Reviews

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - Last Shots by Robin Furth, Peter David, Richard Isanove

duparker's review against another edition

3.0

Much better entry than Sheemie's tale, which I read separately. In this case this covers Evil Ground, which had great art, cadence and a vibe very familiar to the reader of the Dark Tower series.

angelofmine1974's review

dark medium-paced

3.0

My review of this book can be found on my YouTube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/W5W0AmhKObo

Enjoy!

trudilibrarian's review against another edition

2.0

Here marks the concluding final volume of the original Dark Tower adaptation by Marvel comics and to say it's left me feeling underwhelmed is quite the understatement. It turns out to be a confusing mish-mash of stories that barely connect to what's come before. The first two chapters are spent on Sheemie and the Breakers and strive to explain the birth of the Tower, its crucial importance and the forces who wish to see it destroyed. This is major Dark Tower sacred canon that took King decades to build and make believers of us all. To see it watered down in the final volume like this doesn't sit well with me and strikes me as rushed and lazy.

Then we're offered another adventure of young Roland and his original ka-tet which is followed up by a re-telling of the legend of Arthur Eld and his defeat of Lord Perth (a kind of lame David and Goliath type deal that I can't remember well enough from the books to know whether any liberties were taken with the source material or not).

As much as I was stupid excited for this graphic novel adaptation, I was slow to warm up to the series; in fact I skipped over Volumes 3, 4, and 5 and didn't pick up the series again until Volume 6 [b: The Gunslinger: The Journey Begins|8728918|Dark Tower The Gunslinger The Journey Begins|Robin Furth|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327977651s/8728918.jpg|13383675]. That's mostly because those first five volumes draw almost exclusively upon material from Book 4 of King's series -- [b:Wizard and Glass|5096|Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4)|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327946510s/5096.jpg|750558]. I'm much more a fan of long, tall and ugly Roland, than young Roland and his original ka-tet comprised of Cuthbert, Alain and Jamie. So while the series did get better for me as it went along -- especially [b:The Battle of Tull|10661149|Dark Tower The Gunslinger The Battle of Tull|Robin Furth|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327978743s/10661149.jpg|15570416] and [b:The Way Station|13115079|Dark Tower The Gunslinger The Way Station|Robin Furth|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1341104990s/13115079.jpg|18289032] -- there were way more lows than highs. Way more places where they got it wrong than right.

However, despite my lack of fangirling at this point, I'm deliriously excited by this news; the Dark Tower adaptation is continuing this fall with The Drawing of The Three: The Prisoner. Now we're talking!! Eddie Dean! New York! And hopefully some lobstrocities and astin. Oh yeah! [b:The Drawing of the Three|5094|The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2)|Stephen King|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1370918050s/5094.jpg|2113248] is one of my all-time favorite books and I have to hope that adapting from this juncture in the narrative will result in a much more successful experiment than what we've seen up to now. Only the best is yet to come in a world that has moved on.

jrquick's review against another edition

3.0

I enjoyed some of the details about the origins of the Dark Tower along with the art style of Sheemies Tale.

But before now, the comics' timeline has been in chronological order until now. The stories feel out of place and I hated the way Dark Grounds resolved with Arthur Eld showing up to rush an ending.

The story of Roland telling Ailene about the fall of Lord Perth was silly and I hate that he promised to speak her name before the tower.

vintonole's review against another edition

4.0

Dark and disturbing. This collects 2 short series and a one-shot. I really liked Evil Ground series. Sheemie's Tale gave interesting back story on how the Red King was destroying the beams.

laughinglibra84's review against another edition

3.0

Meh..the Evil Ground and Lord Perth stories were worth reading..but Sheemie's story is like a psychedelic dream that makes up for it's lack of story.

laurla's review against another edition

"my friend ted says a prison don't need bars on the windy-ohs if the pris'ners got bars in their minds."

bookash's review against another edition

4.0

Oh my poor sweet Sheemie! I don't know if my heart can take much more of his story. It's just too sad.

I do love the way these graphics are delving deeper into some of the background characters. Sheemie wasn't really important until later on, but I love these looks into his time away from Roland, even if they do break my heart.

moreadsbooks's review

2.0

When Lord Perth fell & the earth shook like thunder & all that, wasn't there a plane involved? I feel like some definite liberties were taken with that plot line. How about we talk just about the artwork here? because as usual the story continue to be a disappointment to me. The artwork is so, so lovely. The ghouls hovering over sleeping gunslingers, doing whatever they were meant to be doing. Aileen's bloody mouth. The giant wolves that the bad guys are riding. These are the things that make these books worthwhile, and are probably the only reason I keep reading them.

christin22's review against another edition

2.0

Leider hat dieses Buch hier, was das letzte ist vorerst was ich von der Bibliothek ausleihen konnte, keinen großen Eindruck hinterlassen. Wir haben eher mehrere Kurzgeschichten von anderen Charakteren und wie sie in der Welt zurecht kommen, statt das sich die handlung weiter bewegt. Schade, da ab dem nächsten Band ja eigentlich die richtige Handlung der Buchreihe weiter gehen soll soweit ich weiß.
Zeichnungen sind aber wie immer gut.