Over at Comics Should Be Good, Dick Hyacinth has “10 Reasons Why American Children Should Not Be Allowed to Read Comics”:

1. Comics are stupid, and make you stupid. They rot your brain. If you don’t think this is problematic, it might be too late for you. Just think of the most beloved era of Superman comics—the high Weisenger years, when Jimmy Olsen was forever doing stupid things like turning himself into a fish because he was using a special Kryptonian fishing pole, or turning himself into a giant parrot because he ate Kryptonian crackers. These comics were written for children—particularly unsophisticated and dull children at that—but you’d think they were Shakespeare (or even Stephen King!) from the way people speak of them today. If you like them, you’re likely pretty unsophisticated and dull yourself. It’s probably too late to change this now, so feel free to keep reading drivel like Superman or Blankets. But we really should limit our children’s exposure to that kind of trash, especially during the formative years when their brains are like soft, leaky sponges.

Well, somebody had to say it.

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