Warrior's Revenge

by Neal Barrett Jr.

Traveling to New York to meet an old friend, Bruce Banner (the Incredible Hulk) discovers that his friend is being stalked by the notorious Super-Skrull, an alien possessing all the powers of the Fantastic Four, and joins forces with Spider-Man to stop the villain. Original.

144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published August 1, 1997

About the author

Neal Barrett, Jr. was a writer of fantasy, science fiction, mystery/suspense, and historical fiction. His story "Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" was nominated for both the 1988 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 1989 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.

Reviews

[Jonathan Fidis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought that this book was great. Spider-Man and Hulk teaming up to fight Super Skrull made for a great battle and story. The book was quite short so Barrett could not truly go into great detail or dialogue, but the story and narration did not suffer from it. The descriptions allowed me to follow the action of the fight as if I was watching it in a movie or game. I loved this book now as an adult and would have loved it as a kid too.

[Michael P. · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is not worth a long critique, so here is a short and inadequate one. Neal Barrett, Jr. shows real craftsmanship except when it comes to quiet moments of conversation between friends. That dialogue is smarmy and has many forced references to what good friends these characters are. This dialog is utterly phony. A superhero story needs to be grounded in some kind of reality for the many unrealistic parts of the story to seem acceptable. Barrett flubs the part he really needs to keep real, with the result is a book that is written in a very readable style that occasionally, and for entire chapters, becomes eye-rollingly bad. The rest of the book does not pay-off as a result.

[Charles · Rating 1 out of 5]

It's a novel based on the Spiderman character. Definitely only for kids. I probably would have enjoyed it as a kid but as an adult I thought it was really really weak. I remember liking the Super-Skrull character from the old Fantastic Four books but that nostalgia didn't carry me through this book.