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Stephen King’s The Stand hits comic book shelves on September 1st

Started by Mike Olbinski · 11 ヶ月 ago

First Stephen King adapted his Dark Towers series into a comic book and now comes The Stand, considered by some to be his greatest work ever.
IGN posted a preview of the first few pages of The Stand: Captain Trips #1, which comes out at midnight on September 1st. The writing is being done by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four, ... Continue reading »

10 comments

  • ScottyDub

    11 ヶ月 ago

    Mike - I just finished King's book 'On Writing', which was excellent. I'd def recommend to anyone who wants to explore full or part time writing.
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  • Mike Olbinski

    11 ヶ月 ago

    Does it have a section "How to Flub the Ending to your Novel" ??? :)
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  • ScottyDub

    11 ヶ月 ago

    Funny, you mention that since I considered the ending the Stand and others to be disappointing. He talked a lot about writing the Stand, but never mentioned the sucky ending, but he did mention how he came to write that ending and what it meant to him. Which cleared it up a little.
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  • Dadofiandi

    11 ヶ月 ago

    ROTFLMHO. so true
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  • adamczar

    11 ヶ月 ago

    Do you know if this is just a graphic interpretation of the novel or does it continue or add to the story?
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  • Mike Olbinski

    11 ヶ月 ago

    No idea...I would THINK it's a graphic interpretation of it...with likely some new things thrown in?
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  • adamczar

    11 ヶ月 ago

    I ask only because the Dark Tower, from what I understand, was kind of a prequel, so I thought perhaps the Stand series would also be a prequel or perhaps "side stories" that we heard about but didn't see. I'll have to pick it up!
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  • Mike Olbinski

    11 ヶ月 ago

    Well, the first Dark Tower one right now is telling the story of how he
    became a Gunslinger, which was already in one of those books King wrote.
    Granted, I don't think ALL of it was in there, but the first few chapters I
    remember from the book.

    I'm not sure where it leads though, it may not tell the entire story from
    the books, you are right.
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  • adamczar

    11 ヶ月 ago

    I haven't picked up Dark Tower yet because I want to read the novels first... I picked up the Stand because I heard that the comics might happen, hopefully I'll be done with it by the time the comics hit the stands.
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  • Dadofiandi

    11 ヶ月 ago

    Unsatisfying ending
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