Children's Comics
 

So, my school is really into helping the community on a deep level, as a result, seniors in high school on Tuesdays in between 8am-12:10pm (During Leadership and Philosophy class) are required to do something cool, namely work at the Daycenter for the homeless, The Little Light House, a school for kids with special needs, or you get to help with the little 'uns in elementary school. My destiny has decreed that the 3rd graders will be mine, all mine, for my army of mindless slaves.

*Ahem*

What I do is read with them, three chapters at most, and seeing as I am not the biggest authority figure, these sessions are usually the most fun, but least productive of their school weeks. I can usually coax some order from them using sarcasm and all different tricks I learned from my mom who has done home daycare since I can remember.

Anyway, I realized recently that these awesome dwarfs (possibly gnomes) have never really read a comic book.

This

Is

Wrong

I have decided to see if, after they finish they're current non-picture book to introduce them to a comic worthy of a third graders level. The teacher loves the work I do with the infamous third graders and knows the miniature like me so convincing her to let me at least show them maybe an issue or two a day, in addition to they're regular reading would be...possible. So what I need are ideas for a good kid friendly book that would be acceptable.

So far I'm thinking that I may go with Bone, which I am currently reading, It's a great title for both kids and adults with it's great humor and thrilling story but I could still use ideas for other titles. Currently I'm mulling over Atomic Robo and Midknight, both of course by Red 5.

I dont know if a school would appreciate you reading them a comic.

Bah! A decent comic book has just a vocabulary just as diverse as anything of the 200 page books they'll read, and something the scope of Bone would last them a while. In speech class I've already performed speeches on the merits of comics as a proper art form and storytelling device (yes, the class still talks to me) The administrator Mr. Brown (we have no principle, rather a board of directors) and I have had conversations at lunch about the discrimination of comics as story telling devices (started by me but Mr. Brown, being awesome, listens to near everyone) and I have his blessing, hell he even borrowed a copy of one of my Astro City trades, basically I only need the third grader's teacher to sign on, which shouldn't too hard. First I'll have to let her review the material of course, and since Bone is more or less kid friendly, unless you are a Nazi parent who doesn't let your kid enjoy any media or entertainment that has even over-the-top comical forms of violence, and because it's massive length will make it last longer than any of the other books they read, which aren't classics , mind you, I think my chances are good.

I just wanted to know if there were any other titles worth recommending

....I wish you were my teacher. God knows what might've happened if I had gotten into webcomics at an earlier age.

You could try franco/belgian comics like Tintin, Spirou, Asterix etc. I don't know if they feature the kind of storytelling you're looking for, but they're certainly kid-friendly. Well, mostly.

The world would collapse into a seil size hole.

But yeah, I got started on kid-comics. My favorite was Lucky Luke, but I don't think he's around any more.

Cable and Deadpool.

They need to be desensitized to the 'real' world.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/1998/19981209h.jpg

Umm......

Needless violence is cool and all but.

No. I don't need Rachel (one of the younglings) killing anyone in my group considering she's died on me twice already.

That was in response to what Krylo was saying about desensitization. Here's one more suited to little persons:

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u.../20050617l.jpg