Comments on: On Comics and Prose…

By: Ultra8

Ultra8 — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:56:27 +0000

I’ve read the 52 and Countdown ones and I have to say they were pretty good. Sure they remove some plot points like the Steel vs. Luthor and the Lost in Space arc, but the final fight with giant space moth Mr. Mind had some scenes I would have loved to have seen in the original comic version.
And Countdown actually made sense, ended pretty much the same way, but it made sense.

Though I’ve personally never liked Civil War, this dooes have me tempted to pick up and read.

By: sroman

sroman — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:21:50 +0000

Not an adaptation–it was an original story–but I’ll just leave this here…

http://www.amazon.com/X-Men-Engine-Trilogy-Steven-Roman/dp/0743497740/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324485932&sr=1-3

By: RyanP

RyanP — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:25:11 +0000

I think that Marc Cerasini’s “Wolverine: Weapon X” novel from around 2005 was the last prose adaptation from Marvel. By and large, I have really enjoyed prose adventures of my favorite Marvel and DC heroes. I really enjoyed No Man’s Land, Knightfall, and The Life and Death of Superman as well as Marjorie Liu’s X-Men novel from a few years back.

By: davesnothereman

davesnothereman — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:38:36 +0000

I agree with both matt and ken. and would add that there is an audio version of kingdom come that wasn’t graphic audio, but was quite well done as well.

and ken, i’m actually holding in my hands marvel novel series #9 the marvel superheroes featuring the hulk, the avengers, the x-men and daredevil, edited by len wein and marv wolfman, cover by cockrum. featuring stories by shooter, wein and jo duffy. and mns #10, the avengers in the man who stole tomorrow by david michelinie, cover also by cockrum. this was the the kang one and it was pretty good as i recall.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:53:47 +0000

As a kid and comics fan in the late 70s, I loved the Marvel Novels series featuring Spider-Man, Hulk, the FF, the Avengers (there was another Avengers novel featuring Kang that I regrettably could never my hands on…). All original stories.

Looking back, the quality was pretty middling, though there were some very vivid moments in the Avengers, FF and Spider-Man stories. I still remember a line about Iron Man’s repulsors hitting Ultron “like twin tornados”, and a description of a funny/tender moment involving the Vision breaking down the pollution content of a beautiful sunset for the Scarlet Witch.

Hopefully, they’ll take advantage of the novel form to go beyond the comic itself, provide more back story, build out characters a little more…rather than simply following the story plot beat by plot beat. There’s a real opportunity with Civil War to weave in the main story with the Pulse storyline, etc.

By: Matt Lazorwitz

Matt Lazorwitz — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:28:02 +0000

While I haven’t read the Cox Final Crisis, I did listen to the audio play adaptation produced by Graphic Audio(yes, and audio adaptation of a novel based on a series of comics), and it’s very good. It shaves a lot of the detail and nuance out (all of Superman Beyond for one thing), but it presents a straightforward narrative that works very well, and presents the events of issue 7 in chronological order. While I understand this goes against most of Morrison’s intent, it makes for a fun ride. Graphic Audio has done adaptations of all the Cox novels, and just completed a two part adaptation of the Rucka No Man’s Land novel, and they’re all a lot of fun and worth a look.