Dark Tower has done it again, topping March sales. These titles always perplex me, formatting-wise, because Dark Tower is both a series and a novel and should thus be in bold; The Gunslinger Born and The Long Road Home are both graphic novels (though serialized) and should be in bold; the individual issues are magazines and their titles should be italicized. I never know what the hell to do... This is an official Marvel Comics press release:In 2007, Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born topped sales charts with the release of its first groundbreaking issue, inspired by Stephen King's renowned Dark Tower novels. Helmed by an all-star creative team including Peter David, Robin Furth, Jae Lee, Richard Isanove and Chris Eliopoulos, Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born #1 ushered in midnight comic store openings, drove many readers to comic stores for the first time and was hailed as a classic by fans & critics alike. Marvel is proud to announce that the follow-up series has done the same, as Dark Tower: The Long Road Home #1 debuted as the #1 comic in March!
"The response to Stephen King's Dark Tower comic book series has been phenomenal," says Ruwan Jayatilleke, Vice President of Development, Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Creating compelling graphic fiction such as this is no mean feat. Marvel would like to thank not only the creative team for its inspired efforts and incredible perseverance but also the readers and retailers for supporting this epic series and being so vocal about it!""Dark Tower comics represent a creative perfect storm of sorts, and I can't imagine future installments without every last one of them," raved Jesse Schedeen of IGN.Com. "Jae Lee's vision of Mid-World is beautiful and terrifying and ethereal all at once. Richard Isanove continues to prove he might well be the best colorist in the industry."
Adam Chapman of ComixTreme.Com echoed these sentiments, saying, "I'm immensely intrigued and enjoying this series, and can't wait for the next issue to see what happens next."
The action and excitement continue in Dark Tower: The Long Road Home #2, on-sale now, and Dark Tower: The Long Road Home #3, on sale this May! Plus, don't miss Dark Tower: Treachery #1, arriving in September following the exciting conclusion of The Long Road Home!
Plus, don't miss Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born Premiere HC, collecting the first sold-out limited series that was a national best-seller and topped critics' charts as one of the best comics of 2007!
© C Harris Lynn, 2008
2 comments:
Love Dark Tower the post apocaplyptic atmosphere, the gritiness, just fantastic. It isn't for everyone but the stories are just... great. Its hard to define, maybe the wording anyway just love the read.
Thanks for the comments, SciFi!
I was a huge Stephen King fan when I was a kid - read everything he ever did - still have most of the books, in fact.
I read the first two in the series and years later, I got the third one, but since it had been so long since I'd read the others, I always said I was going to read all of them together and just never got to it.
My brother gave me some of the issues from the first comics series and I've flipped through them, but not really read them.
It is a good series, though.
Interesting side-note: the first book is actually collected from SK's college creative writing papers! He didn't actually write the book straightforward, just collected his college papers on Roland and wrote around them to make them all connect.
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