I should probably stop following this comic book adaptation of Stephen King's Dark Tower. (This series of seven comics covers the backstory of Roland - the story of his youth as told in Wizard and Glass.) I'll have to fight with myself, though. Part of me realizes I'm just not enjoying the book that much anymore, if I ever really did, because it's just telling the same story I've already read before, a story which is a lot less interesting now that I know what's going to happen. Sure, the art is pretty neat, but the writing has essentially been boiled down to dialogue, which is not King's strong suit. Admittedly, it's not him actually writing the book, but still, it's dialogue that's either very similar or, in some cases, exact replicas of his dialogue. It's funny, too, how the comic makes so clear just how repetitive and wordy King is; it's taking only a handful of comics to tell a story that he took about 500 pages to tell.
But anyway, even given all that, another part of me really wants to complete the series, now that it's only two books from the end. |
by Fëanor
