![]() ![]() This is half the challenge facing veteran YA novelist Marie Lu in Batman: Nightwalker, the latest in a new series of young adult novels based on the early adventures of DC comics characters. Described in typeset prose, he seems merely ridiculous. Seen in the four-color panels of Detective Comics, a man leaping rooftops in a bat suit reaches heights of the sublime. All the worse when the corporate property in question in DC Comics’ Batman, a character whose appeal (whether in the comic books of his origin or the movies and TV shows that followed) has always depended in no small measure on the striking imagery of visual media. In the great hierarchy of book genres, the media tie-in novel occupies a tier decidedly close to the bottom: higher than coloring books or street maps, but lower than, say, Jesus, Life Coach. ![]()
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