Comic Book History?

I went to Duluth with my dad today, he had a doctor's appointment and I had to stop at UWS to pick up some school books. I totally broke the diet and had chicken nuggets and fries and a huge thing of diet coke for lunch. With a side of ketchup (though it did rain all day long so there was water). I did some comparing and found I could get most of my books cheaper on Amazon so I only got four of them from the book store. Surprisingly one of the books I got for history is a comic book, sorry, a "graphic novel". Who new? And just think of all those mother's who rag on their kids and tell them they can't read comic books and play video games and have it count for school. Apparently they can (I saw a special on t.v. about people who play video games for a living like pro sports people). Of course, this whole thing could also be an exercise in the dumming down of the education system so that nobody gets left behind, no matter what their elementary reading level happens to be. My dad blames the liberals. I blame karma. After carrying around the complete works of william shakespeare in one volume all of last year (talk about a workout), I figure it's about time I get to do a little light reading.