Super-heroes don’t just fly on the big screen, hurl lightning bolts on your flatscreen, or leap giant buildings in a single bound in the panels of a comic book. I know; I’ve edited and written novels about them. (Did you know I was a proofreader at DC Comics back in the day? Or that I sold Superman stories — to Julius Schwartz, the editor who was Ray Bradbury’s agent — when I was in college?)

On March 1, I’ll be sharing that knowledge with attendees of the Emerald City Comic Convention in Seattle. I’ll be joined by other experts as we present Panel to Prose: Translating Super-Heroes from Four-Color Staple to Literary Trope.

Super-heroes have long been the near-exclusive purview of comics when it comes to print. With the recent massive success of movies adapted from the comics, super-heroes are enjoying wider appeal than ever before. Can body-suit clad heroes make the leap from glossy graphics-laden pages to prose novels? Is there a difference between the approach of the writer and editor? Are the readers different? Come to the panel and find out!