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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8787022" data-attributes="member: 508">Fortunately, for the most part each Destroyer novel is a standalone story, so it doesn't really matter in which order you read them.&nbsp; The one I'm reading now is a bit of an exception, though, because apparently at the end of #84 it looked like Master Chiun had been killed and Remo's starting out #85 all despondent at the apparent death of his mentor, but I know from other books further down the line that his apparent death was just that - only apparent.&nbsp; (It's even mentioned that there was no body found, which is a bit of a giveaway to a comic book fan like myself.)&nbsp; I'm seriously hoping that they get that resolved in this novel, because I'd like to see how Master Chiun escaped his apparent death.It also helps that I read the first 40-50 or so in the series in order, albeit several decades ago.&nbsp; The series starts out with Chiun and Remo mostly fighting crime bosses and the like before it takes a turn into the spies and science fiction realms, with later opponents including gene-spliced monsters, robots, and the types of supervillains you'd expect to see in superhero comic books, like a guy who can transform his body into electricity and travel through the phone lines.&nbsp; And they get into various mythologies as well, as Sinanju myth holds that Remo is the physical embodiment of Shiva, the Destroyer, and in the current novel it looks like he's up against a sort of avatar of Kali, the Hindu Goddess of Death.Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 8787022, member: 508"] Fortunately, for the most part each [i]Destroyer[/i] novel is a standalone story, so it doesn't really matter in which order you read them. The one I'm reading now is a bit of an exception, though, because apparently at the end of #84 it looked like Master Chiun had been killed and Remo's starting out #85 all despondent at the apparent death of his mentor, but I know from other books further down the line that his apparent death was just that - only apparent. (It's even mentioned that there was no body found, which is a bit of a giveaway to a comic book fan like myself.) I'm seriously hoping that they get that resolved in this novel, because I'd like to see how Master Chiun escaped his apparent death. It also helps that I read the first 40-50 or so in the series in order, albeit several decades ago. The series starts out with Chiun and Remo mostly fighting crime bosses and the like before it takes a turn into the spies and science fiction realms, with later opponents including gene-spliced monsters, robots, and the types of supervillains you'd expect to see in superhero comic books, like a guy who can transform his body into electricity and travel through the phone lines. And they get into various mythologies as well, as Sinanju myth holds that Remo is the physical embodiment of Shiva, the Destroyer, and in the current novel it looks like he's up against a sort of avatar of Kali, the Hindu Goddess of Death. Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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