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Educator Open House at World of Coca-Cola, Georgia Aquarium & more, Aug. 27

Teachers, or educators as they’re sometimes called, rock. I was a teacher for a couple of years and it’s a great profession that is incredibly rewarding on lots of levels. Teachers, and a guest, can receive free entry to World of Coca-Cola, Georgia Aquarium and Center for Civil and Human Rights on Saturday, August 27 from 8a.m. to 12 p.m as part of their Educator Open House. For teachers this is great because it’s free, might inspire some great teaching classes and is local.

Well, it’s local if you’re a teacher in the Atlanta area. This offer is also open to home school teachers. If you’re a home school teacher in the Atlanta area just go through the same link to reserve your two passes, just bring your letter of intent also.

There is a limit to how many teachers can take advantage of the Educator Open House, so act quickly. Additional guests will need to purchase tickets to whichever attraction that they want to enter. Between Georgia Aquarium, World of Coca-Cola and Center for Civil and Human Rights there are dozens of potential lessons that teachers can cull from. Some of those attractions also have specially discounted tickets for home school students, but inquire at each one for their specific policy.

Origin stories from Capstone fill the young reader superhero void

Spoiler alert, we like to read and want kids to start reading at an early age. Key to that happening is finding subjects that they actually want to read about. For some that topic matter is undeniable going to be superheroes, like Batman, Superman, Green Lantern or Wonder Woman. Certainly there are some all age comic books that have those characters in them; but those comics helps further their interest in reading, but may not be at a level for early readers. Capstone has a series of origin stories that feature Batman, Superman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman designed fill that superhero void.

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Looney Tunes #232, classic characters, great all age comic

Looney Tunes from DC Comics is a template of what a great all age comic should be. Take out the aspect that it’s a classic character and the series still succeeds based on variety of stories, their length, style of humor and pricing. When you add in the fact the Looney Tunes continues the comic book adventures of Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck and others it cements the fact that this is one of the go-to comic books that you need to consider for your young reader.

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All age comic books for August 10

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Did you check out the podcast? Look just above these lines, we’ll wait here….that’s the podcast that highlights the top 9 all age comic books this week. If you have any input, things you liked or comics we should feature please let us know. Now, let’s laugh. There are some funny all age comics out this week including a $1 My Little Pony, Adventure Time, Invader Zim and the classic Popeye.

Flintstones #2 is out too, but its description doesn’t look funny. Have you read this comic book yet? If so please let us know your thoughts. Otherwise this a semi-realistic tale about stone age nostalgia doesn’t sound like something the kids want to read.

Superheroes have The Lone Ranger/Green Hornet for old soul young readers, Spidey trade paperback that collects issues 1-6 and The Rocketeer at War.

There is a Doctor Who book for every preference this week and ours is Doctor Who Supremacy of the Cybermen. This collects lots of doctors who are doing their best to prevent a Cybermen new war and assist in an ancient alien war. The show might be too much for young kids, but the Doctor Who comic from Titan is age appropriate for all age comic books. Young readers will love the action and science fiction and their only difficulty will be in fully understanding the vocabulary.

Jim Henson Labyrinth 30^th Anniversary Special collects previously uncollected stories from Free Comic Book Day and lots of other tales too. Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy #3 is also a great crossover mini-series that young readers 9 and up will like. It’s got the wit, charm and weirdness of Lumberjanes and throws in the slightly more realistic fun of Gotham Academy.

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Ghoul Scouts, Night of the Unliving Undead #3 review

It’s tough to be a kid who is into the undead. Even our 4 year old knows about zombies, despite the fact that he has never seen anything close to them on television. The closest he’s probably gotten is Scooby Doo where a ‘zombie’ attacks the gang but is promptly outed as an angry tenant wearing a mask. Ghoul Scouts, Night of the Unlving Undead is a clever comic for young readers that helps satisfy their zombie curiosity while providing some lessons to live by too.

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Suicide Squad review-not the end of DC in film, but not Super either

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There are many ways to approach a Suicide Squad review. Is this late summer popcorn fare, the redemption of DC Comics in film or a combination of them and other angles? Suicide Squad is a group of villains from the DC Comics lineup who are doing good deeds under duress in exchange for getting time removed from their jail sentences. In a nutshell, Suicide Squad is not the horrid mess that some make it out to be, nor is it the savior that DC was looking for.

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Bedtime For Batman, a super good night book for 7 and under

Our criteria for a great good night book is that it has big pictures, is short enough to re-read if you need to and is interesting enough for young kids. Using our qualifiers there has not been a good night superhero book for the younger ages until now. Bedtime For Batman has bright, big art featuring the caped crusader and his parallel tract with a 4 year old boy who is preparing for bed.

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All age comic books for August 3, 2016

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Happy #NCBD and this week’s new all age comic books offer something for every reader. Let’s start with the price point reader and there are two great comic books that only cost $2.99, Looney Tunes and Batman 66’ Meets Steed and Mrs. Peel, #2 (of 6) are both from DC Comics. They’re also fun comics with well established names, so it’s a great entry point for those reluctant readers.

In humor comics kids will want to check out Dreamworks Classics with Shrek and Madagascar, Regular Show #38, Mickey Mouse Shadow of Colossus trade paperback or the Sonic the Hedgehog trade paperback, Waves of Change.

Superhero has a nice Avengers title from Marvel Comics, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Amazing Adventures and a turtle title for advanced fans that retails for $28 that lists all of their villains. Older readers, 10 and up might want to check out Torchwood. This is a comic book based on the fabulous show that is also written by John Barrowman, who played Captain Jack in the series. Barrowman is also an accomplished writer and appearing at Dragon Con 2016 too.

In science fiction a trade paperback that we’re excited about is Bera the One Headed Troll. It’s from :01 First Second books and is the story about a troll that finds a human baby in the realm of the trolls. She doesn’t want to hurt the baby, but the same can’t be said for the other trolls. The art in the book from Eric Orchard looks great, is really creative and trollish, without being scary for younger kids to qualify as an all ages comic book, or graphic novel in this case.

Kids 9 and up that dig zombie tales will want to discover Ghoul Scouts Night of the Unliving Undead, #3. This is the story of a group of kids trying to figure out the mystery of a zombie outbreak in town. It’s kid friendly, rated E from Action Lab and is just the thing that’ll appease their Walking Dead curiosity.

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