{"id":10396,"date":"2013-06-22T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=10396"},"modified":"2013-06-22T13:43:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T13:43:46","slug":"man-of-steel-the-official-movie-novelization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2013\/06\/22\/man-of-steel-the-official-movie-novelization\/","title":{"rendered":"Man of Steel – the Official Movie Novelization"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Greg Cox<\/b> (Titan Books)
\nISBN: 978-1-78116-599-7 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 E-book edition ISBN: 978-1-78116-600-0<\/p>\n

As you might have noticed, there’s another Superman movie hitting big screens at the moment and, as is the norm, the movie blockbuster comes with all the usual attendant extras.<\/p>\n

Released a week after the premiere of Man of Steel<\/b>, <\/b>the Official Movie Novelization <\/b>recapitulates that tale in an absorbing 320 page paperback – sadly sans any illustrations – for fans of a literary bent, duly expanding the breathtaking visual experience in the adroit, incisive way specialist author Greg Cox has made his own.<\/p>\n

Don’t take my word for it: check his adaptations of films such as the Underworld<\/b> trilogy, Daredevil<\/b>, Ghost Rider<\/b> or The Dark Knight Rises<\/b>, comics series such as Infinite Crisis<\/b>, Countdown<\/b>, Final Crisis<\/b> amongst others, as well as his legion of cult media tie-ins and comics-related books\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Spoiler Alert<\/b>: since almost everybody alive knows the mythos of Superman by now and the whole point of this latest movie is to reinterpret, reinvigorate and reinstate that legend, I’m going to manfully restrain myself from outlining the plot of this engaging prose package in anything but the vaguest detail, in case you haven’t seen the stunning visual tour de force yet.<\/p>\n

Krypton dies and scientific rebels Jor-El<\/i> and Lara Lor-Van<\/i> send their newborn son to another world to escape its destruction. However a goodly portion of film and book concentrate on the fabulous, uncanny and war-torn planet where Jor-El struggles with former friend and desperate terrorist General Zod<\/i> as each strives to preserve Krypton in their diametrically opposed ways, so you won’t be reading about the child of two worlds until chapter seven\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

A ship lands in Kansas, years pass and strange, anonymous miracles occur\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

A young reporter begins to chart these odd occurrences.<\/p>\n

Another star-craft is found, buried millennia-deep in polar ice\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

And one day a ghastly extraterrestrial war-craft comes to Earth, full of deadly super-beings hunting someone called Kal-El\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Full of sly in-joke nods to previous comics, film and TV iterations and littered with those arcane snippets of lore beloved by seasoned fans, this engaging yarn, based on the original screenplay by David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan, adds some depth to the frantic on-screen spectacle and will delight every Superman that loves to curl up with a good book.<\/p>\n