LogFAQs > #950478748

Maybe not as nice as you think - as a novelist, Claremont makes a much better comic book writer.





Back when he wrote his first novel, I jumped all over it because I loved him as the writer on X-Men, but I wasn't a huge fan of the book (or its sequel):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Flight_(novel)

That might be because it was relatively hard sci-fi, though, and that's really not my genre of choice.

No clue whether or not the Willow books are any good - I saw them in the bookstore years ago, but I never really bothered picking them up because by that point I'd already been disillusioned with the idea of Claremont as a novelist and because I never really cared about Willow as a setting/story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Moon_(book)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Dawn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Star_(novel)

They're all sequels to the movie, though, so if you do feel like tracking it down to watch it, you might want to hold off on reading too much about the books beforehand.

I suppose if I watched Willow now I might have a different opinion of it (I was 10 when it came out and my tastes in fantasy leaned more towards LotR/Krull/Excalibur/Labyrinth/Neverending Story/etc by that point). The same might apply for The Dark Crystal - no matter how much of a cult hit it might have been for a lot of people from that era (enough so that the nostalgia got it a Netflix series 35 years later, at any rate), I just never got anything out of it.
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