[noodles]

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Has anyone seen this? It is the comic book series of the events that happen before The Dark Tower series takes place. They're now all available in one book.

Amazon.com: The Gunslinger Born (The Dark Tower Graphic Novel): Peter David,Stephen King,Robin Furth,Jae Lee: Books

The next three issues of the second part are currently available:

The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'd much prefer a book, but I'll take what I get, since I'm a Dark Tower fiend.

[Naren]

I'm currently re-reading through The Dark Tower and right now I'm on Wizard and Glass, which I've heard the first few issues of this comic were based off of.

It seems they even touch on the horrible cataclysmic event that killed off the Great Old Ones and started the spiral into destruction and the beginning of the end of the multiverse.

The Dark Tower series on the second time through is very interesting, since you know how it ends. I'm actually really really liking the ending to the series through my re-read and now I believe that the way King ended the series was the only possible ending there could have been, considering the way all the books up to the ending were written. The wonderful kind of nightmarish fuck-with-you-head kind-of-stuff.

I can find tons of Stephen King novels in large bookstores in Tokyo, but not this comic, which is unfortunate. I'd definitely buy it.

[noodles]

I've read the whole series about five times now. It has taken me that many times through to catch all the shit that is going on. All the foreshadowing really starts popping out the second time through, and after the third or forth time, you finally begin to grasp a lot of the stuff that was explained to you early on.

[Edroz]

i read The Gunslinger YEARS ago... just recently re-read it and am now about a 1/4 of the way through Wizard and Glass.

TDOTT and The Wastelands are just incredible .

[noodles]

The Wastelands is my favorite book in the series. So much cool stuff happens in that book, and that is where you really begin to get an understanding of how the universe is put together, and what is wrong with Roland's world.

[Naren]

Definitely, Noodles. It's interesting how I'm reading certain parts I had read the first time in a COMPLETELY different way. Like "Ohhhh." Understanding what it meant and the significance it holds or the irony in things that I never got the first time through.

Originally Posted by Edroz

i read The Gunslinger YEARS ago... just recently re-read it and am now about a 1/4 of the way through Wizard and Glass.

TDOTT and The Wastelands are just incredible .

Out of all 7 books, The Drawing of The Three is my favorite. The Gunslinger is an excellent book, but it's still my least favorite in the series. I was highly interested after The Gunslinger, but The Drawing of the Three completely hooked me in and got me addicted.

Originally Posted by noodles

The Wastelands is my favorite book in the series. So much cool stuff happens in that book, and that is where you really begin to get an understanding of how the universe is put together, and what is wrong with Roland's world.

It's my second favorite after The Drawing of the Three. I love the parts in Lud and the parts where Roland and Jake are losing their minds.

[Edroz]

Originally Posted by Naren

I was highly interested after The Gunslinger, but The Drawing of the Three completely hooked me in and got me addicted.

yep, that's exactly what happened with me .

overall, i think i like The Wastelands just a little bit more than TDOTT.

[forelander]

I mentioned this series of comics several times in the original thread I made, pretty much every time I got a new issue. No one seemed to interested then. I wonder if the comic shop has my next 3...

And I will always love The Gunslinger version of Roland most. Gunslinger is still my favourite book in the series, mostly coz Roland's all business in that book and does not fuck around. Though to be honest my favourite moment in the series probably involves a bar in Mejis, coffin hunters and 3 boys owning their faces.

[Naren]

Originally Posted by forelander

I mentioned this series of comics several times in the original thread I made, pretty much every time I got a new issue. No one seemed to interested then. I wonder if the comic shop has my next 3...

And I will always love The Gunslinger version of Roland most. Gunslinger is still my favourite book in the series, mostly coz Roland's all business in that book and does not fuck around. Though to be honest my favourite moment in the series probably involves a bar in Mejis, coffin hunters and 3 boys owning their faces.

The whole scene in Tell from The Gunslinger is pretty friggin' awesome.

And it and "Wizard and Glass" are the only two novels where Roland has all his fingers, allowing him to destroy everyone with two pistols. And, like you said, he is all business, no bull-shit, and just pure ruthlessness. Like, how at the beginning he's considering killing that dude he's talking to about Tell.

[forelander]

Originally Posted by Naren

The whole scene in Tell from The Gunslinger is pretty friggin' awesome.

*Tull.

And yes, the area in green text is exactly why those are my favourite things .

That said, seeing him develop into something more than a well oiled killing machine throughout the series is one of the other awesome parts of the series.

[Naren]

Originally Posted by forelander

*Tull.

And yes, the area in green text is exactly why those are my favourite things .

That said, seeing him develop into something more than a well oiled killing machine throughout the series is one of the other awesome parts of the series.

Whoops. Yeah. Tull.

Definitely. He seems almost inhuman in his ruthlessness in the first novel, becoming a little more decent after meeting Jake, but we all know how that ends. Then, from then on through the series, he keeps changing in a more human way. Pretty kickass.

[noodles]

The scene in Tull is my favorite battle in all of the novels.

...and the fingers did their reloading trick.

[noodles]

Originally Posted by Naren

Whoops. Yeah. Tull.

Definitely. He seems almost inhuman in his ruthlessness in the first novel, becoming a little more decent after meeting Jake, but we all know how that ends. Then, from then on through the series, he keeps changing in a more human way. Pretty kickass.

The transformation at the end is striking. When Susannah leaves, it tortures him. He just couldn't let her go. His becoming a human again just tears him up inside, and he feels horrible when he finds himself naturally falling back into the person he was before. It's like he is getting sent back to the desert, the state he is reverting to. Ka is a wheel, do ya.