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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 15, 2016 1:26:03 GMT -5
Duhhh
How could I forget this man?
Max Alan Collins who wrote the fantastic female detective comic Ms Tree, one of my favorites from the 1980s and 90s. Also wrote some Batman comics and a few years doing the Dick Tracy comic strip
Wrote many crime novels on his own as well as teaming up with Mickey Spillane. And, of course, his comic graphic novel was adapted to a well received movie with Tom Hanks.. Road To Perdition
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Post by brutalis on Jul 15, 2016 7:54:07 GMT -5
Chris Claremont wrote 2 series of novels. One fantasy based on the movie Willow and another Science Fiction 3 book series with a female heroine. John Byrne also wrote several books, horror related if i remember correctly. I have 2 of Jim Starlin's buried in a box somewhere.
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Post by tingramretro on Jul 15, 2016 8:17:00 GMT -5
I've read all of Gaiman's prose. Gaiman's one of my favourite authors. Paul Cornell is pretty good, too. |
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Post by MDG on Jul 15, 2016 8:32:26 GMT -5
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jul 15, 2016 8:46:24 GMT -5
Has anyone read any of Alan Moore's prose? He has a new one out called Jerusalem that I'm interested in. Apparently most, if not all, of his prose is tied to his home of Northampton.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 15, 2016 11:16:06 GMT -5
I've got a book called Mindship by "Gerard F. Conway". It's an SF story about interstellar craft that convert human emotional energy to power the ships. I recall liking it.
Also have What Entropy Means To Me by George Alec Effinger, who worked at Marvel long enough to have a cup of coffee. This book was nominated for a Nebula award and is described today as a "cult classic". It's New Wave metafiction, with three intertwined narratives that explore creativity, storytelling, myth-making and memory. I recall liking this one too.
I've never read any Jon Sable comics but I have the prose novel Sable by Mike Grell. It works as a novel; I've always wondered how closely the story resembles the comics.
I also have the Avengers novel by Otto Binder. It's not one of his best. He wasn't a Marvel writer.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 15, 2016 11:38:21 GMT -5
I like the SF work of Christopher Priest. Oh wait! Wrong Christopher Priest!!!  I really enjoyed the Kothar books by Gardner Fox; they read like prose comic-books. (Slam, how can you like Burroughs and dislike these?) By no means "good" books, but certainly "fun to read" books, in my humble opinion. (I re-read them all three years ago, too, and they had aged quite well, except perhaps the final one!) |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 15, 2016 11:41:14 GMT -5
Chris Claremont wrote 2 series of novels. One fantasy based on the movie Willow and another Science Fiction 3 book series with a female heroine. John Byrne also wrote several books, horror related if i remember correctly. I have 2 of Jim Starlin's buried in a box somewhere. I had those Claremont and Byrne paperbacks (yes Byrne's was horror) back in the late 80s/early 90s or so . Never got to read them and chucked them into my comic collection sell-off. George Alec Effinger's main comic work if I recall correctly was Marvel's Gulliver Jones, Warrior Of Mars adaption in Creatures On The Loose |
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Post by berkley on Jul 15, 2016 11:56:42 GMT -5
Has anyone read any of Alan Moore's prose? He has a new one out called Jerusalem that I'm interested in. Apparently most, if not all, of his prose is tied to his home of Northampton. Moore's Voice of the Fire is first rate, the best book by a comics writer that I know of. I'm looking forward to Jerusalem very much, though I hear it's going to be pretty massive. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 15, 2016 11:58:22 GMT -5
I like the SF work of Christopher Priest. Oh wait! Wrong Christopher Priest!!! I really enjoyed the Kothar books by Gardner Fox; they read like prose comic-books. (Slam, how can you like Burroughs and dislike these?) By no means "good" books, but certainly "fun to read" books, in my humble opinion. (I re-read them all three years ago, too, and they had aged quite well, except perhaps the final one!) It's been a long time since I've read Fox's books, but I remember them being distinctly second or third rate S&S. I am a big Burroughs fan. But I also will take him to task when he does something that's either not good (The Eternal Savage) or uninteresting (many of his later books, particularly in the Tarzan series). He probably also gets props from me for doing things first. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 15, 2016 12:02:24 GMT -5
Has anyone read any of Alan Moore's prose? He has a new one out called Jerusalem that I'm interested in. Apparently most, if not all, of his prose is tied to his home of Northampton. Moore's Voice of the Fire is first rate, the best book by a comics writer that I know of. I'm looking forward to Jerusalem very much, though I hear it's going to be pretty massive. Yeah...It is supposed to clock in at 1184 pages. That's a whole lotta book. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jul 15, 2016 12:24:42 GMT -5
Has anyone read any of Alan Moore's prose? He has a new one out called Jerusalem that I'm interested in. Apparently most, if not all, of his prose is tied to his home of Northampton. Moore's Voice of the Fire is first rate, the best book by a comics writer that I know of. I'm looking forward to Jerusalem very much, though I hear it's going to be pretty massive. Moore's From Hell is the best written comic I've ever read, so that makes perfect sense. I think I'm going to pick up both books. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2016 14:37:52 GMT -5
The challenge with Voice of the Fire is the first chapter. It is written from the midnset of a pre-literate human and Moore chooses to use syntax, sentence structure, and diction to try to convey that mindset, making more of the first chapter unintelligible gibberish. I couldn't get through that chapter the first time I tried to read Voice. The second time I just skipped the first chapter altogether.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 15, 2016 14:44:51 GMT -5
Duhhh How could I forget this man? Max Alan Collins who wrote the fantastic female detective comic Ms Tree, one of my favorites from the 1980s and 90s. Also wrote some Batman comics and a few years doing the Dick Tracy comic strip Wrote many crime novels on his own as well as teaming up with Mickey Spillane. And, of course, his comic graphic novel was adapted to a well received movie with Tom Hanks.. Road To Perdition
How the Hell did I miss these two? I love Ms. Tree and Road to Perdition. And I'm a fan of Collins' prose in Quarry and Nate Heller. And Spillane is one of my big influences. Of course he wrote for Timely Comics before hitting it huge with I, the Jury. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 15, 2016 14:55:15 GMT -5
It is written from the midnset of a pre-literate human and Moore chooses to use syntax, sentence structure, and diction to try to convey that mindset, making more of the first chapter unintelligible gibberish. Sounds like half of the exams I must grade! |
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