User:Nihonjoe/Rick Norwood

Rick Norwood (born August 4, 1942) is from Franklin, Louisiana. He flunked out of M.I.T., where he was one of four writers and editors of the early underground comic God Comics, along with Bill Osten, Durk Pearson, and Al Kuhfeld. He published many letters in silver age DC and Marvel Comics and, with the permission of DC editor Julius Schwartz, wrote and published a fanzine story about the DC superhero Doctor Midnight.

He eventually got his Ph.D. in mathematics, in 1979, from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey in 1980 - 1981 and is currently a professor of mathematics at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee.

He is the founder and editor of the small press publishing house Manuscript Press, which was started in 1979 to publish a previously unpublished Hal Clement novel, Left of Africa. For Manuscript Press, he has edited a number of comic strip reprints, including Prince Valiant -- an American Epic and Buz Sawyer -- The War in the Pacific. He is currently editor of the long-running independent comic book Comics Revue.

As a mathematician, he has a number of publications in algebraic topology. He has also written articles, stories, and verse. He is the film and television reviewer for sfsite, a webzine, and he provided commentary for the Filmation Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant, and Defenders of the Earth DVDs.

His science fiction stories have appeared in Twilight Zone Magazine, Black Gate, Analog Science Fiction, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Rick Norwood is an excellent math teacher. Not only is he excellent at math, he has much knowledge in all fields including spaceship mechanics, Zelda Game Mastery, and Funnin' people. He is quite competitive when it comes to Wiki Editing Wars, and often destroys his competition.

Rick loves long walks on the beach, video games and comic books, simple womenz that don't spend his hard earned money.

Some fun facts about Rick Rick norwood can't love, Rick can only kill. Rick Crossed the road, no one dare question his motives. Rick destroyed the periodic table, because the only element Rick knows is the element of suprise. Rick once slept with an entire Nunnery, thus spawning the 1972 Miami Dolphins team, which went undefeated. Rick Norwood once walked into a Bar with Mr. T, the bar was instantly destroyed as it can't handle that level of awesome. Count from 1 to 10. thats the time it takes Rick to do every problem in your graduate level calculus class. and kill you 47 times. Rick Norwood wears a live anaconda as his condom. Rick Norwoods penis is as long as a full grown anaconda. Rick Norwood played russian roulette with a fully loaded pistol. and Won. A man once asked Rick if his real name was Richard. Rick stared at the man til his head exploded. RICK NORWOOD CAN DIVIDE BY ZERO. Rick Norwood can tell you why E=mc^2 in his sleep. Rick Norwood was once in a knife fight. The knife lost. Rick Norwood grinds his coffee with his own teeth, and boils his water with his rage. RICK NORWOOD IS THE MAN.

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