I`m not being a smartaxx,but if you see the picture that goes with this artical you`ll see what`s wrong with the kids of today.They don`t need to read,they need to get the hell outside and get some exercise and some sun.Those kids look like all they do is lay around inside and read and eat.

Hammer, you aren't the only one who thought the same thing. My 11 year old, who is going through a rather wicked stage, wondered aloud if they'd eaten the books.

At least they won't get melanoma this way.
Didn't see the photo, but I totally agree. Back when I was a kid, after walking to school 20 miles both ways uphill in three feet of snow even in May, I had a Nintendo. I had a handful of games for it but still made it outside to play. We also had three, yes that's right 3 channels to surf, so it was pretty easy to find out there was nothing good on TV. That was on a good day, some days we had one channel with defects but watchable, one with lines, streaks, a ghost, bad color/sound or all of the above, and one with static 24 hours a day every day. Oh, and they turned off the station at like 1:00 A.M. and all you could watch was a test signal with six colors on it and a continuous beep. Boy was I disappointed one night when I woke up at 3 a.m. For some reason, I thought they'd have cartoons on.

I was going somewhere with this, but I've since forgotten. Blasted work, always getting in the way. At least they're reading. Or will comic books rot your brain? I don't remember what crazy lady on TV said about them back then.

We were working by a playground today and it was empty! B-ball courts,tennis courts,ball diamond,football field,everything a kid could want,or,used to want.I commented that when I was a kid(way back in the 1900`s) from the last day of school,I was out of the house before 9am.and gone.The Lancaster Rec Comm opened the playgrounds at 9 and we were there,Wickersham,when it opened.Four square,tether ball,softball,crafts,what ever you wanted to do,it was there.When it closed for lunch,no one went home,we went to the confec across the street and had a real cherry Coke and played pinball til it opened again at 1.When we weren`t there,there were pick up baseball games or football games that lasted for hours.We would go down to the waterworks and fish or swim,then it was home for supper and back out again to romp the neighbor hood playing flashlight tag or hide an go seek,and spin the bottle even got in there once in a while
Those kids in the paper just got done sitting on their butts for the whole school year,GET THEM OUT OF THE HOUSE!!!!!!!! If I was raising my kids now,I`d kick them out in the morning and lock the door!

The sad thing is that this article is OLD news. Graphic novels started reaching popularity in the 1980s with collections of books such as "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and "The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller. Of course, what made these graphic novels interesting was the point that they were written for adults instead of a juvenile audience. However, comic book companies have started bundling even more juvenile series into graphic novel collections. This allowed serious collectors to read the stories without damaging their pristine, first edition comic books.

The popularity of these collections have continued to rise. Partially because they collect stories that were in high demand at the original release so the only way to read those stories was to get the collection. Also, though, these collections proved to be popular and to bring in money to the comic book publishers. (Let's face it. These people do not print graphic novels just to be artistic. Like any other publisher, they are out to make money.)

In fact, the only thing that seems interesting about this story is the fact that these graphic novels are being read by juveniles (young adults, children, whatever term you wish to use). Imagine that, kids reading comic books.