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The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - The Journey Begins by Sean Phillips, Robin Furth, Peter David, Stephen King, Richard Isanove
1.0
Why oh why do I persist? These come in to work so shiny and brand new and they look so exciting and then they just stink. I keep reading them hoping beyond hope that something awesome will happen, somehow I'll be rewarded for slogging through increasingly rotten storytelling. Hasn't happened yet.
In this volume, words are taken right out of the mouth of Aunt Talia from The Waste Lands and given to some anonymous lunatic. There's another blonde woman with a braid named Susan who gets imperiled in some implausible way & it's never quite clear exactly why there had to be another blonde chic named Susan. Cuthbert is depicted as a fat little boy & Aileen makes one last moronic request just so she can But hey, at least no pregnant women get stabbed in the belly! Really, this was awful. I think the thing that pisses me off most is that Roland is such a dork. He talks to himself, worries about going crazy, and overall is not the badass Roland I remember from the actual Stephen King novel. Do yourself a favor, skip this and go read that.
In this volume, words are taken right out of the mouth of Aunt Talia from The Waste Lands and given to some anonymous lunatic. There's another blonde woman with a braid named Susan who gets imperiled in some implausible way & it's never quite clear exactly why there had to be another blonde chic named Susan. Cuthbert is depicted as a fat little boy & Aileen makes one last moronic request just so she can