|
|
Post by Cei-U! on Jun 11, 2019 9:45:52 GMT -5
Buy the Binder Avengers novel if you must but, for heaven's sake, don't read it. Tt's beyond awful, it's downright painful. Binder actually devotes an entire paragraph apiece to describing the heroes' costumes, and those are some of the less tedious passages. Binder by this point was either off his game or hacking it out for a paycheck, because it's hard to otherwise reconcile this swill with his brilliant Adam Link novels of the '30s (which I own a paperback collection of).
I have no firsthand knowledge of the Cap novel, but I'm told it's much, much better.
Cei-U!
I summon the warning!
|
|
|
|
Post by codystarbuck on Jun 11, 2019 10:45:12 GMT -5
List is incomplete. There was more than one Blondie book. Gotta love wikipedia. It's supposed to be a list of books, based on comics; yet, it includes the Varley-edited Superheroes anthology, which had no connection to any comic property. It was just a prose collection of superhero stories. By that token, you could add Robert Mayer's Superfolks, Austin Grossman's Soon I Will Be Invincible, and the Wild Cards series. hence the disclaimer, it's wikipedia. With anything there it's caveat emptor, but it is a good starting point if you are trying to find out what's out there for prose novels-not the be all and all list, but a good starting point. -M No, it's a decent list; though it reminds me why I kind of stopped trying to read all of these things. Too many were big disappointments. I picked up those Batman books that followed the Burton movies. With the Greenberg anthologies, I usually only liked one or two stories. The novels really did nothing for me. I didn't dive too deeply into the Marvel ones, due to that; but, the Peter David Hulk novels was pretty decent. he better understood than most how to translate the comic book stories into a prose form. The Isabella & Ingersol Captain America was okay; but too metaphorical and lacking energy. I don't really think of a trial as an exciting Captain America story. I had high hopes for the Will Murray nick Fury book; but, was sorely underwhelmed. I wanted more Wahoo Steranko mayhem and got a lot of ESP shenanigans. I heard Greg Cox's books were decent. Thos Flash Gordon books, from the 80s, were also disappointing. The movie novelization is great and expands the script quite well; but, the Tempo books were comic strip reprints of the non-Mongo stories. Not too many were clamoring for that. I certainly wasn't. The Ace Phantom novels are great little adventures, mostly adapting comic strip storylines. Ron Goulart did a chunk of them. The first, The Ghost Who Walks, is a pretty good encapsulation of the history of the Phantom, up to Kit Walker, and has been reprinted by Hermes (thy are most of the way through reprinting the original series). |
|
