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I didn’t even realize that Devin Grayson had a new paperback novel from DC Comics, but she does. It’s called Inheritance, it focuses on the superhero/sidekick relationships of Batman/Robin, Green Arrow/Speedy and Aquaman/Aqualad, and apparently Devin cuts loose with the homoerotic descriptions.
At least, that’s what this lady says.
It sounds downright hilarious.
Huh. Apparently it’s not the only new novel from DC. Alan Grant has one with similar cover art and a similar “three heroes” theme. I hadn’t even heard of this program.
Here are the books I’ve tracked down so far. Anyone know of others from the same novel line?
The Stone King
Superman: The Never Ending Battle
Batman: Dead White
Wonder Woman: Mythos
The Flash: Stop Motion
Green Lantern: Hero’s Quest
DC Universe: Last Sons
DC Universe: Inheritance
Green Lantern: Sleepers, Volume 1
Green Lantern: Sleepers, Volume 2
Green Lantern: Sleepers, Volume 3
Justice League of America: Exterminators
I’ve read many of these. Here’s my unsolicited opinion:
The Stone King: ok, kind of boring
Superman: The Never Ending Battle: good book for a superman fan
Batman: Dead White: I have not read this
Wonder Woman: Mythos: Avoid, inconsistant, generally not well written
The Flash: Stop Motion: best of the Justice League line of novels, Shulz should be given a Flash mini
Green Lantern: Hero’s Quest: an ok book, only for Kyle Rayner fans
DC Universe: Last Sons: for Lobo fans, 85% Lobo, 10% Martian Manhunter, 5% Superman
DC Universe: Inheritance: I’ve not read this yet
Green Lantern: Sleepers, Volume 1: these were from I-books (so they will probably not be in print again), I have not read these
Green Lantern: Sleepers, Volume 2
Green Lantern: Sleepers, Volume 3
Justice League of America: Exterminators: a good, if a little repetitive, book, good use of various league members
Jason Simpson
I’ve read most of these novels and they’re very good. Most are written by either comic book writers or authors used to writing others’ characters. It seems to me that DC is trying to catch up with Marvel’s novel program, something I’m excited to see.
I do not believe there are any other current DC novels outside of your list.
I’ve read all of them except for Batman: Dead White.
The best are The Flash: Stop Motion and Green Lantern: Hero’s Quest.
The GL is the best; it’s Denny O’Neil’s parallel universe take on Kyle Raynor. Kyle the way he should have been done. There’s some interesting concepts here, and O’Neil comments on a few or the the unfortunate aspects of the Kyle years.
The Flash novel is also very good. Wally goes up against a universe hopping “anti-Flash”, and gets help from an alternate very close Flash family member.
The GL Sleeper series is regrettable. I admire Christopher Priest’s writing, but I think that he was presented with too many editorial dictates, and he had to try to make some kind of sense of a storyline connecting Kyle, Alan Scott in WWII, and Hal as a depowered ex-GL Spectre. A mess.