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Comic Book Reviews & Related Columns

I've been writing a lot of these for Big Shiny Robot, so I decided to create a database of those I've written here. Comics Reviews: Kick-Ass #5 The Alcoholic (GN) Moon Knight #22 3 by Ed Brubaker Star Wars Underworld: The Yavin Vasillika Storming Paradise #1 Tag and Bink are Dead Beyond Wonderland #1 Thor #10 Ultimate Spider-man #124 A Death in the Family Batman: Prodigal 1985 #3 Officer Down Batman: Haunted Knight A Lonely Place of Dying Batman: Ego Ultimate Origins #2 Batman: Venom Gotham by Gaslight Four Comics Kick-Ass #1 Comic Industry Columns: Why Aren't You Watching Clone Wars? Batman R.I.P.? I doubt it. The Dark Knight Crosses $500 million and Why That's No Big Deal Script Review: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Politics in Comic Books Why Grant Morrison Shouldn't be Writing Batman Right Now. Which Super-hero Should Tom Cruise Play? How to Get Kids to Read Comics #2 How to Get Kids to Read Comics #1 How Batman Could be the Greatest Scripted Drama

A Confession

A Confession By Rick Adams I got my start in journalism when I was fifteen and a sophomore in high school on the school paper. I’m sure you’d all agree that I’ve come a long way since then. But in today’s column, I want to tell you about my first story assignment on that paper. It’s weighed heavy on my mind for a long time and I decided I could no longer continue bringing you stories and opinions until I cleared the air. “But it was a long time ago, and in high school,” some of you might say, but this is truly the most honest thing I can think to do. My editor then was a young man named Alex Gedicks who passed away shortly after his graduation a year later. He was a good editor for a seventeen-year-old kid, fair minded with a flair for what would get students to read papers. It was the knowledge of his skill that made me resent him slightly when he passed down my first story assignment. “400 East,” he told me, “you know the road that leads to the front parking lot to the school?