Last night, I met up with Todd, a friend of mine since High School.  As we parted, he gave me a box of old comic books that he was getting rid of, suggesting that Matthew (son, 11) might like them.  It was a bunch of old-school Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (wherein they were actually bad-ass, not the all goofy like the cartoons), X-Men, Ghost Rider ( Read more... )

We have been trying to get Matthew to read, but it's like pulling teeth. He reads very well, but only when we make him do it at bedtime. He discovered the DIARY OF A WIMPY KID books a few months back and he was reading on his own(!) for an hour at a time(!). But after going through all four of those short books (it's half stick-figure drawings), ( Read more... )

A friend bought us the 3-part Comic "Serenity: Those Left Behind" from our Amazon wishlist.

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