I can remember when I was younger, I read everything I could get my hands on.  I love to read!  I always HAVE loved to read!  When I was babysitting a neighbor’s kid a few nights ago, I brought a book with me to read after the kid was asleep.  The mother asked me how I would suggest she get her kid to read more.  I told her to let her kid read whatever interested her – even if it meant just reading comic books or reading things over the Internet.  Reading is reading, it doesn’t matter what the medium is.  If you take away your kids comic books, and that is the only thing the kid WILL read, you are hurting the chances of the kid ever developing into a good reader and moving on to other things.  I brought that up because when I was younger my father always complained that I was wasting my time reading comic books.  Well, I’m an avid reader, and I think that reading comic books encouraged me to read more things!  So, parents, if your kids want to read comic books, then let them read comic books!