her friends. Everything seems to be in order for this mini-vacation as they have finally acquired a car, but there is one problem. An activist/zine writer named Malachi has handcuffed himself to Kale's car to protest air pollution.

3. E3. The Porn Issue

   Oct 19, 2001

   An ""Our Hero"" reader sends Kale a naked picture of himself wearing cowboy boots. She gets a kick out of it and decides to bring it to school to show it to her friends. Unbeknownst to her, she accidentally loses it along with one of her zines. The picture falls into the hands of Mr. Minetta who reports Kale to Ms. Terzik-Sykes who in turn calls her parents. At home, Kale was expecting to be punished by her parents for what happened, but is shocked to find out what her parents really think when she receives another hilarious and embarrassing talk from them. Joey and Mila tell Kale that it is ok for her to look at porn because they do and it helps them with their love life. Things go from bad to worse for a freaked out Kale as Joey decides to protest the punishment the school has given to his daughter. He wants to make a speech at a parent teacher meeting to discuss the right to free speech by defending and preaching the merits of porn with the assistance of visual aids.

4. E4. The Crabby Issue

   Oct 26, 2001

   In an effort to have more excitement in her life and feel like she is making a difference, Kale joins Malachi and his activist friends in building a park in the middle of an intersection to protest the lack of green space. Kale makes the mistake of leaving her palm pilot with all the names and numbers of Malchi's friends, which the police use to apprehend some of them due to the park incident. Meanwhile, happy go luck Mary-E is feeling down due to a cranky clerk at her favorite story refusing to smile and be nice. In order to counter this and brighten the day of many people, Mary-E gets permission from Ms. Terzik-Sykes to have a niceness day at school. Dalal and Ross race against time to put a stop to this niceness day as the two believe that Mary-E's feelings will end of being hurt if this event backfires.

5. E5. The Psycho Issue

   Nov 2, 2001

   Kale heads to Bill's house to find out whether he was doing drugs while he was sleeping with her because she needs this information to donate blood with Malachi. At his home, she meets his new girlfriend Kayla who seems to share a lot similar characteristics with Kale, two of them being looks and clothing. Fearing that Bill will treat this girlfriend the same way that he treated her, Kale becomes obsessed and consumed with breaking the two apart. She discovers that this was a big mistake when she sees a side of distraught Bill that she had never seen before. Meanwhile, Ethan decides to use Kale's basement against her wishes to hold his own comedy workshop to teach aspiring comedians.

6. E6. The Winnie Crundel Issue

   Nov 9, 2001

   Kale's perspective, So our generation is supposed to be liberated, right? I mean, we're so liberated that to us 'liberated' is this hugely outdated word that makes us giggle. HAHAHA. We look smugly back at our parents' generation and think - poor them having to grow their hair to make a statement and having to fight these really obvious issues like racism and sexism. Our world is so much shinier. People are so much more tolerant. Yay us! While all the above may be true in general terms, I'd like to point out that where the PC learning of our youth left off, the narrow-minded views of the ages have taken over. For instance, in the area of ""young women"" and sex, I have recently discovered that we're all just a bunch of red-necked yahoos, scratching our privates and making grunting noises at the people we don't understand. If women want to have sex a lot, that should be fine. If women want to have sex a little, that should be fine, too. If women want to save sex for marriage, what's the

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