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Dark Tower Comic Series Confirmed
uberbastard writes "For all of you die-hard fans of Stephen King's epic Dark Tower series, it looks like we're in for an extension. Stephen King and Marvel comics will be teaming up along with renowned artist Jae Lee to create an original comic series based on The Dark Tower. From the article: 'The comics will work in conjunction with the novels, further supplementing and defining the saga's mythology under the direction of the acclaimed author himself.'"
Good Lord, I tried to stick it out - I swear I did. But by the time I finished "The Waste Lands" I was thinking that I was reading the author's equivalent of wanking in text form. Apparently I was right, see:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(seri
Yikes! How he starts this as a reply to Robert Browning's amazing "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" is just the stuff of nightmares. It is the authorial equivalent of slicing up an original manuscript of Browning's and then using the paper strips to wipe one's ass.
There's a sad tendency among writers today to create vast universes of interconnected stories among all of their works so that every novel and short story must be purchased and read to see the whole fabric of the author's imagined universe. This unifying tendency reminds me of Michael Moorcock who has revised his many stories to link up in ever neater ways to complete his Eternal Champion/Multiverse series. The chief problem is starting off with seminal works of fantasy fiction like the "Elric of Melnibone" series and ending up with something that is so self-referential it borders on parody of both reader and writer (not that I recommend you actually read the latest 3 Elric novels - Ugh!).