Mephisto - I would rip you a new one, but hawkeye did that already. granted, real books are good. but where do you draw the line between "real" books and comics? Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, Dilbert - comics, yet they have/had some of the greatest impact on the youth of this generation thus far. real books - what are those? do you refer to classics, like Dickens, Dostoevsky, Tolkien? Asimov, Heinlein, and others wrote science fiction, yet is that real or imaginary - do you think science fiction is "real", does it affect the populace as much as, say, "David Copperfield" or "War and Peace"? my point is, that you really can't make a distiction between comics (well-written ones, at least - I won't get into what is and isn't well-written here, as that's a post for another day, another thread) and books that were meant to be read as fiction, or even books meant to be read as non-fiction, for comics reflect reality and the social events of the day (see Editorial Cartoons of the Year, 1970s-present, or just look at what the superheroes deal with in stories not about their normal villians). research your topic before you talk, and we'll all have a harder time (if we can at all) proving you a fool.
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