News Around the Net!
My friend Ethan e-mailed me this terrific article from Salon.com, entitled “Will Future Generations Understand The Simpsons?” It’s a great piece analyzing how pop-culture references might date once-great shows like The Simpsons, Seinfeld, etc., rendering them incompr
“If you love me, then love me.” The Dark Tower Book IV: Wizard and Glass
So here we come, at last. Since first discovering the world of The Dark Tower with Marvel Comics’ The Gunslinger Born series of mini-series, I have been eager to reach this fouth volume. That’s because I knew that the Gunslinger Born comics were mostly adapted from mat
News Around the Net
I am speeding ahead with Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, and loving every page. (Click here if you missed yesterday’s review of Book II: The Drawing of the Three.) Now comes word that Ron Howard and Brian Grazer have acquired the rights to the series, and are plannin
“Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum?” The Dark Tower Book II: The Drawing of the Three
Click here for my description of the beginning of my journey to the Dark Tower, and here for my thoughts on The Dark Tower Book I: The Gunslinger. Although all of the Marvel Comics’ Dark Tower prequel comics (The Gunslinger Born and subsequent mini-series) were set entirely in t
“In a World That Has Moved On…” The Dark Tower Book I: The Gunslinger
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. So opens book one of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, The Gunslinger. It’s a terrific opening line, and the rest of the story that follows ain’t too shabby, either. The titular gunslinger is Roland Deschain,
On the Road to the Dark Tower…
Back in 2007, Marvel Comics released the first of a series of comic books based on Stephen King’s The Dark Tower novels. Called The Gunslinger Born, that first seven-issue mini-series chronicled the back-story of the Dark Tower novels: specifically, the youth of Roland Deschain, t