Me and my husband happened to sit next to a father and son at a restaurant the other day. The dad was reading comics on his iPad, and the 9-year-old boy was quite a fan of the X-Men. Here, in a nutshell, is the chain of events that led to both currently reading comics.
The father, a school-teacher, used to read comic books when he was a kid. You would think that it was he who introduced comics to his son. But no: