Archive for: small child

Yes, Virginia, There Is A Captain America

Not just a comic book character.

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Dr. Strange! Explained by a Nine-Year-Old

My son explains the appeal of Lee/Ditko’s Dr. Strange — plus fan art!

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Santa Claws Says, “Merry Hannumass!’

Christmas greetings from my boy.

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Marx For Dummies

The books breezes through ten common objections to Marxism, with Eagleton acidly and efficiently dispatching each in turn.

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Perfect Peanuts

After she read him the above from the 1953-54 Fantagraphics Peanuts collection, my son said to my wife, “Yes, that’s right, because people aren’t perfect. Only things are perfect.” To which my wife replied, “Well, actually, things aren’t exactly perfect either. Nothing is really perfect.” So my son thought about that for a second, and [...]

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Spiritual Enlightenment from Peanuts

I was reading the 1963 Fantagraphics Peanuts collection to my son (now on sale!) he’s gotten really into them recently. Anyway, there’s one fantastic series of strips where Linus paints a Biblical mural on the ceiling of Snoopy’s doghouse. In perhaps the best, Linus comments that he isn’t sure what Antiochus Epiphanes of the Maccabee [...]

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