She had a point. I was quite the comic book aficionado when I was 13. In fact, neighborhood kids would come to my house to check out my extensive collection because many of their parents wouldn't allow comic books in the house.
By time I was 16, comic books no longer had appeal to me. I had grown up. I also never got into video games except a brief fixation with PacMan and Space Invaders in the early 1980s at the Marine Corp e-club in Camp Pendleton. But I eventually ran out of quarters. An enlisted man only makes so much.
Movies based on comic books never appealed to me. I found the much ballyhooed "Dark Knight" pretty awful and completely not believable. Now a suspension of disbelief is essential to appreciate most movies, but this was just way over the top.
I grew up in 50s/60s and never got into comic books - just too boring.
I was a gifted athlete in many sports, a straight-A student and a Christian at 9.
Not a movie buff but “2001” is one of my all time favorites.
Conversely, the “star wars/star trek” junk is comic books for adults that never matured from childhood.