Comic books are definitely culture. It's art and story-telling. They're at least as worthy of the title as any other book they might buy.<p>Sure, broadening their culture horizons would be good, if it was easy to enforce spending it on something you don't currently embrace.<p>I wished, and still wish, I had money that I could justify spending to buy comic books and getting into that.<p>I'm really not a fan of that sensationalist headline, trying to drive up outrage on both sides, ven though it doesn't say whether buying comic books is good or bad in the headline. The article even gives examples of how it can be beneficial, like teenagers buying from comics local shops instead of going online, or buying records locally, but ignores the fact that there's a pandemic that makes it hard to enjoy certain forms of entertainment that are pushed by this program. Overall, I don't think this is great and honest journalism, even if the content itself is interesting.