Greg Cox's Inifinite Crisis and Final Crisis
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^ Which is sad! Perhaps a Selina solo project tie-in for The Dark Knight Rises might be in your future Greg? Hell I'd take any Selina novel for that matter.
The trouble with doing an adaption of "War of the Supermen" is that you'd have to essentially include all of the New Krypton story. I could see it as a large hardcover. It would start with "Last Son" then delve into the World of New Krypton story line, with the last few chapters depicting the Last Stand of New Krypton and War of the Supermen.
War of the Superman would make for a good novel but it is a pretty long story. I'm sure any adaptation would basically focus on the Superman side of the story and barely show Mon-El or Nightwing/Flamebird or Supergirl. I agree you'd have to include Last Son as a prologue.
^ I'd forgotten about the Mon-El/Flamebird/Nightwing stuff. Yeah that would have to be trimmed down or eliminated.
True, but the comic book version of 52 had all kinds of plots and subplots that couldn't be included in the novelization, and Greg was able to extract them and work around their absence so smoothly that I had gotten most of the way through the book before I realized that Ralph Dibny hadn't shown up at all. So I could definitely see him working on such a large tapestry as the New Krypton/War of the Superman story with no trouble (and, as with Final Crisis, vastly improving upon the source material as well).
Yep. The trick to adapting those big, multipart crossover sagas is to be merciless when it comes to trimming subplots and characters. Otherwise the books would have been the size of War and Peace--and I'd probably still be writing them.
To their credit, DC gave me a free hand to streamline those sprawling sagas into self-contained standalone novels.
To their credit, DC gave me a free hand to streamline those sprawling sagas into self-contained standalone novels.
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I just noticed that there is a regular paperback edition of 52 out now. I am particularly fond of Greg's 52 novelization because I read it during my first foot surgery. In fact I've probably mentioned that in this thread or in my original 52 novelization thread. It helped me through a rough recovery, Greg so thanks again! I might have to pick it up even though I have the oversized paperback edition. 
I might have asked this before Greg, but does this mean that we'll eventually get a normal paperback edition of Final Crisis as well?
I might have asked this before Greg, but does this mean that we'll eventually get a normal paperback edition of Final Crisis as well?
I'd look at Denny O'Neill's novelization of Batman: Knightfall fifteen years ago as an example of that. O'Neill streamlined the story immensely, cutting out a great deal of the Jean-Paul side of KnightQuest. Mon-El filling in for Superman was cool, but it's not necessary. Nightwing and Flamebird hunting down the other Kryptonians is probably more relevant.
Though unfortunately that barely factors into the final story, aside from using the corpse of the god thing as a weapon. While I enjoyed the large storyline I was very disappointed with the ending, it was way too fast and anti-climactic.
Also, would it have killed them to have gotten a decent artist on ANY of the books???
Also, would it have killed them to have gotten a decent artist on ANY of the books???
I was also disappointed with the end of War of the Supermen, which seemed designed solely to take all the new toys off the table.
Yes, Mon-El needed to go, for continuity reasons elsewhere. (But he had a good run; I loved the issue where Mon-El went around the world in a single day and saw everything that Earth had to offer.) I loved the Nightwing and Flamebird team, and I hoped that they would remain in some capacity.
Unfortunately, War of the Superman leads me to suspect that Grant Morrison's changes to Batman can be put back into a box when Morrison is done. I didn't think that some of the changes to the Superman mythos could be undone, yet War wiped them all away. I don't know how Morrison's changes to Batman can be wiped away, except that it will probably be as clumsy and as unsatisfying as War of the Supermen was.
Yes, Mon-El needed to go, for continuity reasons elsewhere. (But he had a good run; I loved the issue where Mon-El went around the world in a single day and saw everything that Earth had to offer.) I loved the Nightwing and Flamebird team, and I hoped that they would remain in some capacity.
Unfortunately, War of the Superman leads me to suspect that Grant Morrison's changes to Batman can be put back into a box when Morrison is done. I didn't think that some of the changes to the Superman mythos could be undone, yet War wiped them all away. I don't know how Morrison's changes to Batman can be wiped away, except that it will probably be as clumsy and as unsatisfying as War of the Supermen was.
War of the Supermen suffered from the fact that Geoff Johns wasn't able to realize the epic that he began with Last Sons. James Robinson is a great writer but this really was Johns story from the start and when he left the book without being able to finish his story I believe it hurt the end.
I just noticed that there is a regular paperback edition of 52 out now. I am particularly fond of Greg's 52 novelization because I read it during my first foot surgery. In fact I've probably mentioned that in this thread or in my original 52 novelization thread. It helped me through a rough recovery, Greg so thanks again! I might have to pick it up even though I have the oversized paperback edition.
Thanks! I know how that goes. I'm still grateful to Barbara Hambly for getting me through a hellish train ride many Thanksgivings ago. (Standing-room only all the way from NYC to Baltimore.)
A mass-market paperback edition of my COUNTDOWN novelization comes out in July, so I imagine FINAL CRISIS will be along in 2012 sometime.
^ That sounds great!
I just today learned about these novels, and was wondering if there's been any word for an ebook release for them? I see Countdown available on Amazon as of June 28, 2011, but none of the others. Anybody know if there's a chance for them, especially Infinite and Final Crisis?
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