Jodi Takes On Diana

Wonder.More and more mainstream authors keep stepping into the comicbook fray.

Tamora Pierce announced her intentions for Marvel’s new White Tiger title back in October. Stephen King is enlisting Jae Lee to delve graphically into the origin of Roland Deschain in February. And starting in March, Wonder Woman will be penned by novelist Jodi Picoult.

Now this is interesting to me, because I keep seeing Picoult’s books on the shelves of women around me. Sally has a few of her books, I believe. Wendy is a fan, per the sidebar mention on her blog. And if I’m not mistaken, there are a couple in Darcey‘s collection. Anyone else I missed?

Me, I’ve never read her. So I’ll throw out these questions to those that know her work: What’s she like? Does a leap into superheroic scripting make sense?

December 19, 2006 – 4:16 pm | By Thomas | Posted in Comics, Reading | Comments (5)
  • http://www.danandsally.com Sally Parrott Ashbrook

    I only have one of her books so far–My Sister’s Keeper. I thought it was good but didn’t live up to its potential. I am curious to read a couple of her other books and see what I think of those.

  • Janice

    I just read “Plain Truth.” It was a good book, but not the most challenging thing I ever read. I think she might be a good fit – she likes to write about strong women characters.

  • http://www.myspace.com/wendytarpley Wendy Tarpley

    I think that she’s a good beach read, but her stuff’s really about relationships, mostly female ones with a romantic dude for effect, but overall, it’s not a horrible read. I don’t really see how that would translate to a comic book, though. However, my only frame of reference for the reading of comic books is the Heroes one on the NBC website and Betty and Veronica (which come to think of it, is about girly relationships and a romantic dude generally).

  • http://dmorgen.blogspot.com/ Scrivener

    I don’t think I’ve ever read anything by Picoult, but I’m pretty sure Catherine has. I’ll ask her when I get a chance. However, I think it’s an interesting development.

  • Betty

    I ran across a novel last fall that was pretty good…”Confessions of Super Mom”. I believe there is a sequel coming out later this year. Not a comic book, but there were lots of other superheros in the novel. It was very funny but also touching.