[juzzza]

I know there is a comic section, but I am more of a novel reader than comic book reader and I found this interesting.

Marvel, who are going to be releasing King's tale in comic book form, are going to weave the Marvel Universe into the tale and I believe Wolverine is going to appear in issue 1!

I think that is cool and wrong at the same time... any thoughts?

http://www.thedarktower.net/ (Thanks to Ouroboros for the link at his blog)

[Mathain]

Justin, you do realize that's an April Fools story, right?












right?

[Fuxxy Elf]

Oh god I hope it was an April fool...please say it ain't so.

I was pumped when I read King was doing the comic, but now I find out he's not writing it, he's not even writing a storyline or plot or anything. He comes up with an idea which he phones over to the woman who wrote the Dark Tower Concordance who then writes a plot summary and then she phones up Peter David who writes the comic.

Somewhere along the line I feel slightly shortchanged. I mean Peter David writes good comics and half decent tv tie in books so he's good playing in someone else's sandbox, but I'd have thought King would have jumped at the chance of scripting his own comics since it was those old EC comics that got him interested in horror in the first place.

I'll still buy it though, just to revisit some old friends, like Eddie and Oy. I miss them :(

[kater]

Hahahaha I hope you and Ouro weren't sucked into that :D I've only seen a few sketches but it looks pretty good visually - though Roland looks too young, the tone is dark and hopefully they won't fuddle the story. Not sure I like the idea of some of the more complex fantasy works being turned into comics.

[juzzza]

Ouro wasn't... I was!!!

heh!

[Mathain]

I'll buy it for Jae Lee's art, which I've collected (if that's the right word when you don't bag and board your comics) since he was on NAMOR. Hell, I even have those Youngblood comics he did...

And don't feel bad, Juzzza. It wasn't until I read the "slow mutants" line that I realized it HAD to be a joke.