Gruenwald, Mark
AVERAGE REVIEW SCORE:
2 out of 5
(1 book)
Marvel Chillers: Shades Of Green Monsters
A prose novella adaptation of a comic book story by Peter David, with panels from the original comics inserted as illustrations. When a corrupt police commissioner is forced by a mob boss to begin a campaign to clear the homeless out of New York's sewers, the police come face to face with the vagrants' unlikely defender; Emil Blonsky AKA The Abomination. Seeing his former friend turned enemy on TV, the Hulk heads to New York to assist the police.
The whole concept of this book is a bit weird. The prose is very large print and written in a very basic and unimaginative way, suggestive of a book aimed at younger readers, but why would a younger reader choose this when they could just read the actual comics? In fact, why would anyone choose this if they could just read the actual comics? Well, I have, so you don't have to.
The story on offer here is pretty bland but inoffensive, but the panels lifted from the comics actually suggest Peter David's original version actual had a great deal more subtlety and drama than Gruenwald's rehash. What we get here isn't actively bad, but it is absolutely pointless.
Put simply, I'd just recommend seeking out the comics ('The Incredible Hulk' #431 and #432, apparently) and leaving this well alone.
2 out of 5
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