tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post5290776651605897938..comments2024-03-28T07:17:29.768+00:00Comments on STARLOGGED - GEEK MEDIA AGAIN: 1978: THE INCREDIBLE HULK: STALKER FROM THE STARS (Marvel/ Pocket Books)SLOW ROBOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-33537482238774604932015-05-14T19:46:28.151+01:002015-05-14T19:46:28.151+01:00I had a couple that I'd come across in UK seco...I had a couple that I'd come across in UK second hand book shops over the years, but I rounded out my collection via eBay a couple of years back, with several coming from the US.<br /><br />They could be read in a few hours, they're pretty short.<br /><br />I'm always drawn by comic book characters making the jump to prose, but there are few successful examples, in my opinion. John Shirley (screenwriter of the Crow) did a very strong Batman novel called (I think) Dead White around the time of the first Christopher Nolan movie, and I enjoyed Simon Hawke's Batman novel, To Stalk a Specter (from 1989/90). But by and large they tend to miss the mark, neither achieving the sense of action and drama of the comic books, nor the depth of character.<br />KlownKrustyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02951875989078181671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-89635067425685052462015-05-14T08:38:37.938+01:002015-05-14T08:38:37.938+01:00Hi KK.
I'm impressed you have (and read!) all...Hi KK.<br /><br />I'm impressed you have (and read!) all of these! Thanks for the summary (and the correction... now made). Were these sold widely in the UK? I don't remember seeing them at the time and copies seldom seem to surface today.SLOW ROBOThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15891511135128944714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6024401572816020459.post-60348088280124233442015-05-14T07:58:24.727+01:002015-05-14T07:58:24.727+01:00The novel's not great, and the rambling tone o...The novel's not great, and the rambling tone of the conclusion gave me the impression that's where Silva (a Ron Goulart pen name, I think?) took over from the two comic book mainstays.<br /><br />The Marvel Novels series is by and large disappointing. The FF book is quite fun, and the Captain America novel is okay, although the bad guy's plan is pretty unbelievable. The Iron Man and Dr Strange ones have huge sections devoted to retelling the minutiae of the characters' origins, which are well done or tedious depending on your familiarity with them.<br /><br />Perhaps the most interesting are the three (two + a shared billing) Spider-Man novels because they introduce their own continuity and a girlfriend for Peter Parker we never hear of again, as far as I could tell. The books themselves are lousy though, especially the novel that launched the line - Mayhem in Manhattan.<br /><br />One correction for you: the four story anthology features DAREDEVIL alongside the Avengers, X-Men and Hulk. The Jim Shooter-penned Avengers story therein ("This Evil Undying") was later adapted for Avengers #201-202, or thereabouts.KlownKrustyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02951875989078181671noreply@blogger.com