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).
Rating: 5 / 5

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.
Rating: 4 / 5

I teach junior high students. I had a lot of kids read the novel version who also liked the graphic novel. Also, this book was good for bridging kids from graphic stories to other kinds of text.
Rating: 5 / 5