Greg Cox's Inifinite Crisis and Final Crisis

[Greg Cox]

Well Greg I just finished it and once again you've hit right on the mark. I can't fully explain what your adaptions have meant to me (as you might remember I read Identity Crisis while I was recovering from my first foot surgery in 07) without getting gushy and emotional. Like Elliot S. Maggins did with his "Kingdom Come" novelization you manage to make the reader relate to the superheros and make them feel as if they were right there with them among them. In each of your books I get this sense of epic scale and it's a tribute to your skill as a writer as much as was Brad, Geoff, and Grant's original words, along with Greg Ruka and the other contributors to "52".

Which brings me to my next point...do you adapt using the writer's scripts from the mini-series or do you adapt from the trades and add in your own musings and descriptions?

Thanks! I'm really glad you liked those books. Those were all fun but demanding projects.

The way it worked is that DC would send me whatever was available as they became available: advance copies of the scripts, black-and-white xeroes of the art, the finished issues as they were published, and so on. Basically, I was writing the books at the same time that the comics were being produced so I kept checking my mailbox for the latest care package from DC. Often I would end up writing a first draft of a chapter based on an early version of the script, then go back and revise it once I actually saw the art, then revise it again when I saw the color version . . . .

I also peppered the writers and editors with queries and emails. Greg Rucka was particularly helpful with regards to 52 and Batwoman, and Grant Morrison briefed me on FINAL CRISIS once.

True story: Rucka actually told me Batwoman's origin years before it was finally revealed in the comics--on the understanding that he would track me down and kill me if I told anyone!

 

[Admiral_Young]

It must be a very interesting and exciting process then combined with the obvious work load. Great stuff Greg and here's hoping there's yet another Crisis or some kind of adaption still in you in the near future.

 

[Corran Horn]

I enjoy Greg's work on these...particularly since I can't really hunt comics anymore.

I like the DC Universe novels, particularly Helltown. Did they stop these?

 

[Admiral_Young]

I don't think they stopped them...there just haven't been any written. Maybe there will be some announcements at comic con next weekend regarding their literature division if they have one.

 

[Uninvited Ghost]

Sorry to raise this thread from the dead, but I found it in a search engine and registered to these boards just to ask this:

The OP said that he enjoyed Greg Cox's novelization of Identiy Crisis. I can't find it on online stores, it's not listed on his wikipedia entry... has it been written or was the original poster mistaken? He wasn't corrected...

My interest is that I'm enjoying the Graphic Audio adaptions of the Novelization. They don't adapt the graphic novels themselves, for some reason, so I was hoping that there was a novelization of Identity Crisis.

If not, somebody make it happen!

 

[Peak]

I can really, really, really recommend the GraphicAudio-adaptions of these books.

http://www.graphicaudio.net/c-6-dc-comics.aspx

 

[Admiral_Young]

Yeah I listened to the Infinite Crisis audio and thought it was great. Have yet to hear Final Crisis.

 

[Mr Light]

No they're talking about Infinite Crisis, not Identity. Must have been a typo.

 

[Greg Cox]

No they're talking about Infinite Crisis, not Identity. Must have been a typo.

Yep, I novelized Infinite Crisis and Final Crisis, but not Identity Crisis.

As far as I know, there was no novelization of Identity.

 

[Uninvited Ghost]

Any suggestions on how to get DC to have a Greg Cox novelization of Identity Crisis made?

 

[Hound of UIster]

I hope he does a novelization of Blackest Night.

 

[Greg Cox]

Alas, as far as I know, there are no immediate plans to novelize BLACKEST NIGHT . . . .

Although my girlfriend did end up sculpting some of the action figures!

 

[ClayinCA]

Man, I wish they'd let you do Blackest Night. I thought your novelization of Final Crisis was fantastic, right up there with the 52 novel, and the whole time I was reading it, I kept thinking what a great job you'd do with Blackest Night.

Ah well. I guess I'll just have to look forward to your new Trek book instead.

Oh, and by the way, who's your girlfriend?

 

[Greg Cox]

Man, I wish they'd let you do Blackest Night. I thought your novelization of Final Crisis was fantastic, right up there with the 52 novel, and the whole time I was reading it, I kept thinking what a great job you'd do with Blackest Night.

Ah well. I guess I'll just have to look forward to your new Trek book instead.

Oh, and by the way, who's your girlfriend?

That would be Karen Palinko, who is has sculpted dozens of action figures and collectibles for DC Direct.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I wish Greg would be asked to write a Blackest Night novelization. I would buy it in a nano-second.

 

[ClayinCA]

Man, I wish they'd let you do Blackest Night. I thought your novelization of Final Crisis was fantastic, right up there with the 52 novel, and the whole time I was reading it, I kept thinking what a great job you'd do with Blackest Night.

Ah well. I guess I'll just have to look forward to your new Trek book instead.

Oh, and by the way, who's your girlfriend?

That would be Karen Palinko, who is has sculpted dozens of action figures and collectibles for DC Direct.

No kidding?? Wow, I love her work - her sculpt of the Christopher Reeve-as-Superman statue is one of my most prized possessions!

 

[Greg Cox]

Man, I wish they'd let you do Blackest Night. I thought your novelization of Final Crisis was fantastic, right up there with the 52 novel, and the whole time I was reading it, I kept thinking what a great job you'd do with Blackest Night.

Ah well. I guess I'll just have to look forward to your new Trek book instead.

Oh, and by the way, who's your girlfriend?

That would be Karen Palinko, who is has sculpted dozens of action figures and collectibles for DC Direct.

No kidding?? Wow, I love her work - her sculpt of the Christopher Reeve-as-Superman statue is one of my most prized possessions!

Glad you liked it. That was a great piece!

 

[timothy]

are we just talking dc adaption's or all adaption's from comic's ?
Because if we are talking all I would love to see him do star trek infestation or even
trueblood .

 

[Admiral_Young]

The topic is just on DC comics adaptions that Greg has wrote or that we would like to see Greg write in the future.

 

[timothy]

okay then war of supermen . or brightestday .