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he's 7. he just read the entire Bone telephone book. he's read bits of Tin Tin before (shutup kit) but this his major entry into long story comic stuff.

he really seems to like stuff that isn't over qiuickly...he read a bunch of Tashi novels and initially wanted them because=lotsa books in the series.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 23 March 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Asterix!
(ignore the recent ones)

― Ray (Ray), Thursday, 23 March 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Peanut Butter and Jeremys Best Book Ever http://www.indyworld.com/kochalka/pbj.html

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

The 1990 World's Finest miniseries by Dave Gibbons and Steve Rude would be a good entry to DC's Big Two characters. If you can find a copy, Bob Burden & Art Adams' Gumby Summer Fun Special is hilarious and wonderful.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

thanx so far. had been thinking of asterix. how wordy is it? could he read it in order?

that peanut butter book looks good.

also he is already a bob burden fan (see neds thread devoted to the boys comics on ile) & yeah getting him into those characters might be cool. all my batshit is too old for him at the moment

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Asterix is reasonably wordy (more so than Tintin), and the books are all stand alone - in the UK at least, they're not even numbered in the order they were originally written. It's basically all about gags and fun.

As for recommendations for long works... Hmmm, I could think of a load of good ones for, say, a twelve year-old, but I'm not sure about seven...

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i think so too - any of the essentials books? too old?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

He might enjoy the FFs, I guess, although I'd probably say ten or so would be a better age.

Maybe Dan Dare? The Frank Hampson ones are fantastic (if a little pricey).

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

The (much) older 2000AD stuff would probably appeal too - at least I liked it when I was about that age. 2000AD's target demographic changed in the late 80's though, which was great for some stories but for other stories meant more blood, tits, and irritatingingly teeny angst.

― Ray (Ray), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I was a bit scared of 2000 AD at that age. Too nihilistic and chaotic. I think I was about eleven when I got into it.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Although the more light-hearted strips might go down well - the first couple of Robo-Hunter stories, for example.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

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maybe I'm just older than you... I was five when 2000AD was launched, and I remember reading and enjoying it when I was 7 or 8. I also read and enjoyed it when I was 14-16, but the tone of the stories was quite different. MACH 1 and MACH 0 contrasted with Bad Company, Strontium Dog + Gronk compared to Strontium Dog + Durham Red, etc... Slaine the barbarian in the arena vs Slaine marrying the earth goddess (vs the recent Slaine)

― Ray (Ray), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it launched the year before I was born, so when I was seven it must've been getting into its more blood-soaked phase.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Owly might be too young for him, or maybe not. It's wordless and CUTE BEYOND BELIEF.

Rocketo maybe in a year or two.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe some of that Miyazaki manga...,eg Nausicaa (I haven't read these, but they look great...)

― dave k, Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

If you don't mind your kid looking at drawings of Black Cat in her underwear, the superawesome Spider-Man/Human Torch: I'm With Stupid is superawesome and straightforward. It's got lots of nods to continuity and stuff, but none that interrupt or get in the way of the story.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'd recommend the Spidey & FF Essentials in a heartbeat, but they're in B&W, and I dunno if that's appealing to a 7-year-old. Tho, hell, I loved reading the daily comics in the newspaper, so it might be OK. (And I just saw that your kid read the Bonebook, so never mind me.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Asterix doesn't need at all to be read in order (the first one's actually not nearly as good as some of the later '60s-'70s ones). My introduction to it was "Asterix the Gladiator," which I still remember fondly. I also remember the one about the Olympics and "The Mansions of the Gods" and especially "Asterix the Legionary" as particularly hilarious.

Also: "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck." A good long hefty read, and spectacularly funny (although he probably won't get the "Citizen Kane" jokes yet). And quietly educational, too...

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

I want to read Scrooge!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Nausicaa's good. Epic. Maybe too mature, though?

Owly looks cuuuuute. (I want to get it for me now)

I've read some Gon (which is also wordless) and liked the story. The only downside is that your son might blast through the books fast (since there are no words).

- Gon and sample
- Gon on Safari and sample
- Gon Underground and sample.

I think What's Michael is hilarious. But that's because I'm a cat person. sample.

None of the title's I've mentioned are long (in the way that Bone: One Volume is)- they're all part of a series. But, if you get one and he likes it, there are plenty more...

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Goodbye, Chunky Rice if cute animals and a paean to friendship appeals to the lad. Also, good if you want him to grow up emo.

Hellboy if he can handle "scary" stuff, and words like "crap" and "ass."

― c(''c) (Leee), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

"Asterix the Legionary" as particularly hilarious.

Yeah, that one's great. Asterix in Belgium, Asterix in Spain and Asterix and the Laurel Wreath are also favourites.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

I liked issues of Groo. Also, the Mattel hardback collections of early/mid Peanuts strips.

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

I think Goodbye, Chunky Rice is depressing! If I remember correctly, one of the little kids/animals gets the crap beat out of him in a really scarey way. Bone has "scarey" stuff in it but it's Disney-scarey (e.g. The monsters argue about quiche).

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Polly & The Pirates is pretty wholesome and fun! Tho it's not finished just yet, and it's (obviously) about a girl.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Magic Pickle by Scott Morse.
Big Guy & Rusty the Boy Robot by Frank Miller and Geoff Darrow.

Both of which I have and have outgrown. (I.e. I'm no longer 22.)

Runaways!

And if he was into Bone, then what about the Rose mini? Stay very far away from Stupid Stupid Rat Tales, however.

VG, I've forgotten almost all the details about Chunky Rice because of the veil of tears over my memory of it.

― c(''c) (Leee), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Come to think of it, Tezuka's Buddha was targeted at young boys, though I think a wee bit older, about 10-12.

― c(''c) (Leee), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Gon is a great follow-up to Bone (yes he can belt through it quickly, but the art is more intricate so he can slow down and look at detail)! Goodbye Chunky Rice I think I showed you in the bookshop, but they only had the silly-expensive "turtleback" edition - wait for the new paperback from Big New York Mainstream Publisher whenever it comes out I guess. (Or try comic shop.)

Asterix OTM. Probably don't start with the first one because it's rub, but give him some early ones before too many middle-late ones, to get used to the set-up before they pile loads of new characters into each book. Asterix & The Roman Agent was my favourite out of the ones I owned and wasn't getting from the library when I was seven, largely because of the big diagram of the fight near the end that I could lie down and get involved in.

(I think Asterix In Switzerland was my first, which led to some problems when I blithely interpreted "orgy" to mean a big party where people wore sheets and used it repeatedly in a second-grade story-writing class.)

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

Here's the Asterixes in order, definitely keep him away from the post-Goscinny ones as long as possible (and altogether after the first three). Big Fight is probably a decent place to start, since it's set in the village and lets him learn the status quo? Cleopatra's definitely the greatest early one with that caveat removed. Olympic Games could be good if he's been interested in the Commonwealth ones lately!

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 23 March 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

(Asterix)...led to some problems when I blithely interpreted "orgy" to mean a big party where people wore sheets

I know exactly what you mean, I thought that was what it meant till I was in my late teens.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Friday, 24 March 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahahaha! That's three of us.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 24 March 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

gizmo gearloose!!!!!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Friday, 24 March 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

Asterix & The Roman Agent was my favourite out of the ones I owned and wasn't getting from the library when I was seven, largely because of the big diagram of the fight near the end that I could lie down and get involved in.

Yes, yes, YES!

― Ray (Ray), Friday, 24 March 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

I've just read some Owly online and it's like being force fed sugar by a mob of doe-eyed puppies wearing big pink bows. Also, I actually found it a little bit hard to follow.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

thanks all - school hols we hit the shops! (does kit wanna come?)

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 26 March 2006 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

sure ting! the library should be good for Asterix I assume, unless the world has changed for the worse in the last twenty years.

I thought that was what it meant till I was in my late teens

Even after I got it sorted, it took YEARS more until I figured out that the little dweeby fella wasn't actually clumsy, he was losing his bread on purpose so that he would be punished with the stick and the whip and the whatever came next.

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 26 March 2006 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

I also love What's Michael. Although the last What's Michael book I got was fairly unimpressive.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 26 March 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

I re-read Rocketo last night, and have decided to come out FIRMLY in favour of it as kidlit.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

i gave him some Madmans - no response yet. Guess thats a no.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

Mister O! (see 'ther thread)

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

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