shaxper
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Post by shaxper on Nov 12, 2016 11:26:14 GMT -5
Currently reading Life With Archie (the 2010 version) with my girls.
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zilch
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Post by zilch on Nov 12, 2016 11:50:38 GMT -5
This is a GREAT thread! Wish i'd seen it sooner!
My son never took a great interest in standard super-hero comics, but really took off on collected Calvin and Hobbes, Foxtrot and Far Side.
He enjoyed Bone and when he was older, Liberty Meadows (i was concerned that it was too sexually explicit for him, but as a healthy teen boy,... never mind)
And parents, he was reading at a college level at 4th Grade and graduated with honors from Webster University in Journalism, so get 'em reading!!!
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 12, 2016 12:53:35 GMT -5
This is a GREAT thread! Wish i'd seen it sooner! My son never took a great interest in standard super-hero comics, but really took off on collected Calvin and Hobbes, Foxtrot and Far Side. He enjoyed Bone and when he was older, Liberty Meadows (i was concerned that it was too sexually explicit for him, but as a healthy teen boy,... never mind) And parents, he was reading at a college level at 4th Grade and graduated with honors from Webster University in Journalism, so get 'em reading!!! I read them my entire childhood and was way ahead of my peers. When we had an English ACT prep class, I was the only one who knew what "vulpine" meant, thanks to seeing it used to describe Wolverine's mask. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 12, 2016 13:07:10 GMT -5
I've got my 8 year old reading some stuff.. she liked Super Hero Girls, Stawberry Shortcake (then one), and a bit of Star (the old Marvel 80s stuff), and a few other kid properties (Power Puff girls, Garfield, etc).. can't quite get her to ASK for comics, but she's happy to read them if I hand her something she likes. No luck at all with my 12 year old.. she read the Super Hero Girls comic, but that's about it.. didn't even tempt her with Cleopatra in Space vol 3, when she read and liked the other 2. My 16 year old is HUGE into Anime, and SAYS she wants to read all sorts of stuff I talk about, but rarely actually pulls the trigger and reads it.. I have hope, though  She'll read some Usagi and Ms. Marvel, but only if I hand them to her right after I read them. She says she wants to read Fables and Lucifer, so that'll be great if that happens |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 12, 2016 16:01:10 GMT -5
I've got my 8 year old reading some stuff.. she liked Super Hero Girls, Stawberry Shortcake (then one), and a bit of Star (the old Marvel 80s stuff), and a few other kid properties (Power Puff girls, Garfield, etc).. can't quite get her to ASK for comics, but she's happy to read them if I hand her something she likes. No luck at all with my 12 year old.. she read the Super Hero Girls comic, but that's about it.. didn't even tempt her with Cleopatra in Space vol 3, when she read and liked the other 2. My 16 year old is HUGE into Anime, and SAYS she wants to read all sorts of stuff I talk about, but rarely actually pulls the trigger and reads it.. I have hope, though She'll read some Usagi and Ms. Marvel, but only if I hand them to her right after I read them. She says she wants to read Fables and Lucifer, so that'll be great if that happens Tell her she can't read them, then leave them where she can find them. Then, let adolescence take its course. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 12, 2016 20:38:52 GMT -5
Tell her she can't read them, then leave them where she can find them. Then, let adolescence take its course. You totally made me LOL with that post! I actually did just that.. not to use reverse psychology (though I admit the side effect was nice), but because I really just didn't want to talk about some of the themes in Fables with my daughter at 12-13 years old... I won't list what those are since this is a KID thread, but I think anyone who has read Fables will know what I'm talking about. I had been telling her she could read them when she was 16 for some time... but relented about 9 months early... She started with Sandman (I told her she really should read up to Season of Mists before she got into Lucifer), but she only got like 10-12 comics into it before she got distracted. Fables she never started, she just keeps telling me she wants to... I can't figure out if she's trying to make me happy without actually doing anything, or if she's just so wrapped up in her 16 year old things that she really just never gets to it. Maybe in the summer |
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She'll read some Usagi and Ms. Marvel, but only if I hand them to her right after I read them. She says she wants to read Fables and Lucifer, so that'll be great if that happens