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.
What Others Say
Good addition to a growing series.
Artwork is beautiful. Storyline is amazing. Suggested for anyone who is a Dark Tower Fan!!!!
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 Road Home finds young Roland Deschain reeling from the tragic death of his first love Susan Delgado, but it isn't long at all before Roland and his ka-tet are on the run, leading up to a meeting with none other than the Crimson King. As mentioned ... Read More
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 an awesome seven-part series called The Dark Tower. In 2007 we were treated with a new beginning to The Dark Tower series, a prequel, a graphic novel called The Gunslinger Born. Hence, I could not wait for The Long Road Home...this second installment ... Read More
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 paying four or five bucks for one day's worth of a daily comic strip.
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 quest as well the words "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." Still, a great addition to the Gunslinger universe.
