From www.publishersweekly.com, thanks to Andy Mangels
Wolfman Returns for Another Crisis
by Ian Brill -- 1/17/2006
CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS (Novel)
(Apr 2005)
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CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS TP (Novel)
(Mar 2006)
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(excerpt)
PWCW: You've written a Crisis novel and have a Superman Returns novel coming out in June. How is writing superhero stories for novels different than writing them for comics?
MW: In the Crisis novel I had to find a spine and an emotional hook to a story that was not about any one person but about hundreds of characters. Comics like Crisis can be like a tree with branches that go in many directions, but novels can't be. They should be about someone or many someones with a clear storyline. So where the original Crisis comic was about 450 heroes trying to stop a villain operating in all places and all times simultaneously, the novel was about the Flash's experience in the Crisis, focusing on him, his wife and his reactions. I took a huge cosmic story and personalized it, and I think I got a very good companion piece to the original comic. Some of the reactions I've gotten say it's better; others wish their favorite scenes were in it, but I think it would have been folly to have written a novel that simply reiterated the story that was already told as best as George Perez and I were able to. I thought the novel should be able to stand on its own and have a compelling story and reason for it to be a novel instead of another comic.
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