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by **Punchy** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 5:57 pm

Darkwing Duck is not for kids, it's nostalgia for people who remember the cartoon from their own childhoods. Darkwing Duck was cancelled 10 years before today's kids were born.

by **Zechs** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:01 pm

Punchy wrote:Darkwing Duck is not for kids, it's nostalgia for people who remember the cartoon from their own childhoods. Darkwing Duck was cancelled 10 years before today's kids were born.

And yet those adults will pass it on to their kids and they will enjoy it. There's no gorey violence or sexual subtext that can be found in "kid" comics such as Amazing Spider-Man or other Marvel or DC books. So I guess what your also saying is Scrooge McDuck is also not for kids even though the show with him was canceled ten years ago too yes?

by **Punchy** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:13 pm

Zechs wrote:
And yet those adults will pass it on to their kids and they will enjoy it. There's no gorey violence or sexual subtext that can be found in "kid" comics such as Amazing Spider-Man or other Marvel or DC books. So I guess what your also saying is Scrooge McDuck is also not for kids even though the show with him was canceled ten years ago too yes?

I doubt kids will love it, they have no connection to it.

And Scrooge McDuck is a classic comics character, hardly comparable.

by **Muppetesque** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:13 pm

Punchy wrote:
Because most of it is? As I said, Bone is the exception.

Most regular Marvel and DC Universe superhero comics I would say are appropriate for kids, as they have some darkness in them, but to most, they are objectionable. That is wrong.

I read Watchmen when I was 12, and it never did me any harm, let your kids read Punisher MAX and Identity Crisis!

I know now Punchy is fucked up *because* of Watchmen.

Seriously speaking, 12 is a radically different situation then the ages I've seen mentioned in the thread. 4 is different than 8 which is different than 12. Watchmen would go over the head of a four year-old and would likely be too intense for most but not all 8year-olds. Really the parent needs to decide what's age appropriate for the child.

by **Punchy** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:14 pm

nerdygirl wrote:
I know now Punchy is fucked up *because* of Watchmen.

Seriously speaking, 12 is a radically different situation then the ages I've seen mentioned in the thread. 4 is different than 8 which is different than 12. Watchmen would go over the head of a four year-old and would likely be too intense for most but not all 8year-olds. Really the parent needs to decide what's age appropriate for the child.

All comics would go over the head of a 4 year old! You can't read when you're 4.

by **Muppetesque** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:19 pm

Punchy wrote:
All comics would go over the head of a 4 year old! You can't read when you're 4.

I was reading before my 3rd birthday.

by **Punchy** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:22 pm

nerdygirl wrote:

I was reading before my 3rd birthday.

Then you're a child wunderkind.

by **rdrsfn82** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:22 pm

Punchy wrote:
All comics would go over the head of a 4 year old! You can't read when you're 4.

My kid has enjoyed having comics read to her since she was 3 and enjoyed wordless comics for the same amount of time.

by **habitual** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:22 pm

Jude Terror wrote:An interesting article and good start to a column. I'd like to get my kids into comics, and they're certainly interested in them when I get mine, but I have no idea where to start.

The original Captain Marvel Adventures is the perfect children's comic.

Hab

by **habitual** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:23 pm

Punchy wrote:
All comics would go over the head of a 4 year old! You can't read when you're 4.

This is wrong.

Hab

by **rdrsfn82** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:24 pm

Punchy wrote:
I doubt kids will love it, they have no connection to it.

And Scrooge McDuck is a classic comics character, hardly comparable.

You know how Scrooge and Bugs Bunny and whatnot became classic characters? People kept watching their cartoons and reading their comics, even though they were from decades before. Kids like shows like Batman:TAS that were canceled before they were born. Some of my favorite movies are older than my mom. Kids could watch Darkwing Duck on DVD, same as the old Ninja Turtle or Looney Toons.

Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean all kids dislike it.

by **Muppetesque** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:27 pm

rdrsfn82 wrote:
You know how Scrooge and Bugs Bunny and whatnot became classic characters? People kept watching their cartoons and reading their comics, even though they were from decades before. Kids like shows like Batman:TAS that were canceled before they were born. Some of my favorite movies are older than my mom. Kids could watch Darkwing Duck on DVD, same as the old Ninja Turtle or Looney Toons.

Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean all kids dislike it.

Is that the problem? Punchy is offended by "kids books" because subconsciously he still viewshimself as a kid?

by **Punchy** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:29 pm

nerdygirl wrote:
Is that the problem? Punchy is offended by "kids books" because subconsciously he still viewshimself as a kid?

A psychologist you aint.

by **Punchy** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:30 pm

rdrsfn82 wrote:
You know how Scrooge and Bugs Bunny and whatnot became classic characters? People kept watching their cartoons and reading their comics, even though they were from decades before. Kids like shows like Batman:TAS that were canceled before they were born. Some of my favorite movies are older than my mom. Kids could watch Darkwing Duck on DVD, same as the old Ninja Turtle or Looney Toons.

Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean all kids dislike it.

And also by actually being classic.

by **rdrsfn82** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:31 pm

nerdygirl wrote:
Is that the problem? Punchy is offended by "kids books" because subconsciously he still viewshimself as a kid?

A lot of people around his age, in that 12-25 range, have this same problem and shit all over things aimed at kids as being silly and childish because they want to show how mature they are. I'm not saying Punchy is doing that, but it wouldn't shock me.