@Darkmount1: Damn!! i started off with

age 6-8-10 slain 2000ad, hyper reality like the watchmen, General all-round horror stories with blood sex & violence (My big Sis is ten years older then me so I read hers)

@Redletter: Okay, now I've got to reevaluate my age ranges....

@Darkmount1: No please don't!! I had horrible nightmares for years at that age of a undead Bog witch swapping places with me trapped in the dirt as a zombie. I couldn't go near anything remotely swampy looking for years with out getting scared.

Thank you Scream Magazine!

@Redletter: Was that supposed to scare me? Buddy, I've seen Jaws, the original Psycho, the original Night of the Living Dead, and The Shining--those are on my list of films I never want to see again.

@Darkmount1: I'm not your Buddy! Freindl,,just thought you were confirming the level of what your kid should be reading

@Redletter: I'm just trying to create something that'll get people to live up to the old saying "act your age". I think a lot of today's kids are growing up too fast.

@Darkmount1: oh Ive had that discussion plenty of times. I think it's allays been that way from the adults perspective I think subconsciously anyway . The same thing was said about me my mother my grandmother & great grandmother when they were growing up. Adults said to them, "kids today are developing to fast" as well. Its just a saying if you think about what you were doing at age twelve it might make sense, (smoking, drinking, experimentation) & I don't mean in a science lab

@Redletter: I just think that with a lot of the supergizmos out there, the increased accessibility to more mature entertainment, and the like, that it's influencing the way kids today are behaving, the result being that there's little of the actual kid standing there. Kids should be kids.

@Darkmount1: Sure there is a lot more adult content out there readily accessible but it doesn't mean their maturing faster. They still are emotionally children at heart what ever buzz words they spit out, their still going to want to do something cool rather then get a new tooth at the dentist.

(The true test to see if their mature is if they will act mature not pretend to be mature. Theres a deep & profound difference in the two that's really obvious if you think about it)

@Redletter: Yeah, you've got me there.

@Darkmount1: :)

The cartoons like Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes help. Then when they get to liking the TV shows enough, show them your own collection of books, preferably the older ones, like Kirby era stuff, then let them work way to current.

@OmegaHans: Another good thing, since you bring that up, would be to introduce them to the tie-in comics (which either take care of loose threads in the show or give us all-new adventures in that cartoon's universe).