Our Mission

Kids and Comics is committed to educating parents and caregivers. Our Mission is to make a positive difference in the reading habits of children by providing insightful and meaningful reviews of comic books from a variety of publishers. We believe that comic books are a valuable storytelling and educational medium and that adults can better serve their children when they are well informed of what is available for their children.

It would probably surprise a lot of adults that comic books aren’t for kids anymore – if they ever really were (but that’s another discussion). This is not to say that comics are “adult oriented” in the same way that movies can be “adult oriented” – the mainstream comics still do not feature nudity or harsh (by most people’s standards) language. Most comics from the mainstream publishers – DC Comics, Marvel, Dark Horse and others – would likely be rated PG-13 if they were to be compared to American movies.

What the mainstream books lack in nudity or language, they more than make up for in violence. Gone are the days when the worst that Spider-Man would do is punch a purse-stealer in the jaw and tie him up in webs. These days, villains like Venom and Carnage beat Spider-Man to a bloody pulp before our hero summons the strength to fight back and win the day. Comic book icons like Captain America get shot and killed – and whether or not these characters come back from the dead (and they almost all do) is beside the point. In DC’s Infinite Crisis mini-series, Superboy (who was, admittedly, having a really bad day) actually decapitated and ripped the limbs from other characters – with all the blood and gore you’d expect from such actions.

This isn’t something that just came up in the past couple of years, either. In 1988, DC Comics published the death of Jason Todd, the second character to take up the mantle of Robin, the Boy Wonder. Robin was cornered by the Joker and beaten savagely with a crowbar. The Joker left him for dead and detonated a bomb in the warehouse, finishing the job. Batman found the boy’s body and buried him.

About the Kids and Comics Mission

What then, is appropriate reading for kids? And how is “appropriate” defined, anyway? At Kids and Comics, our goal is to provide parents and caregivers with the information needed to make good decisions for themselves. Just as a movie review site geared toward kid entertainment wouldn’t review R-rated movies (or even PG-13, depending on the demographics of the site), Kids and Comics will not review or promote items that are generally inappropriate for kids under the ages of ten to twelve. There will be no blood and gore here. No crowbar beatings. No dismemberment.

Thank you for visiting Kids and Comics. We hope that we can be a valuable resource for you and your family.