The novel of the film of the comic of the same name

[learnedax]

O god, it burns!

If you dare, pull up Inside This Book. Or don't, you'll be better off; its morass of swirling, turgid prose itself bedecked, with dependant clauses, which were recursive, bombastic, riddled with complexities themselves fraught with abecedarian faux pas so redolent with fault that the benighted, wayward, reader, overcome with revulsion, might find itself hastily perplexed, were abominable.

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[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that is the same Steve Moore who is a friend and sometime co-worker (but not relation) of Alan's? He's done a fair bit of comic-book writing, but not much previous prose, AFAIK. As a comics writer, he was competent, but not especially noteworthy.

ObAnecdote (possibly urban legend): The author of the novelization of Francis Ford Coppola's Bran Stoker's Dracula was sorely disappointed that he didn't get the gig for the follow-up. He really wanted to see the cover blurb: "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein! By the author of Bram Stoker's Dracula."

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Hmm, it seems that it is. Since he seems to be involved with America's Best Comics currently, and Alan seems to loathe the film, I wouldn't have thought writing the novel would be such a wise move. In fact, Wikipedia at least believes that the two of them have a strong history together, making the decision more perplexing.

On the anecdote, I find it amusingly telling that you need to specify Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. The world of popular culture is a strange one.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Well, Alan seems to understand that his own opinions are, shall we say, unusual. And he is definitely in favor of his friends earning money. Indeed, that is the only reason why he didn't immediately quit when Wldstorm was bought out by DC. I haven't heard of any cases of his objecting to *other* people selling out, so long as they had their eyes open when they did. Witness the fact that, rather than just burn the money he is "due" from the movies, he has it given to his collaborators.

OTOH, I do know of one instance where Alan permanently cut off a decades-long friendship with no warning, over something that most bystanders think to have been a pretty minor slight, so who knows?