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So what are you reading now (Part 4)?

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Just finished Counterstrike: The Last World War by some writer that lurks around here! :) Just dusted off an old Star*Drive novel - On the Verge, by Roland Green I haven't read since it came out ages ago. After that I may get into the Diane Duane Harbinger Trilogy set in the same universe, something to keep me occupied until the Haynes manual comes out.
 
Most of us don't have encyclopedic knowledge of the comic universe, all of the characters, and all of their abilities and relationships. It's much easier to understand a big crossover in prose form than in comic form for the casual reader, especially when there are so many tie-ins being made.
 
Smiley said:
Most of us don't have encyclopedic knowledge of the comic universe, all of the characters, and all of their abilities and relationships. It's much easier to understand a big crossover in prose form than in comic form for the casual reader, especially when there are so many tie-ins being made.
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Exactly. When I wrote those books, I tried to keep in mind an imaginary reader who probably knew who Green Lantern and Catwoman were, but who hadn't read the previous fifteen issues of TEEN TITANS and JUSTICE SOCIETY . . . .
 
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Greg Cox said:
Another thought. These days there are probably lots of people who know SPIDER-MAN and BATMAN from the movies, but have never gotten into the habit of reading actual comics. So if they see an IRON MAN novel at the bookstore or airport, they may pick it up because they like the movies . . ..
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That was the case with me... well, that and the fact that they were written by CLB (X-Men: Watchers on the Wall) and David Mack (Wolverine: Road of Bones).
 
Smiley said:
Most of us don't have encyclopedic knowledge of the comic universe, all of the characters, and all of their abilities and relationships. It's much easier to understand a big crossover in prose form than in comic form for the casual reader, especially when there are so many tie-ins being made.
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Wouldn't the trade paperbacks of the comics serve the same purpose? They usually don't feature every single issue associated with a storyline, but they combine all of the relevant issues into one (or more) books.
 
I started reading Can'tLit: Fearless Fiction from Broken Pencil Magazine, an anthology of Canadian short stories, but then I picked up a copy of this:

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I'll be starting this very shortly.
 
Xenu Cruise said:
Wouldn't the trade paperbacks of the comics serve the same purpose? They usually don't feature every single issue associated with a storyline, but they combine all of the relevant issues into one (or more) books.
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Same purpose, different audience. Some people read both novels and comics, but many read just one or the other.

For decades, movies have had both novelizations and comic-book adaptations simultaneously, and they both sell. Because they're fulfilling the same function for different audiences with different reading preferences. And just as there are people who'd both see the movie and buy the novel, so there are people who'd want to own both versions of the adaptation, out of an interest in seeing how they approach the material differently or simply out of completism.
 
Xenu Cruise said:
Smiley said:
Most of us don't have encyclopedic knowledge of the comic universe, all of the characters, and all of their abilities and relationships. It's much easier to understand a big crossover in prose form than in comic form for the casual reader, especially when there are so many tie-ins being made.
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Wouldn't the trade paperbacks of the comics serve the same purpose? They usually don't feature every single issue associated with a storyline, but they combine all of the relevant issues into one (or more) books.
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But the actual comics, as collected in the trades, are written for people who have been following the comic for years. They don't stop to explain who Lagoon Boy is, or what Raven's powers are. They pick up where the previous installment left off and flow directly into the following collection.

I nip and tuck, edit and streamline, so the novels work as standalone stories, with beginnings, middle, and ends. In theory, you don't need to have read the previous six issues to understand what is happening in Chapter One . . ..

Plus, as Christopher says, there are plenty of people who just prefer prose to the comic format. They just want to read a good IRON MAN story, without all those strange word balloons and panels and things . . .
 
Steve Roby said:
I started reading Can'tLit: Fearless Fiction from Broken Pencil Magazine, an anthology of Canadian short stories, but then I picked up a copy of this:

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I'll be starting this very shortly.
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"They Thought Space Was the Final Frontier--They Were Wrong"

:guffaw::guffaw::guffaw:
 
Last night I read my very first Capt. America Comic, Out of Time part 1. I liked it alot.
 
I finished The Unhappy Ones yesterday. I'm now reading Freedom Angst, the Lust/Mirror Universe story from Seven Deadly Sins.
 
I recently started reading the Star Trek novels. I began with New Frontiers 1 and really liked the characters. Yet, when I tried NF2, the things that I disliked -- the prose and the uninteresting first mission -- outweighed the characterization. Then I moved to books 1 & 2 of the Titan series. Now I have skipped forward to the Destiny trilogy.
 
Steve Roby said:
I started reading Can'tLit: Fearless Fiction from Broken Pencil Magazine, an anthology of Canadian short stories, but then I picked up a copy of this:

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I'll be starting this very shortly.
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Okay, I have to get my hands on one of those . . . .
 
FWIW, I enjoyed it. Pretty standard zombie movie plot, but a fair amount of humour (much of it Trek-related) and an original idea or two.
 
I finished Stargate: Rebellion, and really enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to reading the other three at some point.
I only ever found out about the "Stargate R's" after reading an SG-1 hater going on about how they're the "true" continuation of the movie somewhere online (the books are apparently based on Emmerich's notes made while developing the film, which the SG-1 people chose to ignore). The flaw with that is the book isn't entirely consistant with the movie itself - Daniel didn't find the StarGate (yes, they spell it like that), O'Neil isn't a marine, O'Neil's son wasn't called Jack Jr, you can't fit whole trucks and bulldozers though the Stargate and Daniel isn't blonde.
 
I'm reading a novel called The Malacca Straits by Don Brown a very tesne on the edge of your seat military thriller.
 
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