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A review by xterminal
Dark Tower: The Long Road Home #1 by Robin Furth, Peter David, Jae Lee, Richard Isanove
4.0
Peter David, The Dark Tower vol. 2: The Long Road Home (Marvel, 2008)
While I half-expected it would happen, I was still jolted when Peter David and his crew struck out on their own in the graphic novel adaptation of The Dark Tower. David assures us in the afterword that every last piece of plot and dialogue that wasn't in the original books passes before Stephen King's eyes, but let's face it, he greenlighted the film adaptation of Sleepwalkers. (And I say this as a diehard fan of both Madchen Amick and Ron Perlman.) And after the setup in the first book, which cleaved to the original source material like a lost angel to Tammy Faye Bakker's shoulder, it was even more unexpected. I half-saw the whole thing as a setup. But I am a big fan of Peter David's, so I was willing to give him some slack. And I was rewarded with, at the least, an interesting storyline that didn't break canon. As long as they tread this particular path, I will continually be waiting for David and co. to find their way back to the original source, but they seem to be striking off on tangents pretty well. *** ½
While I half-expected it would happen, I was still jolted when Peter David and his crew struck out on their own in the graphic novel adaptation of The Dark Tower. David assures us in the afterword that every last piece of plot and dialogue that wasn't in the original books passes before Stephen King's eyes, but let's face it, he greenlighted the film adaptation of Sleepwalkers. (And I say this as a diehard fan of both Madchen Amick and Ron Perlman.) And after the setup in the first book, which cleaved to the original source material like a lost angel to Tammy Faye Bakker's shoulder, it was even more unexpected. I half-saw the whole thing as a setup. But I am a big fan of Peter David's, so I was willing to give him some slack. And I was rewarded with, at the least, an interesting storyline that didn't break canon. As long as they tread this particular path, I will continually be waiting for David and co. to find their way back to the original source, but they seem to be striking off on tangents pretty well. *** ½