Science fiction promotes interest in science, encourages imaginative and even critical thinking and shows us possibilities we might otherwise never see or even hear of. Science fiction takes you out of this world and into another. It makes you look beyond where you current are and think about new realities.
Evidence and research is stacking up to prove that comic books make their readers smarter. Comics make you want to read, and they use complex language which improves verbal intelligence. Like steroids for the mind, comics can even take struggling readers and make them stronger!
Fantasy literature in general, it holds up to the light a key purpose of fantasy: to ask spiritual or philosophical questions and explore creative approaches to matters of faith and belief, good and bad, right and wrong, and other deeply held, intangible values.
