Comic books teach visual literacy! The ability to decode text and images together is a valuable skill. Also, if you actually want a child to be a reader, don't disparage their choice of reading material.
Josephine "Megalith" RiesmanI don't know who needs to hear this, but... comics, as a medium, is not "easier to read" than prose, and acting like children who prefer comics to prose books are dumbasses is a manifestation of the worst kind of Puritan-work-ethic authoritarianism