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Question about "Real Books"

I've had this discussion with a friend before. Do comic books count as "real books", like actual book reading? Can a person say I've been reading a book without needing to clarify that it's a comic book? Do you think reading comic books qualifies as actually reading a book?

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Comic books, seems the answer is right in the word. Obviously a highly visual medium, a bit like picture books, but not since the content is far different. I had read comics from a young age. The myth was that I taught myself to read on their fair prior to going to school. They certainly expanded my mind and while much of my childhood comics revolved around superheros, Batman and Spider-Man being primary, others were involved as well, like the Phantom Stranger which in its own way introduced me to Judeo-Christian concepts. The early seventies was an interesting time to be growing up. The world in the US was having a significant cultural shift after the 60s. Comics actually mirrored some of these changes. While it was a world of fantasy, there were elements of the real world in them, like the setting of many Marvel comics being New York City and all its various locations. So geography, history, sociology, politics, science, business, issues like alcoholism in Iron Man, responsibility in Spider-Man many of these these I was exposed to in comics and then I deepened my learning elsewhere. Not bad for some things thought to be cartoons. Like any other source of entertainment, the medium is an introduction that causes you to strive to learn more elsewhere. If that is not educational and learning, I am not sure what would constitute it. So yes my dear reader, comic books do qualify as books. Book is right there after comic. Whether you reveal you are reading them or not or qualify that I think talking about the ideas revealed in them is much more important that the fact you have four color separation (yes it's an old method, bear with me) rather than merely black and white as the medium to transfer those ideas. To quote Stan the Man Lee, Excelsior!

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Eli
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I think they fall into a fantasy category [that] can still stimulate your mind and reveal your imaginative side.

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Sarah
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I would absolutely role my eyes if someone excitedly told me they were reading this really intriguing fantasy and sci-fi type book about genetically modified humans and the struggle they face being treated as second class humans, or worse, despite the fact that many choose to use their ability to maintain balance and protect normal citizens.... And they tell me they're on "book" 74 of X-Men. 😆 IMO, it's the difference between watching a TV series on TBS/CBS/NBC/ABC or watching one on Nickelodeon/Cartoon Network/Boomerang. They both have their entertainment value, are great past times, and one shouldn't be more embarrassed to watch shows (read books) from one network or another, but they are distinctly different from each other.

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