View Full Version : iFanboy - the next generation...
kwok_talk
01-30-2007, 08:16 PM
In celebration of Jimski's new baby (figure we might as well run with the rumor)...
Do you think you’ll try and get your kids into comics when they get old enough? How cool would it be to make the weekly trip out to the comic shop with your son/daughter and have them all excited about comics? Or do you think the opposite will happen because they don’t want to do the same things you do? Will we become like the stereotypical crazy dad or mom at a little league game pushing their kid to have them enjoy the same thing they did when they were kids?
“Son, you’ll read Daredevil and like it!”
My kids love Marvel characters. There's so much stuff geared towards kids their ages(4 and 3) at this point. It's pretty cool. Sometimes they'll climb onto my lap as I'm reading and demand that I read them a story and if it's something that's not too violent or anything I do and they like it.
and congrats again to the skis
conorkilpatrick
01-30-2007, 08:28 PM
Whew - I thought this thread was going to be about replacing us...
kwok_talk
01-30-2007, 08:29 PM
Whew - I thought this thread was going to be about replacing us...
Might not be that bad. Less work. Just sit back and coast off the royalties from name usage.
jimski
01-30-2007, 08:50 PM
In the days before the relaunch of Battlestar Galactica, I used to tell any girlfriend who daydreamed aloud about our children that I wanted to name my first son Apollo Starbuck. My second son would be Clive Boethius. That usually put a stop to that nonsense.
Now, I'm a little more open to speculating about little Apollo.
I have some friends who married young, and their oldest son just started school. From the minute he even approached literacy, I started putting back issues in his hands. He has taken to them very well, but now I'm at a loss because I want him to stick with it but there's almost nothing in my local shop that I would want him reading. His mom would kick my ass.
Last time I saw him, I gave him my Jeff Smith Bone Megabook. If he likes it, that oughtta hold him until someone besides me accidentally teaches him the f word.
davegraham
01-30-2007, 09:00 PM
When I read the title I got the image of the "big three" iFanboys plus Worf.
I have already turned my four-year-old nephew onto superheroes. We've watched the DC animated series and different Marvel movies. He knows more DC guys (Superman, Batman, and Green Arrow) than he does Marvel. I am more of a Marvel guy, but it’s all good. My sister said he watches the Legion of Superheroes cartoon.
I'd bet the typical entry age to comics is mid to late teens. You need disposable income and the ability to get to a comic book store. When I started I got my comics at conveince stores and none of those places have comic book racks anymore.
paulsharkey
01-30-2007, 09:19 PM
Whew - I thought this thread was going to be about replacing us...
So did I, I got all exited about it too cause I have three clones of you in my bath. they are just like you but have clocks on the backs of there heads.
Gentlemen I give you the future.
conorkilpatrick
01-30-2007, 09:19 PM
If he likes it, that oughtta hold him until someone besides me accidentally teaches him the f word.
When she was like 4 I may have - accidentally of course - watched JFK with my sister. She learned a whole bunch of new words that day.
So did I, I got all exited about it too cause I have three clones of you in my bath. they are just like you but have clocks on the backs of there heads.
Gentlemen I give you the future.
holy crap that's funny
are you darrel?
paulsharkey
01-30-2007, 09:37 PM
holy crap that's funny
are you darrel?
Who isn't Darrel? No.. wait who is Darrel?
Who isn't Darrel? No.. wait who is Darrel?
the stalking the streets guy from the audio podcast and iFanboy proper
hey iFanboy proper, did I just do something there? is that like 616 now?
paulsharkey
01-30-2007, 09:55 PM
the stalking the streets guy from the audio podcast and iFanboy proper
No, but god I wish I was. You know with work and stuff I'm lucky if I get twenty minutes of stalking a week.
My son is only 2.5 months old, but as you can see in the attached, I've already started introducing him to characters. I figure just having comic-y stuff around will lead him to have some interest, as kids seem to take to superheroes regardless if their p's are readers. At some point it'll be his choice, and I won't force it on him - he'd just rebel anyway. That being said, I do look forward to taking him to the LCS with me when he's a little older.
At this stage in my life, the only purpose I see in having kids is that they give me a proper excuse to buy action figures. That kid will be spoiled to all hell with super hero action figures.
My son is only 2.5 months old, but as you can see in the attached, I've already started introducing him to characters. I figure just having comic-y stuff around will lead him to have some interest, as kids seem to take to superheroes regardless if their p's are readers. At some point it'll be his choice, and I won't force it on him - he'd just rebel anyway. That being said, I do look forward to taking him to the LCS with me when he's a little older.
cute. My son's currently in love with this: http://www.amazon.com/MGA-322344-Spider-Man-Friends-Match-up/dp/B000EULYVU
It's a matching game with 10 little marvel guys(cap, wolvie, etc) that split in half and get hidden under cups
baxter
01-30-2007, 11:11 PM
While I've yet to reproduce (that I know of) I regularly hook up one of my co-workers son with Marvel Adventures Avengers. He loves them.
...I do too. Its alot of fun.
spiffy
01-30-2007, 11:11 PM
My son is only 2.5 months old, but as you can see in the attached, I've already started introducing him to characters. I figure just having comic-y stuff around will lead him to have some interest, as kids seem to take to superheroes regardless if their p's are readers. At some point it'll be his choice, and I won't force it on him - he'd just rebel anyway. That being said, I do look forward to taking him to the LCS with me when he's a little older.
Awesome. I got the same thing for the nephew of a friend of mine this Christmas. I was debating, as it was kind of large and I was going to have to ship it, but I decided it was just too cool to pass up.
If the kid grows up to like superheroes, it will be because of me. If he hates them, I'll accept blame for that as well.
For his first Christmas (this last was his second) I got him a bib from 'bluetights.net' the blog for the then filming Superman movie. It says "They always put my cape on backwards"
ekval
01-31-2007, 09:41 PM
My son is two and I'm looking forward to indoctrinating him. My nephew is 4 and is already obsessed with Spidey, Supes, and Batman. I never see that boy when he is not wearing something Spider-man related. (I hope he doesn't get pounded in school!)
I will say that I'll have to get over my analness about bending and creasing of stuff. Or maybe I'll just keep a box of stuff for them and as they get older they can dive into my real collection when they stop drooling and picking their noses as much.