>Excited to see what that one's all about finally.

it's about... well, just read it. I like it. Just picked up #19 over lunch.

>I'm in line for the latest Darwyn Cooke PARKER book as well.
>EEEE.

Yassir... I'm hoping that doesn't mean there's one out that I've missed.

>I've maybe read 3 *comic books* in as many months. Maybe. Just
>been working non-stop,

Good to know... I went about a month w/o getting to the shop back in Jan/Feb - between work insanity and weather insanity, lunch + a trip to the comics shop never quite came together.

>and when I do read it's been... prose.
>The one's without the pictures? Yeah I dunno what's up with
>that either.

haha... I'm into Clash of Kings now. Didn't finish the last prose (fiction) book I read, 'The Sound of THings Falling' by Juan Gabriel Vasquez. Also got The Luminaires (http://www.amazon.com/Luminaries-Eleanor-Catton/dp/1480592595) for my birthday, haven't even glanced at it yet but will soon.

>I recently tried reading Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
>because I'd heard it was one of the greatest comics ever, but
>I couldn't get into it. Le shrug.

You watch the movie? Probably skews a bit old for my kids but they went crazy for it when we went through our Miyazaki phase last year. I got a volume of the manga out but it didn't grab me as well. It IS much much much more detailed than the movie though.

>K4 has been getting into superheroes heavvvvy which is kind of
>something I've been waiting for if not necessarily pushing
>towards. It's fun, it can be a little exhausting because he
>grills me on their origins non-stop. Oh, and if he doesn't
>like their origin, he'll request that I come up with a new
>one. I guess Hulk was just one science-experiment-gone-wrong
>too many, so in our household Bruce Banner became the Hulk
>thanks to a magic green crystal. Or, if he's watching a
>cartoon and it plays out differently than how I described it
>to him, he just shoots me this look that says, "You don't even
>know what you're talking about old man"

I've tried to drill into my kids the idea the stories can be told in numerous ways, usually by reading a book and then watching the movie (or movies, in certain cases). So far, though, that hasn't worked on the 3 year old. Who, yes, wears a superhero shirt (with matcing underwear) almost every day. Outrageous.

>He still digs those Tiny Titans comics L_d sent for Secret
>Satan, and we've been reading some Superhero Squad comics from
>the library. Those are funny, sometimes a little on the snarky
>side. He's aware that there's levels to this shit, and that
>the darker stuff tends to be for "big kids" so naturally that
>fascinates him. And at my age, that stuff just feels like it's
>trying too hard to be 'mature', so meanwhile I'm pushing for
>B:BATB. Outrageous.

Hmm, I didn't really like the Superhero Squad books. Or Mini Marvels, for that matter. I thought DC Superfriends and most of the B:TBATB books were right on for the 4-6 age range though. Superheros, but also problem solving, and not much violence. Glad that he likes the Tiny Titans books though. Don't forget about Superman Family Adventures, either!