Polite Dissent

There’s a healthy discussion of my Sense of Wonder post over at Thought Balloons, and I look forward to Shane’s thoughts when he promises to join the discussion this weekend.

I think there are some people who are missing the point of my post, however. While to some extent I am bemoaning the loss of the wonder I once felt, the post is more about the future. What can we do to get today’s kids to feel that same sense of wonder? What changes need to be made?

I’m not suggesting ways to “save” the comic book industry as a whole, but instead speculating on the best way to bring young new readers to the hobby.

Yes, I’d love to feel that sense of wonder again. A very few books (both super-hero and non-super-hero) bring back some of that feeling. I accept that times have changed; I’m not the kid I was 20 (or more, ahem ahem) years ago. I would just like my nephews and nieces and their friends to grow up loving comics like I did.