Product Description: It's the return of the best-selling comic book series, inspired by Stephen King's epic The Dark Tower! Gunslinger Roland Deschain has seen the death of his lover Susan Delgado. And the Big Coffin Hunters who burned her at the stake are now in pursuit of Roland and his ka-tet Cuthbert and Alain. The friends are forced to flee into the desert with the deadly posse in hot pursuit....and Roland is in a coma! Don't miss the next chapter in the saga of the Gunslinger whose quest for the Dark Tower will shake the foundation of reality itself! Collects Dark Tower: The Long Road Home #1-5.
A nice flashback I've read the DT series a couple of times, and it's nice to see it presented in the form of a graphic novel. What I found most interesting is Gilead itself. I always envisioned it as an intact, undiminished region, so it was odd to see it as a collection of run-down buildings only marginally better than its neighbors. It fills in some new material, and the attention on Alain and Cuthbert was great.
Far from home The Long Road Home is a worthy addition to any Dark Tower fans collection. It delves into the other characters more deeply and develops them whilst staying true to Sai King's world.
To be honest, I liked Gunslinger Born more, but they are totally different story arcs so it might just reflect my own preferences in the Dark Tower saga.
Pretty pictures, shoddy story I was excited to get some untold stories in this book, after Book One essentially rehashed contents from Wizard and Glass. Unfortunately, precious little actually happens in this one, and what does happen is poorly told. These writers are painfully substandard. Stephen King's brilliance is in his ability to create suspense and to make you care about the characters. I really wish he was writing these graphic novels...or at least re-writing them. I was a big fan of the original Dark Tower books, particularly the first four (things got a little sketchy towards the end, unfortunately), so I will probably continue to read these as they come out, but my expectations are now drastically lowered. Gotta call it like I see it.
One problem only with these ones As a Dark Tower junkie, I can only say the only problem with this is it being too short. Seeing what happened between Roland's departure from Meiji in Wizard and Glass and his return to Gilead further ilustrated what made this awesome character who he is. Having no big plot twists or anything, the events told in the story are pretty much what I had figured out; Still doesn't mean I didn't enjoy having my suspicions confirmed.
Nice product The art is great. The printing is awesome. There is lots of color on high quality paper. It is a heavy book, like a coffee table or musuem book. And the involvement of the greatest writer of our time...
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