By Andrew A. Smith
Scripps Howard News Service
The teetering tower of review copies has yielded a bumper crop of historical goodness. Let’s take a look chronologically:
* Taxes, the Tea Party, and Those Revolting Rebels (NBM, $14.99) is a history textbook disguised as a graphic novel, much along the lines of Larry Gonick’s Cartoon History of the Universe and Michael Goodwin’s Economix: How Our Economy Works…
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Andrew A. Smith
Scripps Howard News Service
Sept. 18, 2012: Can a faithful movie adaptation of Judge Dredd be made?
One reason I ask this question is because the last one missed the mark so badly. (That was Judge Dredd, made in 1995 and starring Sylvester Stallone.) Another is that I’m not sure a faithful adaptation could work on the big screen, and maybe it shouldn’t be tried.
That’s because…
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Back on the Couch
Bat-Therapy, Part 2
(Editor's note: Last issue, The Captain began his interview with Robin S. Rosenberg, PhD, a psychotherapist, textbook writer, book author, lecturer, and the author of What's the Matter with Batman? An Unauthorized Look Under the Mask of the Caped Crusader. She is also series editor of…
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Succesful Series and Starts Equals Sales Surge
DC's The New 52: One Year Later
By Andrew A. Smith
Contributing editor
The launch of DC’s “The New 52” in September 2011 was a huge gamble, and a huge controversy. Arguments will rage on about various aspects of The New 52 until we’re all old and gray,…
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Andrew A. Smith
Scripps Howard News Service
Sept. 4, 2012 -- Michael Goodwin hasn’t just written a great graphic novel – he’s written one that should be required for every school, newsroom and library in America.
Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn’t Work) in Words and Pictures (Abrams ComicArts, $19.95) condenses and explains how modern economies work, from roughly the beginning of capitalism to the present. In…
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