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That really breaks my heart that comic books are resorting to profanity.

Comic books were a big part of my childhood back in the 50's...we didn't have video games, or very much television past Roy Rogers and Howdy Doody...so comic books were a fantasy world escape for us.

It was mostly "Superman", "Superboy", "Action Comics", and "Batman"...but they were only a dime and I would read them over and over until the covers fell off.

I credit my lifelong reading ability and interest in words to comics...I learned a lot of words from them, and when I saw a new word, I was interested enough to look it up in the dictionary.

In our neighborhood we had big "comic book swaps", everyone would bring a double armload of old comics and trade for ones they had not yet read. In some cases, you could trade a good one for something valuable...like a pocket knife.

I can understand that the comic book folks are probably struggling these days with internets, video games, and television to compete with, but, all things have their time to shine and time to leave. If you have to resort to writing dirty words on the blackboard to get attention, you weren't very interesting in the first place.

Comic books were a big part of my childhood back in the 50s, too. And up to the mid 60s, also. Action Comics,The Lone Ranger,Cisco Kid, Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery, Our Army At War,etc. Being a kid was good fun,then, with decent enterntainment in comics, movies, and TV.