Antony JohnstonStormbreaker: the Graphic Novel (Alex Rider)

I love well-done graphic novels, and while I'm a much more frequent browser of them than a buyer of them, I had to buy this when I bought the DVD ALEX RIDER: OPERATION STORMBREAKER. Even if this graphic novel had turned out to be average, I think it would've been worth the purchase. As it happens, I think it's top-notch (just as the cover thumbnail intimated to me), and it's the almost-ideal written counterpart to the DVD. The artistic style, while based on manga, still retains more than enough Western characteristics to suit a Western character and a Western literary genre, and the well-written text fills in some details that aren't found in the DVD.Alex Rider (in the graphic novels even more than in the movie and in the novels) resembles a literary alter ego of my own so uncannily that I sometimes think Anthony Horowitz must've been peeking at my notes. In truth, it's obvious that we've been drawing upon the same archetypes independently, only a generation apart (meaning I was doing it twenty years before he was, when I was Alex's age and even younger).

Great novel

I really liked this graphic novel. It came fast, It's about a 14 year old alex, who's uncle has been killed. now he has to find the killer. It's kind of like a teenage james bond story. He gets some really cool stuff from the people his uncle worked for. I don't want to spoil the story, read it. Michelle L.

My rising sixth grade son could not put down Stormbreaker: The Graphic Novel (Alex Rider) and read it in one day. He felt so good about himself, having completed the book effortlessly that he went on to read a more challenging book, Freak, the Mighty, Freak The Mighty (Scholastic Signature). He was even willing to work on the school required book report without protest.

I love this graphic novel version.But when I first saw the cover of this book I was sad! I was on the 7th book (which is Snakehead.) And the cover ruined my imagination of what Alex looked like. So I was sad for 5 minutes. But I still love this book in the origanal and the graphic novel version too.

I am not familiar with the original Alex Rider novels, but these graphic novel adaptations are very exciting and fun to read aloud. I would caution that they are definitely intense and more suitable for 12 and up. I read one with my younger kid and he found them too scary.

I chose this for a student I work with, so we could work on his reading skills with some guidance. This is a student who does not like to read. The graphic novel version appealed to him and we were able to move forward.It is a quality resource.

Good job on the graphic form of stormbreaker.