I finally got the graphic audio of this...and like the previous one it's great, especially the score. I just realized that the title of this thread almost makes it sound like Greg is going through one massively long mid-life crisis! 
Greg Cox's Inifinite Crisis and Final Crisis
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I finally got the graphic audio of this...and like the previous one it's great, especially the score. I just realized that the title of this thread almost makes it sound like Greg is going through one massively long mid-life crisis!
I actually wasn't aware of the Final Crisis novel until I found the GraphicAudio adaptation a few weeks ago. Very impressive, once again. Of course it helps to have good source material for them to work with! I'd love for them to do one of Crisis on Infinite Earths from the novelization, as well as Identity Crisis (has anyone ever novelised that one?) so we'd have the full set. (Has Graphic Audio done Countdown?)
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I still don't have Marv Wolfman's Crisis on Infinite Earths novelization. I've heard bad reviews on it and it was never in Chapters. Identity Crisis has not been novelized yet for whatever reason which is sad because I think it would be great.
I credited Greg earlier in the thread for helping me to understand Final Crisis better (usually get Grant Morrison's work right away but this was a doozy to figure out the first read).
I credited Greg earlier in the thread for helping me to understand Final Crisis better (usually get Grant Morrison's work right away but this was a doozy to figure out the first read).
To give credit where it's due, Grant wrote me a very nice email answering various queries I had. In some cases, I simplified his story, but that was just to make it work as a standalone novel.
^ Grant is one of my writing heroes...that's cool that he was accessible for questions.
Ooooh. That must have been an awesome experience.
Strange but true: I actually had a kidney removed halfway through writing Countdown! I'm assuming the post-kidney chapters don't read any differently!
That explains a few things.
Strange but true: I actually had a kidney removed halfway through writing Countdown! I'm assuming the post-kidney chapters don't read any differently!
That explains a few things.
I promise I wasn't on too many painkillers!
You know, I have no idea. Let me look into that.
I wish I had those when I was trying to read Final Crisis. I've been reading DC Comics since the 70s, but that series was utterly incomprehensible to me. I gave up on it after the fourth issue.
I just finished reading the Final Crisis novelization. I was very disappointed. I thought the "final crisis" was Superman and Batman getting gay-married like on the cover where Superman is carrying Batman across the threshold while the rest of the characters looked on in disapproval... but this never happened! 
But seriously folks...
I did think it was a shame that "Superman Beyond" or maybe "Last Rites" didn't get included, I'm assuming there were space limitations even though it only covered 8 issues. Because if you just read the FC main series (as I did as I read the book), Batman just disappears without explanation from the book and then re-appears without explanation right in Darkseid's chamber, and it's extremely jarring.
But seriously folks...
I did think it was a shame that "Superman Beyond" or maybe "Last Rites" didn't get included, I'm assuming there were space limitations even though it only covered 8 issues. Because if you just read the FC main series (as I did as I read the book), Batman just disappears without explanation from the book and then re-appears without explanation right in Darkseid's chamber, and it's extremely jarring.
Greg has spoken about why certain things are or not included in his novelizations before. Greg would have had to include most of "Batman: RIP" to explain Batman's absence and as you said "Superman Beyond" was too epic to be covered in the restraints Greg most likely had. I think he covered most of the main plot of "Final Crisis" fairly well with the narrative and characters he chose.
But again the problem arises - to which Greg are we to attribute those statements? Earth One Greg? Greg Prime? nuGreg?
I picked up Greg's 52 novelization and his Warehouse 13 book the other day. Not quite sure when I'll get to them.
I just finished reading the Final Crisis novelization. I was very disappointed. I thought the "final crisis" was Superman and Batman getting gay-married like on the cover where Superman is carrying Batman across the threshold while the rest of the characters looked on in disapproval... but this never happened!
But seriously folks...
Hmm. I'm biased, of course, but I thought the Batman thing was pretty clear. He gets captured by Granny Goodness at JLA headquarters, and later turns up as a prisoner at Darkseid's lair.
Granted, I had to lift some material from a BATMAN tie-in issue to explain how he escaped from Darkseid's prison, but I thought that particular storyline flowed fairly smoothly.
The "Superman Beyond" thing was trickier to handle.
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