Howdy folks, my niece loves comics, superheroes, and in general has excellent taste. She's 8, but reads WAY ahead of her level. She's bright enough to make this uncle super proud. ;) Anyway, I want to get her some comics, and I was wondering if y'all had some recommendations for good, all-ages titles actually being published today. The only current books she's reading is My Little Pony. Any ideas?
What first came to mind for me was the Marvel Adventures line that I know was designed to have age appropriate content for children. Here's a link that I found that has a nice list: http://comicbooks.about.com/od/buyingcomics/tp/toptenkids.htm
The article does have a description of each comic, but I don't know when this page was published. Here's just the list:
1. The Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century
2. Marvel Adventures: The Avengers
3. Sonic the Hedgehog
4. Archie Comics
5. Disney Comics
6. Justice League Unlimited
7. Franklin Richards
8. Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane
9. Teen Titans GO!
10. Amelia Rules
11. Batman Strikes
12. Amazing Spider-Girl
13. Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man
14. Looney Tunes
15. Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four
16. Marvel Adventures: Iron Man
17. Scooby Doo
18. The Simpsons
A lot of these are based off current or recent cartoon shows, so it appears there is a focus to maintain the age appropriate content.
Welcome your niece to the club for us! :thumbup:
The first few volumes of Bone have been colorized and sold by Scholastic. They might be for a middle school reading level, but you said your niece reads above her level.
If you've never read Bone before, imagine A modern version of Carl Banks' Donald Duck.
http://www.scholastic.com/bone/books.htm
Cartoon Network is taking their shows and turning them into comics.
Adventure Time
Regular Show
Steven Universe
The Amazing World of Gumball
The Sonic comics are a great read as well
The Simpsons
Mega Man in addition to the above listed if no other reason it's quality. I second Bone as well. I've read through every volume and would go through them again. Of course you probably want to pull her into the superhero world though in that I'd go with the current Silver Surfer series by Alred.
Quote from: SickAlice on October 10, 2014, 02:22:17 PM
Mega Man in addition to the above listed if no other reason it's quality. I second Bone as well. I've read through every volume and would go through them again. Of course you probably want to pull her into the superhero world though in that I'd go with the current Silver Surfer series by Alred.
I also second Silver Surfer, I'm loving the female they have tagging alone with him.
Thanks guys, this looks like a great set of recommendations! I actually thought of the fantastic Marvel Adventures series and JLU right away. I've read some of them myself, and they were really good. To this day the Marvel Adventure books are some of my favorite Fantastic Four stories. Anyway, there are some good ideas here I hadn't thought of. I read Sonic when I was a kid, and that might make a good book for her.
I've heard good things about this new Silver Surfer book, but I would definitely hesitate to give ANY kid ANY book from modern mainstream DC or Marvel.
It's pretty tame and funny (always previews at CBR or whatever of course) though I presumed your like me in that you'd review any material yourself before letting a child view it. The story centers a normal Earth girl named Dawn as well who dresses in laybug-ish clothing and I thought that would appeal to a young girl as well.
Else I don't know much of your niece to gauge by. Mines a child genius (already in college learning to design nanorobots at the tender age of twelve, we are so proud) and pretty much walked through my attempts at sugar coating when she was the age of yours. For example I tried explaining to her that her mum couldn't buy her something because money didn't grow on trees. She replied " Of course not, it comes from the bank silly. " Anyways I tried turning her onto comics, first buying her a plush chibi looking Spidey when she was three but she choose to seek out old EC horror comics instead on her own (I did the same thing when I was that age actually). Point being there's no real way to account for taste sometimes. Anyways I'll give the current Surfer book a family friendly rating if it helps.