That's true. Comic Books are a good introduction into literature.

Some comic books are even better than some literature.

Same thing goes for Sci-Fi.
When I was a kid my teacher insisted I stop reading sci-fi & read some "real books." Apparently Phillip K Dick, Arthur C. Clark, etc. aren't "real" authors.
Stupid teacher.

doesn't anybody want to grow up anymore? we've become a society that seeks eternal adolescence

albo: doesn't anybody want to grow up anymore? we've become a society that seeks eternal adolescence

albo: doesn't anybody want to grow up anymore? we've become a society that seeks eternal adolescence

Wrong. The world was just better when I was a kid, and they took that away from me.

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Me, my daughters, and my local comic book store approve this article.

Although it was many years ago, I can still remember that comics were my introduction to concepts like tensile strength and geosynchronous orbit.

albo: doesn't anybody want to grow up anymore? we've become a society that seeks eternal adolescence
I find it childish you think that specific mediums are automatically childish.

My favorite comic book is the Internet...

albo: doesn't anybody want to grow up anymore? we've become a society that seeks eternal adolescence

Move to Japan; comic books are primarily targeted at grown ups.

/you sound crotchety

So. Family borrowed my muffin tin but I need those muffins. What if I were to mix up the batter and cover a pan in tinfoil and just let it settle and have like a muffin cake. What would happen if i did that? disaster?

albo: doesn't anybody want to grow up anymore? we've become a society that seeks eternal adolescence

You know, I hear that argument a lot, and it makes less sense to me every year I grow older. I have carved out a life, I have goals and desires I can and do achieve, and I am a kid at heart. I play video games, I read comic books, I watch South Park at 2am while highly impaired, and I have a circle of friends that I truly cherish.

I gave up looking for what society expected of me about the time I came out at 15. I was off the planned path from that point on, and I cannot imagine I would be happier if I had stuck to it.

Be a kid. Go play. Find wonder and joy. I don't see any other way to live.

This study wad commissioned by the Justice League

What was the literary award Neil Gaiman won again? You know... the one he won for Sandman... which could be considered a comic (actually a graphic novel)??

albo: doesn't anybody want to grow up anymore? we've become a society that seeks eternal adolescence

Comics are just a medium. It's like saying stage poems represent a state of arrested adolescence because you read Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein as a child.
That said, what one actually DOES with that medium IS important.

Sybarite: Although it was many years ago, I can still remember that comics were my introduction to concepts like tensile strength and geosynchronous orbit.

Some comics incorporate a decent number of sci-fi elements... but don't trust 'em unless it's Isaac Asimov writing chemistry into it or something similar.

//Dude wrote a physics layman's book and a couple chemistry textbooks, knew what he was talking about.

vartian: Be a kid. Go play. Find wonder and joy. I don't see any other way to live.

This.

pd771: albo: doesn't anybody want to grow up anymore? we've become a society that seeks eternal adolescence
I find it childish you think that specific mediums are automatically childish.

Green Lantern!

/sorry
//that was one of my favorite JLU episodes
///seriously, though, don't tell me that League of Extraordinary Gentlemen didn't get people to seek out the original source material, for example

albo: doesn't anybody want to grow up anymore? we've become a society that seeks eternal adolescence

Have you read a comic book lately?

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Just don't let them read anything by Bendis... Otherwise the poor kid's gonna sound like a Harold Pinter play when he reads out loud to the class.

schattenteufel: That's true. Comic Books are a good introduction into literature.

Some comic books are even better than some literature.

Same thing goes for Sci-Fi.
When I was a kid my teacher insisted I stop reading sci-fi & read some "real books." Apparently Phillip K Dick, Arthur C. Clark, etc. aren't "real" authors.
Stupid teacher.

As long as comics are not the only things a kid is reading, I would agree wtih you. As for Sci-fi, I was lucky enough to take a year of "Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature" my senior year of high school, and it fulfilled my English/Lit requirement for that year.

vartian: You know, I hear that argument a lot, and it makes less sense to me every year I grow older. I have carved out a life, I have goals and desires I can and do achieve, and I am a kid at heart. I play video games, I read comic books, I watch South Park at 2am while highly impaired, and I have a circle of friends that I truly cherish.

I gave up looking for what society expected of me about the time I came out at 15. I was off the planned path from that point on, and I cannot imagine I would be happier if I had stuck to it.

Be a kid. Go play. Find wonder and joy. I don't see any other way to live.

THIS. Make sure you and your family are taken care of both now and in the future. Once you've gotten that sort of responsibility out of the way, devote your time to enjoying yourself whether that be "adult" pursuits like art, classical music or theatre or more "childish" things like having a few beers watching baseball or going to see Slayer.

/baseball and Slayer, please.

Anything is better than TV.

I hate being lumped in with the intellectual snobs that scoff at television (don't get me wrong there a lots of shows I love).

But I've read way too many studies on how neural development in children is hindered by television watching. When I have children I will be severly limiting their television/movie access until they get older.