SpongeBob Comics is the all ages bridge to life under the sea

SpongeBob Comics is a great all ages comic for a couple of reasons.  In this case take all ages with a grain of salt and compare it to the cartoon.  We have a three year old, he’s too young for the comic and the television show.  Our five year old has seen the show a couple times with his cousins, but it’s not something that we’d seek out for him to watch by himself.  But because he likes the character, SpongeBob, this comic book is a great meeting point for him.

He’s just a bit too young for the show, but knows that most of his older cousins watch it and thinks that all of his friends watch it.  Since he likes comic books this is a great chance for him to learn about the characters and practice reading new words without the sass or attitude of the tv show.

I feel like an old man.  I just wrote ‘sass’ as a descriptive element about SpongeBob Squarepants.   Now let me tell you about how I walked to school, uphill both ways.

Parents, you know what I mean don’t you?  The same thing that an eight or nine year old says is entirely out of place if a five year old says it.  We love some SpongeBob, but the attitude of the tv show is a little much now for our world now.

But the comic….if you take out the voiceover work and physical humor the comic is great fun for all ages.  The print is larger than average so young (or aging….) eyes can easily read it.  There are some new words that they’ll learn but all of them are appropriate for any age.

The art is also very fun.  It’s in the same vein as the animation from the show.   There are couple instances where it’s a photo of a real object in the same panel with the cartoon characters.  This is a fun way to shake things up that our five year old really enjoyed too.

SpongeBob Comics has a couple short stories, one long story and a couple one page comic strips.  This all age comic book was much better than I expected.  The art, brevity and speed of the stories make it very fun to flip through.  It’s from Bongo Comics, the same folks that bring you The Simpsons comic books.