Curiosity killed the cat

I've just started reading Dracula for the first time in my life. Surprisingly I never read it when I was in high school, and I wanted to now. So far, it is very good and I am very impressed. I know that it is a young adult story, but I have always wanted to read it. Also I'm curious to know how is it that comic books can be sometimes the most insightful things in the world? I was reading from a collection of "Zits" comic books I have and in them the characters talk about the book "Ivanhoe" and insightful inquiries. Sometimes I must admit that I am baffled at how incredibly amazing some of these can be. Comics give us more than an escape, but also give us a time to think and reflect upon the real world.Take the Simpson's for example. In the cartoon, they cover many different forms of life. They range from religion, history, english, science, politics, etc. I find it amazing that all these things can be related into cartoon form and done so well. I applaud all the writer's of the show because it takes a lot of knowledge to be able to make that work, and do it for weeks on end every year. Plus another aspect is that all the characters in the Simpson family represent a different genre in society. I do believe that Springfield at times is a reflection of us all in our daily lives and we can relate to one of the characters sometime in our life. Along with Dracula, I'm going to read "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for the first time as well. I have always wanted to do so because it dealt with history. But more so now because this was, to use a cliche, the straw that broke the camel's back to start the Civil War (per se). I haven't started reading it yet, but I hear that it again was also read by some in high school. I do wonder sometimes if I was gypped out of not being able to read these stories in high school. Of course, I did read some classics, "Red Badge of Courage", "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "Heart of Darkness", "King Lear", "Catcher in the Rye", "Jane Eyre", "Hiroshima", "The Great Gatsby", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "The Count of Monte Cristo", and "Jane Eyre". I wish I could have read them because it would have been interesting to have a class discussion on them and see other people's opinions on them.