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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ledded" data-source="post: 1711225" data-attributes="member: 12744">I did a similar thing, I read a lot of different comics as a youth but turned into a voracious reader;  too much so to continue with comics past the age of 12-13 except for a select few.  I read Tolkein when I was twelve and realized that I could make those pictures in my mind if the book was good enough, and got a lot more 'bang for my buck' out of a good book.  The last involvement with comics I had for a long time was writing a comic for my friends in school essentially about the people I knew in school, if they were action heros.  Several excerpts were taken from my notebook, penned, and published in the school paper as a comic strip.  I did a comic strip a few times in college with a buddy of mine doing the inking/co-creation, but it was so raw the paper would rarely publish because of fear of backlash against the various stereotypes we pummelled. But I always loved the old Superhero comics genre and all of the different facets with it, so when my son started getting into superheros, I was overjoyed to find a kind of resurgence in interest for me.  Soon he was getting the big figures with all of the points of articulation and staging battles for the Dominance Of The Living Room.  I picked up Freedom Force in the Best Buy sale bin one day because he had a fit to play superhero game, and we had a lot of fun playing it together.   I also introduced him to his first set of Heroclix at age 4; he has been hooked ever since.  We play with a super-simple rule set that is specifically ours (basically, if you want to do something cool, roll 2d6, and if the number seems high enough, hey it worked!).  It's made him even more imaginative and playing with dice increases his math skills because if he doesnt add those pips up, I don't let it count <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.  So I've kind of gone back to my comics roots in the last couple years because of his unbridled enthusiam for anything where the Good Guys thrash the Bad Guys, and then everyone goes over to Captain America's house for pizza.    Yeah, I recently got back into them for my son, reading them at night for bedtime sometimes.  Then I picked up some more 'adult' graphics novels, etc, like Sandman, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and I've moved a little towards finding some more along that vein. With the way you research and write, I'm sure you'll do great in your game.  Any chance of seeing a Story Hour for it?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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