Comments on: Did You Miss Me? Kenny indulges his inner child with the DFC http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2008/did-you-miss-me-kenny-indulges-his-inner-child-with-the-dfc/ The Best In Sci-Fi & Fantasy, News, Reviews, Graphic Novels, comics and more! Thu, 24 May 2012 20:32:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=1421 By: Flower Singing Man http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2008/did-you-miss-me-kenny-indulges-his-inner-child-with-the-dfc/comment-page-1/#comment-154660 Flower Singing Man Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:58:52 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=7685#comment-154660 My kids love The DFC. My elder child who got into The DFC via The Guardian and being a DFC competition at the launch party. He already was into comics anyway and is an avid book reader with a reading age a few years above his actual age. My younger son hates reading generally and is struggling a bit with his reading. However he loves The DFC and can be found on a Friday in the playroon next to his computer and his beloved LEGO reading the DFC. This alone is worth the £3. I guess children find different ways to get into reading. My eldest son found his way through the Harry Potter and Dark Material books and my youngest through The DFC. I'm not sure the beutifully drawn stories are really the key attraction for the boys yet. They really like the funnies: i.e Vern & Lettuce, Super Animal Adventure Squad and Sausage & Carrott. Monkey Nuts has a wicked childish sense of humour which is slowly developing in the story line and is starting to get a following in our house. The artwork is not as clean and crisp and as easy to follow as the others either. My boys are 7 & 9 and my guess is they get into the stories as they develop. At the moment being a new comic all the stories are developing at the same time so hopefully you'll start to see a different pace to the overall comic i.e stories peaking at different points. As an adult I think The DFC is original and very good. I love the smell of the comic when you open it up. £3 is expensive when you compare it to the Beano (99p) (but its cheap compared to the Dr Who magazine) but its printed on thick paper and you sort of sense you buying a future collectors item. My boys don't care that it doesn't come with a freebie and I hope they refrain from giving away freebie's and just concentrate on the comic. This Friday my boys had to go their grandparents to stay from Thursday to Saturday as we had to go house hunting in a different area. My eldest was really against this idea as it meant he could be home on a Friday afternoon to read The DFC!! Again, worth the £3 just for that comment! Is it a crime against parenting for adults to open The DFC before their children?? My kids love The DFC. My elder child who got into The DFC via The Guardian and being a DFC competition at the launch party. He already was into comics anyway and is an avid book reader with a reading age a few years above his actual age. My younger son hates reading generally and is struggling a bit with his reading. However he loves The DFC and can be found on a Friday in the playroon next to his computer and his beloved LEGO reading the DFC. This alone is worth the £3. I guess children find different ways to get into reading. My eldest son found his way through the Harry Potter and Dark Material books and my youngest through The DFC.

I’m not sure the beutifully drawn stories are really the key attraction for the boys yet. They really like the funnies: i.e Vern & Lettuce, Super Animal Adventure Squad and Sausage & Carrott. Monkey Nuts has a wicked childish sense of humour which is slowly developing in the story line and is starting to get a following in our house. The artwork is not as clean and crisp and as easy to follow as the others either.

My boys are 7 & 9 and my guess is they get into the stories as they develop. At the moment being a new comic all the stories are developing at the same time so hopefully you’ll start to see a different pace to the overall comic i.e stories peaking at different points.

As an adult I think The DFC is original and very good. I love the smell of the comic when you open it up. £3 is expensive when you compare it to the Beano (99p) (but its cheap compared to the Dr Who magazine) but its printed on thick paper and you sort of sense you buying a future collectors item. My boys don’t care that it doesn’t come with a freebie and I hope they refrain from giving away freebie’s and just concentrate on the comic.

This Friday my boys had to go their grandparents to stay from Thursday to Saturday as we had to go house hunting in a different area. My eldest was really against this idea as it meant he could be home on a Friday afternoon to read The DFC!! Again, worth the £3 just for that comment!

Is it a crime against parenting for adults to open The DFC before their children??

]]> By: Mark Kardwell http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2008/did-you-miss-me-kenny-indulges-his-inner-child-with-the-dfc/comment-page-1/#comment-144741 Mark Kardwell Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:19:27 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=7685#comment-144741 This would probably be doing gangbusters if it was available in newsagents: kids (and parents) love Pullman. Done right, this comic would be the natural modern equivalent of THE EAGLE or LOOK AND LEARN: worthy, thoroughly middle-class, and bought by well-intentioned parents for the improvement of their kids. This comic has been hyped so much in THE GUARDIAN (and you don't get much more worthy and middle-class than that) for months now that it's just strange that you can't get a copy from the same venues you buy that newspaper. This distribution model is an experiment I fear won't pay off. This would probably be doing gangbusters if it was available in newsagents: kids (and parents) love Pullman. Done right, this comic would be the natural modern equivalent of THE EAGLE or LOOK AND LEARN: worthy, thoroughly middle-class, and bought by well-intentioned parents for the improvement of their kids. This comic has been hyped so much in THE GUARDIAN (and you don’t get much more worthy and middle-class than that) for months now that it’s just strange that you can’t get a copy from the same venues you buy that newspaper. This distribution model is an experiment I fear won’t pay off.

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