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!Ĭollects Dark Tower: The Long Road Home #1-5. The friends are forced to flee into the desert with the deadly posse in hot pursuit…. And the Big Coffin Hunters who burned her at the stake are now in pursuit of Roland and his ka-tet Cuthbert and Alain. Gunslinger Roland Deschain has seen the death of his lover Susan Delgado. It’s the return of the best-selling comic book series, inspired by Stephen King’s epic The Dark Tower! And, of course, there is the focus of this initial series of reviews: the comic book series published by Marvel. While the core books focus specifically on Roland’s quest, there are other stories the fit into this milieu: The Little Sisters of Eluria, a novella set before the events of the first book, The Gunslinger and The Wind Through the Keyhole, a novel within a novel, set prior to the fifth book, Wolves of the Calla. The Dark Tower is Stephen King’s Magnum Opus, a seven book series that follows gunslinger Roland Deschain on his quest after the Man in Black, and then onwards to the Dark Tower. And supplemental material from the first thirty issues of Marvel's Dark Tower series shed even more light on King's epic - with short stories by Furth, and a tour through artists Jae Lee and Richard Isanove's sketchbooks, and more! Collecting DARK TOWER: GUNSLINGER'S GUIDEBOOK, END-WORLD ALMANAC and GUIDE TO GILEAD MARVEL SPOTLIGHT: DARK TOWER and material from DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER BORN #1-7, THE LONG ROAD HOME #1-5, TREACHERY #1-6, SORCERER #1, THE FALL OF GILEAD #1-6 and THE BATTLE OF JERICHO HILL #1-5.**This is the second entry in what will be a series of reviews on Stephen King’s Dark Tower universe, starting with the comic book adaptions before moving on to the novels. Three guidebooks overseen by Dark Tower: A Concordance author Robin Furth unlock the many secrets of Roland Deschain, the Gunslingers, Gilead and the dark forces of Farson - bringing readers greater insight into the people, places and things of Mid-World. 296 PGSĬhock full of essential short stories, bonus material and apocrypha, this volume is a must-read for Stephen King enthusiasts. Collecting DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER BORN #1-7, THE LONG ROAD HOME #1-5, TREACHERY #1-6, SORCERER #1, THE FALL OF GILEAD #1-6 and THE BATTLE OF JERICHO HILL #1-5. Adding stunning new textures to the mythos of Roland and Mid-World for four years, the initial arc of King and Marvel's union is now complete, and the entire run is collected here. King joined with Marvel in 2007 to bring his masterwork of fantasy to a new generation of readers. In the almost thirty years since that momentous occasion, King introduced millions of readers to the densely textured realm of Mid-World through his magnum opus, the Dark Tower series of novels. "The Man in Black fled across the desert.and the gunslinger followed." With those words from a short story published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Stephen King launched one of the most seminal characters in his lifetime of writing into a destiny fraught with danger, death, triumph and loss. The ultimate Dark Tower collection! An oversized hardcover collecting the first five volumes of Marvel's Dark Tower series plus Dark Tower Companion, a separate volume of bonus material, both packaged in a deluxe slipcase!
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