Anyone find these superhero novels that have popped up here and there over the decades really just weird? How much interest is there in comic superheroes without any art? Have any of you actually read any?
>>153142750I don’t get the point. I’ve also never met anyone who actually buys these. I’m tempted to post that one schizo Facebook rant about comic writers trying to crash the industry so that they can publish real books, but I can’t seem to find it…
>>153142750They can be real, but at far as I know, only 3 are actually cannon to the comics (pic not related).However, it is strange when they are written in a way that is bending over backwards to fit in with the current continuity. (pic related)
>>153142750When I was a kid I rented one from the library it was about Batman where Joker gets fucking crushed to death in the gears of something but still shows up alive throughout the story and it turned out to be a series of Joker holographs somebody set up
>>153142750Alex Segura is an industry plant.
Hell, there have been tie-in books forever - I picked this up second-hand years ago and enjoyed it
I also saw this in my lcs years ago - I don't entirely get "why" these exist, but it's interesting to see these characters translated to another medium
>>153145539Yeah they're nothing new. I read 'Batman: The Ultimate Evil' about Batman fighting child trafficking about 30 years ago (when I was probably too young to read it) and it was genuinely really good, took a realistic, grounded approach to Batman doing real investigative techniques to infiltrate a child trafficking operation.
>>153142750https://youtu.be/Y1fA5bQZ1PM?si=TZeCk8viR0xOI6dy this is the first thing I think of when I hear about them
>>153142750Most of the recent Marvel ones are written by YA authors. They're meant to capture the young fan fiction writing audience. I read pic rel and the Loki one. The Loki novel was so clearly written for teen girls, but the Bucky one was passable if you just want an easily digestible expanded universe.
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Huh... I wonder if a storytime of some of these might get people's interest
>>153145810I’d be down to host. Maybe not whole books but a few pages of the funniest shit I can find.
my introduction was the knightfall novelization
I read this one in sixth grade. It was decent because David Michelinie wrote it, but it covers less ground than your average comic story arc from the 90's. Basically the story is that Peter is covering a charity gala for the Bugle (that Jonah is attending) and Carnage crashes the party to do some slaughtering, wasn't particularly gripping but wasn't bad.
>>153145677I remember enjoying the comic adaptation of that when it was storytimed on /co/ some years ago.
Some of these books I consider a canon part of the run they're during>>153145933I honestly think the novelization is better than the 50 comics it condensedHelps that Denny wrote it
>>153145745>I read pic rel and the Loki one.Yeah, I did that one too. They got a writer who wrote exclusively gay historical fiction set in Victorian times, so no one should be surprised that it was about Loki in Victorian times with a gay romance subplot. All things considered, it was better than I would expect. I honestly didn't think someone like that would have the balls to make it so that gay love did NOT win in the end. However, I felt like it would be better if it was a Thor and Loki buddy adventure since the parts with them together were the best.
>>153146125>Helps that Denny wrote itThe ones written by comic writers tend to be a cut above the ones written by prose-only writers that were contracted to write them. Elliot S. Maggin's Superman novel is decent as well.'It's Superman!' By Tom DeHaven is also good, firmly set in Golden Age era 1938.
>>153146125As far as I know, the Spider-Man book that killed Doc Ock is the only book considered to be cannon. He got better eventually, but for a time, the comics were saying Otto was dead with a * saying to read the book to find out what happened.
>>153146234I like that cover
>>153142750In the 90s as a kid I thought the idea of a Batman and Robin story was cool since I felt like I got more insight into what they were thinking than a comic panel could fit and more descriptions about what was going on from their perspective.I can't remember the name or quality of it now though.
