[IYAS9YAS]

Sure they're different, uh huh :^)

Actually, I think something that a child shouldn't be reading shouldn't be called a comic book. Graphic novel is a good way to describe it.

[discostu]

Not a bad way to distinguish either. Should send that message over to Marvel, might save the industry. One of the sadder things that's gone on in comics is that the brilliant creators that brought the art and writing to a new and amazing level (Frank Miller, Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman being the "big three") are also primarily responsible for killing the industry. I think it's great that we've got comics (graphic novels) for adults, but there's something seriously wrong with the industry having lost the ability to be sold (with a clean conscience) to people between the ages of 5 and 16.