Gunslingers and Dark Towers
by pkooger
Think of Clint Eastwood. Now think of King Arthur and his knights. Now think of post-apocalyptic horror stories. Now imagine all of these elements swirled into one epic series. This is The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. King has described this series as his magnum opus and has been releasing installments of it for the past 30 years. The first novel of the series, The Gunslinger, was published in 1982, and the 7th and most recent book of the series (confusingly also named The Dark Tower) was published in 2004. Suddenly, waiting a year for J.K. Rowling to release the next Harry Potter book doesn't seem like it was so bad.
Marvel Comics has created an ongoing series of graphic novels based on Stephen King's original series. The comics series of The Dark Tower acts as a prequel to the main storyline of the novels. The comics tell the story of how the protagonist, Roland Deschain, becomes the man known as the gunslinger. Marvel has released four collections of The Dark Tower graphic novel series to date, which you can pick up right here at AA
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Too cool! There is also an
Too cool! There is also an ongoing graphic novel series of Stephen King's [b:1038791|The Stand] - by Marvel as well. [b:1351748|Vol 1] and [b:1351749|Vol 2] are available @ AADL.
When he warns you in the
When he warns you in the final book, take it to heart. I know a lot of people were upset about the ending. I, however, LOVED it.