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« on: October 28, 2005, 01:22:39 pm »
Just received a Stephen King newsletter letting me know about this, not till April 2006 but I thought I\'d pass the word along to those who are interested
Link to Marvel page:
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« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2005, 01:42:34 pm »
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Just received a Stephen King newsletter letting me know about this, not till April 2006 but I thought I\'d pass the word along to those who are interested
Link to Marvel page:
http://www.marvel.com/publishing/stories/showstory.htm?id=51

Oh man, you are such a sci-fi dork. :wink:
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« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2005, 02:03:07 pm »
niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. :thumbsup:
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« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2005, 02:13:29 pm »
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Just received a Stephen King newsletter letting me know about this, not till April 2006 but I thought I\'d pass the word along to those who are interested
Link to Marvel page:
http://www.marvel.com/publishing/stories/showstory.htm?id=51

Oh man, you are such a sci-fi dork. :wink:


hey man read the series and then we\'ll talk it\'s really good
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« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2005, 02:16:22 pm »
I gave up on king after I finished the last lines of Needful Things.  That crazy freak must have been mainlining Columbia with those manic 3 line chapters.
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« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2005, 02:17:27 pm »
never read it, not worth it?
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« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2005, 02:20:13 pm »
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Just received a Stephen King newsletter letting me know about this, not till April 2006 but I thought I\'d pass the word along to those who are interested
Link to Marvel page:
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Oh man, you are such a sci-fi dork. :wink:
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« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2005, 02:22:33 pm »
Mmmm, I don\'t think so.  I went through a very short S.King phase (probably 4 or 5 books... HA!  That encompases an entire career for some writers, yet for King, it\'s like 10% of his total output).  There was some very cool stuff about that book, but like I said, the end he\'s jumping from character to character in this crazy manic way trying to culminate that concept, and I found it kinda annoying.
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« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2005, 02:32:08 pm »
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Just received a Stephen King newsletter letting me know about this, not till April 2006 but I thought I\'d pass the word along to those who are interested
Link to Marvel page:
http://www.marvel.com/publishing/stories/showstory.htm?id=51

Oh man, you are such a sci-fi dork. :wink:


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« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2005, 04:19:24 pm »
I love kings writting style with the  one line chapters and jumping from character to character.



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« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2005, 08:39:29 pm »
"The comic series will mark the first time Stephen King has produced original content for an ongoing comic book project. The series will expand the saga of King’s epic hero, Roland Deschain, whose quest to save the Dark Tower is captured in seven best-selling novels published over the course of twenty-five years. King’s unparalleled storytelling power will inform new stories that delve into the life and times of the young Roland, revealing the trials and conflicts that lead to the burden of destiny he must assume as a man, the last Gunslinger from a world that has moved on. 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."

Sweet. I am reading Black House right now and I love how it ties into the Dark Tower world.
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« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2005, 09:31:16 am »
^^I forget how does Black House tie in?  What characters themes ect...
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« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2005, 10:12:56 am »
black house is the sequel to the tailisman, neither of which I have read, but I know the tailisman has to do with two alternate dimensions in which everything is opposite or at least off of what it is in the first one. Just based on that, I can see how it ties in on a gereral basis, the same way the stand ties in in wizards and glass when they get to kansas and are pissed at eddie for the flu epidemic, but it didn\'t happen in his dimension and he had no idea.
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« Reply #13 on: October 31, 2005, 10:43:48 am »
Black House has characters that exist or travel to The Borderlands which are another version of the world like Midworld etc. The Beams are talked about as well as the Tower. I think that one of the characters is going to be directly involved in the Breakers plot thread.
The book was published in 2001, by that time King had developed his concept that the Tower series would touch most of his other books in some fashion.
I have not read The Talisman but now I probably will. I don\'t like this collaborative effort as much as I like King solo but the story is still good enough to keep my interest.
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« Reply #14 on: September 16, 2006, 02:21:52 pm »
pushed back to feburary 2007:
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The 1st issue of the yet-to-be-named first arc of the Dark Tower comic series will be shipping in February 2007. The last issue of this six-issue series will be shipping in July 2007. The first hardcover collection will be shipping in October 2007.
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