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Just a little factoid... one of the best things about the Tower series is how it ties together...
And I love how the Dark Tower hinges all his other books together, it seems. Check out the following URL for a pretty solid list of tie-ins.
http://www.thedarktower.net/connections/roadmap
Eddie? I thought the comic book series were going to be the origins of roland, ending with the start of book 1, is this true?
Goddammit make him stop with the teasing
They can fit him in. It'll be all plot related, except one full-page picture of Eddie yelling "IM EDDIE DEAN, BITCH"
Because that's Eddie's backstory, right?`
So God knows, we could see Roland blowing his horn before leading bizzaro world Eddie, Jake, and Susananah into battle with low men in the Terrorities.
Don't you mean Susannah-Prime?
Susannah-Prime:She's asian now.
Is he armless?
Are you kidding? D :
That'd make gunslinging a lot harder.
And by 'harder' I mean 'HILARIOUS'
All things serve the beam
Question; has the backstory that we're getting at the end of each comic been covered by King anywhere else? I've never seen the story of Myerlin and Arthur discussed in this much detail before. Not to mention the origin of the Crimson King.
Situation excellent. I am attacking.
- General Ferdinand Foch
And, yeah, the issue was great. Jae Lee's art is off the chain.
HOLY FUCK
Because holy fuck I had no idea the Great Old Ones were that stupid
...and I'm bored so, despite the following being considered nerdy mental masturbation, I want to especulate about cast
For Roland...I have no fucking idea, the only choice would be Clint Eastwood in the seventies so I'm not going to insult anybody by saying another option.
For Eddie:
The dude from lost:
link
Susanna:
two choices actually,
Zoe from Firefly
or Rosario Dawson,
I have no idea about Jake.
I would love to see Lance Henriksen as Father Callahan, Anthony Hopkins reprising his role as Ted Brautigan (although the original movie was a travesty IMO). I'm also thinking Gary Oldman for Marten (especially after seeing him in the comic). Just for the hell of it I would at least like to see clint eastwood as Eldred Jonas (might be too old though) or some other small role, like Mort the weed-eater from Tull. So, any other ideas?
The guy who played Sawyer is the one true Eddie, or at least he's Eddie's bro.
Okay, as Henry, maybe
But there is no way Josh Holloway would make a convincing junkie-turned-gunslinger
This kinda made me wonder...would he pull off a good Roland?
What do you guys think about Abrahams helming the whole thing? I kida like his style. I HATED the Mission Impossible movies, but 3 was awesome. It brought a lot of new things to the franchise, the opening sequence alone is worth the price.
I love LOST, so I am pretty happy with Abrams taking on the rights
And it's cliche as hell, but Viggo Mortenson could probably make a satisfactory Roland
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i just got through the second and really and i'm still reeling over how awesome this is turning out. art is exactly where i would like it to be at, characters are great, and it's basically my favourite time period in the dt universe. also these little backstories behind the tower, the orbs etc is awesome. it's great because it gives them an outlet for building all the extra mythos around the world that king can't really do unless it's dressed up in a short story about something else (low men in yellow coats etc).
it really is the lotr of our times and still so many people are not aware of it. if anything king's letter in vol 2 shows that he's not worried about shows turning out badly and is more than willing to let abrahams give this a spin..
That's basically somebody trying to gouge you. A new book shouldn't be priced that high unless it's been out for a few weeks and a price guide confirms it. Fresh on the shelf should be cover price.
Also, love the books and these comics are really nice so far. The art is amazing.
My gamertag on live is RolandtheWhite (RolandDeschain was already taken....)
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But they aren't like worth anymore then what's on the cover. Buying comics thinking they might be worth something is a suckers bet.
well I mean I obviously bought the 3 dollar version. I was just wondering if alternate covers were a "thing"
It sorta depends on a couple of things. First, variants are generally produced in far lower quantities than the normal, so the scarcity raises the price. Second, if the book you saw was in a hard plastic cover, it was probably CGC graded, which raises the price significantly. CGC pretty much guarantees the quality of a book, assuming it's still in it's sealed plastic case. If you really want that variant, you could probably wait for the trade, where I'm sure they'll include the variant covers.
Yes, but sadly we do not possess a time machine or the ability to clone the badass gene, so we are left with Viggo.
That's who I thought should play him 5 years ago, and that's who I still vote for today.
He proved he can play a cowboy in Hidalgo, and he proved he can play a stone cold killer in A History of Violence.
Just consider the two movies as a single audition tape, and he's got the chops for the role.
PLUS, unlike many other big name actors Viggo still has the ability to not play a role just as "Viggo doing Roland". If you put anyone else in that role, say Bruce Willis, he's grown to the point where he is simply "Bruce Willis as Roland" rather than actually becoming Roland.
But if they do make a mini-series or whatever, I'd kill to have Clint, Bruce Willis, Kurt Russel, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliot and Sam Jackson have roles in it. Gary Oldman as Marten was a good call, btw
a Young Val Kilmer would make a great older Cuthbert (battle of Jericho Hill?).
My life would be complete just by listening to Sam Eliot saying: "The Man in Black fled accross the desert, and the gunslinger followed". But I don't think the film/tv adaptation would work with a narator.
Volume 3 is out...<3