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If we take a young child with a good reading comprehison. With a lifespan of 100 years. We make him read EVERY single comic book EVER publish till this date.

Do you think he will finish reading all of them before his death?

Or would he die and never finish reading them?

(Digi, Tron, and pr1983 I'm looking at you guys)

If he has powers to never get tired or bored of them...Then yes.

I can read 20, 30 comics a day until I get bored enough not to read anymore for a week.

Forced to stop after he achieves mental retardation.


No, srsly.

He'd die but at least he'd be too stupid to know it.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
He'd die but at least he'd be too stupid to know it.

Ignorance is bliss?

There are probably billions of comics that have been published, I don't think it's possible to read them all in a human lifetime

Originally posted by Endless Mike
There are probably billions of comics that have been published, I don't think it's possible to read them all in a human lifetime I doubt its billions.

Yeah, it'd be excruciating boring though.

He'd probably commit suicide aswell.

Wait... he only has to read one copy of each individual issue, right? ermm

Good topic.

Reading is reading, and reading tons of comics is more than a LOT of people can say when it comes to their reading history, so the jokes about being stupid aren't terribly justifiable.

I'm of the mind that he'd be in some trouble trying to complete his task. What are we considering comics? Just English-language comics? Does he have to learn other languages, or just browse the comics written in a different language? Does manga count? Comics strips like Peanuts, Garfield, etc.? Pornographic comics that are distributed online?

It's a long list. If we narrow it to mainstream English-speaking comics, sure, it's very doable. Otherwise, catching up and keeping up with the vast amount of material that's put out would be nigh-impossible.

Originally posted by DigiMark007
Reading is reading, and reading tons of comics is more than a LOT of people can say when it comes to their reading history, so the jokes about being stupid aren't terribly justifiable.

As a teacher you should know that having experiences outside of fiction is important to learning.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
As a teacher you should know that having experiences outside of fiction is important to learning.

As a teacher, I know that reading anything is important to learning. You want to be a better writer, read. A better listener, read. Speaker, read. Student, read. Thinker, read. Etc.

Ideally, yes, a person's reading experience is diverse. But there's a large percentage of the population that Cliff Noted their way through school and haven't touched anything deeper than Cosmo or ESPN magazine since then. Comic reading >>> that, especially some of the more eloquent stuff like Moore or Gaiman, even if it's still not ideal.

Originally posted by DigiMark007
As a teacher, I know that reading anything is important to learning. You want to be a better writer, read. A better listener, read. Speaker, read. Student, read. Thinker, read. Etc.

Ideally, yes, a person's reading experience is diverse. But there's a large percentage of the population that Cliff Noted their way through school and haven't touched anything deeper than Cosmo or ESPN magazine since then. Comic reading >>> that, especially some of the more eloquent stuff like Moore or Gaiman, even if it's still not ideal.

How will this kid ever learn to think in any meaningful way? He would know absolutely nothing about reality. At best he'd seem like an autistic savant but with even less connection to others.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
How will this kid ever learn to think in any meaningful way? He would know absolutely nothing about reality. At best he'd seem like an autistic savant but with even less connection to others.

Oh, we're talking about this thread. It's a hypothetical situation. I was talking more about the real world, where sometimes getting a kid into comics is the only reading you can get him to do, and it's better than nothing. I would never advocate solely comics...but TV, newspapers, magazines, school books, etc. give us a more complete view, even if it's still up to the person to expand their own knowledge. Nobody lives inside the vacuum that WD's scenario presents, so it's cool to think about but not really valid as a starting point for educational theory.

I hope Digi teaches my kid some day. droolio

Comics helps kids with reading.

I struggled with easy words before I was introduced to comics. Now I am a level their that anyone else my age. By quite a few years.

Its just my typing that sucks.

Originally posted by DigiMark007
Oh, we're talking about this thread.

Yeah, seeing as how this thread is about . . . this thread


Originally posted by DigiMark007
It's a hypothetical situation. I was talking more about the real world, where sometimes getting a kid into comics is the only reading you can get him to do, and it's better than nothing. I would never advocate solely comics...but TV, newspapers, magazines, school books, etc. give us a more complete view, even if it's still up to the person to expand their own knowledge. Nobody lives inside the vacuum that WD's scenario presents, so it's cool to think about but not really valid as a starting point for educational theory.

I thought you were saying that a person could get a reasonable education just reading comic books for a few decades. Hence teh confusion.

Can you imagine the childs understanding of science?

The kid would get half-way through the avengers before killing himself out of sheer boredom.

Originally posted by DigiMark007
Oh, we're talking about this thread. It's a hypothetical situation. I was talking more about the real world, where sometimes getting a kid into comics is the only reading you can get him to do, and it's better than nothing. I would never advocate solely comics...but TV, newspapers, magazines, school books, etc. give us a more complete view, even if it's still up to the person to expand their own knowledge. Nobody lives inside the vacuum that WD's scenario presents, so it's cool to think about but not really valid as a starting point for educational theory. Hey Digi you're going to love this.

Last week I was sitting in class and then someone was talking about a General Class he was taking and how is assignment was to read a comic book.

I looked back and I saw him holding Marvel Civil War.

Originally posted by Newjak
Hey Digi you're going to love this.

Last week I was sitting in class and then someone was talking about a General Class he was taking and how is assignment was to read a comic book.

I looked back and I saw him holding Marvel Civil War.

hysterical

Originally posted by Newjak
Hey Digi you're going to love this.

Last week I was sitting in class and then someone was talking about a General Class he was taking and how is assignment was to read a comic book.

I looked back and I saw him holding Marvel Civil War.

Cool. I'm not the only one...though it was, admittedly, only about 3 kids that wrote on it for me. The other 110 or so did "normal" papers.

Originally posted by DigiMark007
Cool. I'm not the only one...though it was, admittedly, only about 3 kids that wrote on it for me. The other 110 or so did "normal" papers. That sucks

from the sound of everyone in this class had to read it.

Originally posted by grey fox
The kid would get half-way through the avengers before killing himself out of sheer boredom.

The sixties/Seventies stories of the Avengers or the X-men were super fun

The kid would get through the early strips of the golden age, understand those fine, would read the westerns and the love stories, get to those early Superman, Batman stories, enjoy them, maybe be a little weirded out by folks like the Bee Keeper and the Black Condor.

And then he would hit the Silver Age and his brain would implode from the sheer, unadedultered madness he would be encountering everyday. Once he gets to say... the stories of Bob Kanigher or Bob Haney, he would just collapse from sheer awesomeness and insanity.

Originally posted by willRules
The sixties/Seventies stories of the Avengers or the X-men were super fun

The seventies in particular. It is for this reason everyone must read LOSH when Jim Shooter starts to right it.

Originally posted by willRules
The sixties/Seventies stories of the Avengers or the X-men were super fun

No.

No they weren't.

I was bored out of my mind by the plot up until the Kree/Skrull war which was a hell of alot smaller then I expected.

Wanda was 70's cheesecake and wouldn't stop talking about her 'Hex-sphere'
Pietro never did any actual running , he just pinball's off of everything.

Vision wouldn't stop whining about he 'Is an artificial being with synthetic...ect' and about how he can 'lower his density'

Clint never shut the f*ck up about his Goliath position

Thor did barely ANYTHING

Repeated references to black guys as 'soul brothers' (WTF !!! )

And Rick.....dear god did I ever want to crack his head open like an egg !