The Dark Tower: Gunslinger Born by Stephen King
Blurb for the back cover:
“Sexily”
I am not the biggest Stephen King fan. Out of his many, many books I have only read eight of them: The seven books in the Dark Tower series and his pulp fiction inspired The Colorado Kid. The Dark Tower series is one that I am surprised more people aren’t interested in. It started in 1970 when Stephen King released The Gunslinger. Thirty-four years later, he finally finished the series with The Dark Tower in 2004. What drew me to this series is that it wasn’t King’s traditional horror type story but The Dark Tower is more of a fantasy story. Throughout the series, the story intertwines through some of King’s other work and occasionally crosses over in to real life.
Enter, 2007 when King returned to the series to pen a series of comic books that continue the story of the Gunslinger. In the first story arc, the one featured in the sexily hardbound edition the encompasses the first story arch, is based off of the fourth Dark Tower book, Wizard and Glass. I’m looking forward to the next story arcs which feature an original story.
The Gunslinger Born tells of Roland and his two best friends who are tricked in to early adulthood by evil man of many faces. Because of that they are sent away from their homes and come across a whole new set of problems in Hambry where Farson, the big evil guy, has put plans in to motion to use machinery from the old world to crush the forces of Affiliation led by Roland’s father.
This book is beautiful. Drawn by hand, colored by computers, the artwork in the book might be the nicest I’ve ever seen. It lacks the charm of a hand drawn, black-and-white graphic novel. It’s like comparing a low budget indie film like Juno to an expensive Hollywood blockbuster like Pirates of the Caribbean. But like all Hollywood blockbusters (especially the later two Pirates of the Caribbean films), something feels lost with such high production values. Since this graphic novel is based off of a 718 page (mass market version) book, something is bound to be lost and I am not sure how this story will read to somebody who has not read Wizard and Glass. I feel the story is a little rushed as they condense it down and the reader would have a hard time grasping the relationship between Roland and Susan or Roland versus the Big Coffin Hunters. I hope that in the future graphic novel plot arcs will be a little more clear.
Overall I wouldn’t call this a good introduction to the Dark Tower series (for that read the second book, The Drawing of the Three). Fans of the series however will enjoy this continuation of the series. So much of Roland’s life is left unexplored in the books that the graphic novel format is a good way to explore his past.
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