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What adults don't always understand is that to a kid, a comic book is like a movie. My Marvel comics took my imagination to other places - other galaxies.

— Angela Bowie

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

— Garth Ennis

I don't think it's a coincidence that comic books appeal so strongly to children. Not that it negates any of their power for adults, but there is something about comics that makes them a perfect storytelling system for children.

— Seth

I was into comic books as a kid.

— Len Wiseman

I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.

— Marc Webb

When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer.

— Seth

I grew up reading comics - mostly Marvel - Doctor Strange was my favourite comic book and has remained my favourite as an adult. It's the only comic book movie property I've ever gone after. I felt uniquely suited to it.

— Scott Derrickson

I never read comics as a kid. I guess I was lazy and watched cartoons instead.

— Kirsten Dunst

I've been a fan of the Marvel Universe since I was a little child.

— Steven Weber

✗Opposing Perspectives

I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.

— Candice Patton

I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.

— Victoria Pratt