Re: Comic book novelizations (and novels based on comic book character
^Yeah, I re-read that recently after reading a series of columns about PAD's Hulk comic run. I'd had the impression that the novel was written after PAD left the comic and represented what he would've done if he'd stayed, but the chronology doesn't work -- he was still on the title at the time the book was written, and took the comics' storyline beyond the point where the novel occurs.
As for being "What If" stories, I think that all three of Pocket Star's Spider-Man novels (that I know of) -- Down These Mean Streets by Keith R.A. DeCandido, The Darkest Hours by Jim Butcher, and Drowned in Thunder by yours truly -- are consistent with the Spidey comics of the time and with each other, all of them fitting in shortly before Spidey joined the Avengers. They may have been contradicted here and there by new comics, but the whole Spidey continuity's been changed, so maybe that's kind of a moot point. However, my X-Men novel Watchers on the Walls is a "What If," since it has a slight inconsistency or two from the state of the comics at the point where it's set (necessary for the sake of the story).
^Yeah, I re-read that recently after reading a series of columns about PAD's Hulk comic run. I'd had the impression that the novel was written after PAD left the comic and represented what he would've done if he'd stayed, but the chronology doesn't work -- he was still on the title at the time the book was written, and took the comics' storyline beyond the point where the novel occurs.
As for being "What If" stories, I think that all three of Pocket Star's Spider-Man novels (that I know of) -- Down These Mean Streets by Keith R.A. DeCandido, The Darkest Hours by Jim Butcher, and Drowned in Thunder by yours truly -- are consistent with the Spidey comics of the time and with each other, all of them fitting in shortly before Spidey joined the Avengers. They may have been contradicted here and there by new comics, but the whole Spidey continuity's been changed, so maybe that's kind of a moot point. However, my X-Men novel Watchers on the Walls is a "What If," since it has a slight inconsistency or two from the state of the comics at the point where it's set (necessary for the sake of the story).
