World Mom Complains About ASM Pics of MJ

[Donald Thomas]

Are you sure that you want to stand by a blanket statement like that? Because there are many, many ways to draw a woman wearing a bikini.

And moreover, the woman isn't complaining about a picture of a woman in a bikini. She's complaining about a woman posig in a suggestive manner. And further,she isn't even saying that comics shouldn't be made this way- just that her SIX YEAR OLD SON shouldn't have free access to them in the school library. She's granting that if others want to read them, or allow their kids to, they're welcome. She just doesn't want it in her house.

Further, the issue in question is from the "Nuff Said" month from years back, when the issues produced had no words. So, she is in fact correct when she says that the comic has no literary value.

Aloha,
Again, the library made the mistake of ordering Amazing Spider-Man not knowing that there was a specific age appropriate Spider-Man series called Marvel Age or Adventures of Spider-Man.And what mother has NOT thought that comics were no good? I think moms all went to the same school of thought. My mom made me show her at least 2 new vocabulary words from the comics I read in order for me to justify continuing to read them.I graduated the 6th grade with a 10th grade reading score. She never said another word.
Spidey rules

 

[Chris Wallace]

My mom was the opposite of most moms; she actually encouraged me to read comics as a kid.

 

[Dragon]

Aloha,
Again, the library made the mistake of ordering Amazing Spider-Man not knowing that there was a specific age appropriate Spider-Man series called Marvel Age or Adventures of Spider-Man.And what mother has NOT thought that comics were no good? I think moms all went to the same school of thought. My mom made me show her at least 2 new vocabulary words from the comics I read in order for me to justify continuing to read them.I graduated the 6th grade with a 10th grade reading score. She never said another word.
Spidey rules

This situation is really just an all-around misunderstanding.

The library thought Spidey comics were appropriate for all ages. So, I'm sure did the little boy and intially the mom. But anyone who reads Spidey in current years knows that there's been a shift. Again, thank God the kid didn't grab ASM #526, when Spidey's eye gets ripped out. Or for that matter, the issue a few months down the line from the book in question, when MJ is topless, her nipples only being covered by coffee mugs.

As you mention, there are Spidey comics that are appropriate for young children, and there's no question that the comic are a great way for children to learn to read.

This is a complex issue. Of course the writers and artists shouldn't be censored in telling stories. But there's also no question that Marvel, as well as most of the comic publishers out there use sexual and violent content these days in a purely exploitatvie manner. Sometimes to the the detriment of the very stories they're trying to tell.

 

[SymbioticToxin]

My mom was the opposite of most moms; she actually encouraged me to read comics as a kid.

Thats how my mom is. Well, she didn't really encourage me. She just didn't care. She thought Spider-Man and all that was cool, so she went with it. Poor her, she has to listen to me rant about Spider-aMan and such.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Won't somebody please think of the children!!!


HAHAHAHA what a load of old bollox. If this is how the mother reacts to a drawing of some bikini covered breasts, then how is she going to react when they go to the beach? Or if the weather is really hot and the ladies start flexing their bikinis? It's really quite pathetic.

****ing hell, in Spiderman we see a real life portrayal of MJ in a wet t shirt with her nips nearly on display. I bet she let her son watch the movie.

 

[Agent Z]

There are slow news days, and then there is this.

I have to say, watching the video clip, seeing that grown adults, working at a news station, with all their resources and power, resorted to actually making a news story out of this, is quite surreal. t:

ETA: I do think the mother is reasonable in her basic approach. She is just policing her own family and not calling for heads. Good for her. I think she is overreacting on her own, but I don't think she is asking for anything beyond her basic rights as a consumer to complain.

Now, again, the problem is with the fact that this is making the news....

 

[Reikowolf]

If you don't want your child looking at these things then don't let them. End of story. It's going to be your fault if your child ends up sexually repressed and stunted.

There's worse things on television and real life every day. Comic books were seen as a bad influence since their inception, this is no different.

I'm really tired of the media having to censor itself because parents don't know how to do their jobs.

why should the school be accountable for this? the only thing the school should answer to is if the source didn't serve the educational purpose it was supposed to. Is the child learning to read because of the comic?

when I was a kid in the 90's my school didn't carry comic books because they weren't seen as educational. We used to read comics during recess and in our own time. It had nothing to do with the adult nature of the material.

Diary of Anne Frank touches a slight homosexual themes and I read it when I was in gr 6.

Why is everyone trying to shield their children from the reality of the world? How is that going to help them?

 

[Dread]

My mom was the opposite of most moms; she actually encouraged me to read comics as a kid.

Not only did my mom encourage me to read comic books as a kid, she subscribed to several titles in the mid 80's until the early 2000's or so, which allowed me easy access to ASM, WEB, HULK, THOR and FF (and later DAREDEVIL). I would eventually become far more into comics than she was.

She also briefly dated Andy Mushynsky, an illustrator/inker best known on working on G.I. JOE comics from 1982-1987 as well as quite a bit of STAR WARS stuff for Dark Horse in the 90's and so on. He was a bit of a journeyman inker, working on all sorts of things from the late 70's into the 90's and so on, like some issues of Spider-Man, Darkhawk, Heroes for Hire, the TOPPS Zorro comic, etc.

http://www.comicvine.com/andy-mushynsky/26-28616/

That's basically how my geekness began. That, and watching episodes of SPIDER-MAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS from the play-pen.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Your mum was into comics? That's ****ing bad ass!

 

[Chris Wallace]

Mine would often read my comics after I was done-if she waited that long.

 

[Reikowolf]

my father got me into comics. he had one of the original prints of amazing fantasy 15 before his mom threw it out.

used to buy them for me when we went to the corner store.

 

[Hobgoblin]

I started reading The Batman Adventures after becoming a fan of Batman: The Animated Series.

 

[Chris Wallace]

my father got me into comics. he had one of the original prints of amazing fantasy 15 before his mom threw it out.

used to buy them for me when we went to the corner store.

My dad thinks comics are a waste of time, & has no interest in any superhero other than Superman.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

^^ Wow, I'm quite surprised. Well, to each his own, I guess.