THE KINGDOM COME NOVEL

In 1998, to cash in the success of Kingdom Come, Elliot S. Maggin, a renowned comic book writer, took on the job of making this novelization of the Kingdom Come story by Mark Waid and Alex Ross for those of us with longer attention spans.
This 340-page novel has some positive points and some negatives too. On the plus side, the book gives more descriptions of characters we saw in KC but didn't know the name, like Braintrust or Americommando, and it also explains how that exoeskeleton Batman has, actually works! But the negative is that the book tends to get a bit boring, it drags some unimportant events yet the really important parts in the comic are dealt with too briefly.


But what puts this book on the plus side again is the art, not only do you get the dust jacket (pictured above) with new art by Alex, but you also get 4 new color illustrations (below - top row), which represent 5 very important moments from Kingdom Come, re-visualized and 5 black and white ones of the 5 most important characters on this story Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Shazam (below - bottom row) and Norman McCay (left) exclusively on this tome, which I have scanned for your viewing pleasure.





There are 3 different versions of this book, all 3 with the same cover: The hardcover, which is IN MY COLLECTION, a paperback version with the same interior art, only smaller and an abridged, audiobook version, which contains 2 audio cassettes with narration and performances by voice actors of key dialogue from the novel. I'd like to get the last one, just out of curiosity...