# A good graphic novel for a 10 year old boy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 29, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-graphic-novel-for-a-10-year-old-boy/604495 "2011-11-29T20:43:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-graphic-novel-for-a-10-year-old-boy/604495/21 "2011-12-01T00:29:49Z")
Usagi Yojimbo - absolutely the best, but there is violence and death. **Attacklad** is very into these. Zeus & Hera etc. are good, but there’s not a lot of them. Lucky Luke is good, and Alex Rider. Uncle Scrooge is excellent, and there’s no way it’s too young for him. My father, who was a marine in WW2, Korean and Viet Nam was a big Scrooge fan, and so am I, today. Pick up the Rosa ‘Life of Scrooge’, although Barks is the best. \* Hellboy\* isn’t pitched at the 11 year old set, but **Attacklad** is a big fan. I suspect that it is at the upper limit of his violent and spooky range. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-graphic-novel-for-a-10-year-old-boy/604495/22 "2011-12-01T02:34:17Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Usagi Yojimbo - absolutely the best, but there is violence and death. **Attacklad** is very into these. Oowww… I hadn’t considered getting these for Alex… hmmm… what a good excuse for buying Usagi… _excellent_… \ 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-graphic-novel-for-a-10-year-old-boy/604495/23 "2011-12-01T03:42:44Z")
How about [PS 238](http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/buystuff/dgstore.htm)? It’s about an elementary school for metahuman children. The world is nearly as rich as anything Marvel or DC has to offer, except actually, you know, self-consistent. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-graphic-novel-for-a-10-year-old-boy/604495/24 "2011-12-01T03:52:49Z")
How about the Groo books by Sergio Aragones? ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-graphic-novel-for-a-10-year-old-boy/604495/25 "2011-12-01T05:51:06Z")
[Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil](http://www.amazon.com/Shazam-Monster-Society-Jeff-Smith/dp/1401214665) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-graphic-novel-for-a-10-year-old-boy/604495/26 "2011-12-01T07:03:18Z")
Thirding the _Tintin_ and _Asterix_, those are what I read as a kid. Then again, I also read _2000AD_ and _House of Mystery_, so I might not be a good standard 🙂 But in that vein - not exactly a graphic novel, but the UK comics Annuals used to be a Christmas tradition for us - _Beano_ and _Dandy_ and _Eagle_ (the last one is defunct - pity, it had _Dan Dare_). We also got the weeklies, but the Annuals were awesome. Marvel and DC also put out trade paperback collections of the original runs of their iconic characters. It’s a good way to get kids into them _before_ they get jaded by the re-imaginings and the like. ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-graphic-novel-for-a-10-year-old-boy/604495/27 "2011-12-02T19:24:02Z")
Oh wow. These are great. I keep forgetting about PS 238. We’ve put Amulet and Usagi on his Christmas list. Now I’m starting a list for his birthday. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-graphic-novel-for-a-10-year-old-boy/604495/28 "2011-12-02T20:08:41Z")
> [@Ceejaytee](#): > > Oh wow. These are great. I keep forgetting about PS 238. We’ve put Amulet and Usagi on his Christmas list. Now I’m starting a list for his birthday. 🙂 Make sure you don’t hog the\* Usagi\* like I do. ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-graphic-novel-for-a-10-year-old-boy/604495/29 "2011-12-02T20:27:05Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > Make sure you don’t hog the\* Usagi\* like I do. The really hard part will be keeping them from my husband. ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-graphic-novel-for-a-10-year-old-boy/604495/30 "2011-12-02T20:59:41Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Uncle Scrooge is excellent, and there’s no way it’s too young for him. My father, who was a marine in WW2, Korean and Viet Nam was a big Scrooge fan, and so am I, today. Pick up the Rosa ‘Life of Scrooge’, although Barks is the best. I totally agree, but at around that age, you become ‘too cool’ for ‘kids stuff’ like Disney comics and can’t see past the ‘kiddie’ Disney characters to the awesome stories inside. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-graphic-novel-for-a-10-year-old-boy/604495/31 "2011-12-02T23:08:23Z")
I keep coming by this thread and thinking I should mention [Digger](http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=3) :“A wombat. A dead god. A very _peculiar_ epic.” I think a 10-year-old might miss a lot of the depth of character and how amazing some of the artwork is, but it’s a great adventure even without that. Reading it online is easiest, but [this page](https://www.sofawolf.com/shop/graphic-novels) has all six volumes for $15 each. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-graphic-novel-for-a-10-year-old-boy/604495.md?page=1)