By Jerry Ordway – When COMBO asked me to do one of these “Recommended Reading” columns, I started to think back to all of the books I read as a kid which had some impact on me. The list turned out to be somewhat short, as I spent most of my childhood playing sports with my brother Joel and our friends. The time left over was filled by learning to draw, and reading (mostly) Marvel comics. Books were something you read in school, after all. Oh, sure, on occasion, I’d find myself enjoying a book-report book, like The Adventures of Lewis and Clark [Is Clark cheating on Lois already?—ed.], but…