Jsa Novel, can anyone explain this.

[spidervenom]

I saw this on barnes and nobles web site; By Paul Kupperberg and Geoff Johns?

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Justice-Society-of-America/Paul-Kupperberg/e/9781596873469/?itm=5

[Michael P]

What's to explain? Looks like there's an original JSA novel coming out in September.

[Stressfactor]

Oh sweet Jesus, FINALLY!! Hahahahahaha... FINALLY!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!


Actually I DO know the backstory behind this... and it goes waaaaayyyy the hell back....

Do you remember indie publisher Byron Preiss and his company iBooks? Preiss had a sweet deal going with DC Comics publishing original novels. They started out with the three book Green Lantern: Sleepers series. Each book was written by Christopher Priest and featured a different Green Lantern -- Alan Scott, Kyle Raynor and Hal Jordan (although at the time Jordan was still the Spectre, they managed to work it so that he became alive and a GL again for a brief period of time). All three books were held together with a through plot although they could also be read on their own.

iBooks was due to publish a second trilogy featuring the JSA and written by Kupperberg when Preiss was killed in a car accident in 2005. The company tried to hold it together but it eventually folded.

Kupperberg, himself, used to post on the DC MB's and, according to him, the first book in the trilogy was basically written and sitting at the publisher when iBooks folded. Because iBooks went into bankruptcy the manuscript was considered part of iBooks' assets. DC had hoped to get back control of the book and take it to another publisher but, the last I had seen from Kupperberg he said that it was a no-go and the manuscript would have to sit in iBooks' assets until such time as the deal wore out.

As I understand it, iBooks' deal with DC stated that the had to publish the manuscript within a certain time frame or DC got the manuscript back. Obviously, the manuscript ended up languishing until now so the statue of limitations must have finally run out.

I would imagine, however, considering the amount of time which has passed, the book had to be re-written to reflect changes in continuity since Kupperberg originally wrote it.

It will be interesting to see if the rest of the trilogy shows up now as well. I don't believe Kupperberg had finished the other two books in the series when Preiss died.

[Michael P]

Wasn't that GL series written by the novelist Christopher Priest, rather than the comic book writer Christopher Priest?

[Village Idiot]

Stressfactor says, "Finally, a subject I know something about."

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[Lester C.]

Wasn't that GL series written by the novelist Christopher Priest, rather than the comic book writer Christopher Priest?

The comic book writer and only one of those books made it into stores, the book featuring Kyle.

[Stressfactor]

The comic book writer and only one of those books made it into stores, the book featuring Kyle.Sorry Lester, you're wrong. All THREE made it into the stores. Although the one featuring Hal was the last one to make it in and it was delayed. It was, as far as I know, the last thing iBooks published before it went under... it squeeked in just under the wire.

Reason why I know this is because I sat in a Borders with a cup of coffee on three different occasions and skimmed thorough all the books the thing before deciding that I didn't want to buy any of them because Priest had really screwed things up.

At the time I didn't know much about Alan Scott, so I can't testify to how accurate the story was, I wasn't crazy about Kyle at the time and when it came to Hal's book.... Priest's depiction of Carol Ferris was horrible and he got a bunch of the facts about Hal and Ollie's 'Hard Travelin' Heroes' days wrong.

[Stressfactor]

Stressfactor says, "Finally, a subject I know something about."

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