As a big time reader it always puzzles me why anyone would want to limit their reading options

March 30, 2026 - 06:14 UTC

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I don’t either tbh. Like, why are novels considered a “superior” medium? Just bc comics and manga have pictures? Comics take just as much effort to create as novels do, and can sometimes be better written than some novels.
Like it’s just a different form of storytelling, why’s one lesser than1/
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the other? Why are “childish” things considered so bad in so many different media? If anything, we should normalize trying to keep our inner child and creativity alive. 2/
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Because there's a stigma against comics as "immature, childish slop" much in the same way animation isn't respected as a film medium. A lot of it has to do with the 1950s-80s and how the mediums were forced to conform to overly strict censorship

The Dark Age of animation very much applied to comics
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I can attest to this truth. In my Gen-X youth I was not allowed to read comics because they were not real reading. This was wrong and it's awesome we have gotten away from it. Read. Anything. Even signs on a fake dumpster in Los Angeles.
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It's the Everything Must Be Maximally Edifying brigade at work again.

If pleasure reading is a bit simpler than what the kid is reading for class, why should anyone care?

I still remember getting griped at the week I tested college-ready in ITBS reading comp for reading Nate The Great at 13.
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