Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 741 EAN: 9780785135715 ISBN: 0785135715 Label: Marvel Books Manufacturer: Marvel Books Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: October 07, 2008 Publisher: Marvel Books Release Date: October 07, 2008 Sales Rank: 1066 Studio: Marvel Books
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Product DescriptionIt's the return of the best-selling comic book series, inspired by Stephen King's epic The Dark Tower! Gunslinger Roland Deschain has seen the death of his lover Susan Delgado. And the Big Coffin Hunters who burned her at the stake are now in pursuit of Roland and his ka-tet Cuthbert and Alain. The friends are forced to flee into the desert with the deadly posse in hot pursuit....and Roland is in a coma! Don't miss the next chapter in the saga of the Gunslinger whose quest for the Dark Tower will shake the foundation of reality itself! Collects Dark Tower: The Long Road Home #1-5.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Good addition to a growing series.
Artwork is beautiful. Storyline is amazing. Suggested for anyone who is a Dark Tower Fan!!!!
Rating: - Roland's journey continues
When Marvel's first collaboration with Stephen King's Dark Tower series first hit with The Gunslinger Born, it was a revelation. Purists may see things a little different, but to me, The Gunslinger Born was a wonderfully realized comic event that even more wonderfully captured the spirit and soul of King's beloved series. Being a smash hit for Marvel, it comes to no surprise that a sequel would get greenlit, hence The Long Road Home. Picking up right where The Gunslinger Born left off, The Long ... Read More
Rating: - It's Hard To Be The King
Shortly after graduating high school (too many years ago to admit to), I read my first Stephen King novel called Firestarter about young Ms. Charlie McGee. Shortly after, I decided to take on King's 800+ page epic called The Stand (updated in the 90s to 1100+ pages!)....After those two novels I was hooked on anything King...couldn't wait for his next release.
In 1982 King brought back the main antagonist (albeit under a different name) of The Stand for the beginning of what turned into ... Read More
Rating: - Clever marketing
I'm a fan of The Dark Tower series. And these comic serializations are pretty good (though so far, I don't see that they fill in gaps so much as reorder the story). But each new edition advances the storyline painfully slowly -- and by the time it is all finished, what will it have cost the reader -- several hundred dollars or so? That just seems awfully expensive compared to the seven books themselves.
I really do wish these comics would take the narrative farther each time. It's like ... Read More
Rating: - Great artwork and some new material...
I have been looking forward to this imagining of the Gunslinger novels since I heard of it, and I have not been disappointed. The artwork is wonderful; vibrant colors and gritty realism. The Long Road Home fleshes out a period of Roland's quest for the Tower that is not within King's canon, but is interesting nonetheless.
I could have done without some of the fiddling with the story (an expanded role of Sheemie), and the comics unfortunately don't convey the vastness of Roland's world and his ... Read More
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- Good addition to a growing series.
- It's Hard To Be The King