Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. When it was first announced that Stephen King was not only allowing Marvel to do a line of DARK TOWER comics, but would also be an active participant my Dark Tower junkie brain exploded with thoughts of new Dark Tower stories.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't going through withdrawals after the final book came out, so the idea of new Dark Tower stories had me frothing at the mouth. Then I heard they were just going to redo the events of Wizard and Glass (Book 4) and I got a little sad. However, Jae Lee's work and the great writing by Peter David and Robin Furth made me a fan of the 7 part series.
If you didn't read the Marvel Dark Tower series at it ran, they just put out a really nice trade hardcover. Check it out below:
As nice as that was, I always kept the hope that the Wizard and Glass reimagining would be a runaway success so they would make good on their promise of a brand new series.
Well, looky at what I got for ya'. The folks at Marvel have been really good to me... they hooked me up with a one on one interview with Stephen King (one of my idols) earlier in the year to talk about Dark Tower and they've now given us the first look at the cover for issue #1 of the limited 5-part series of NEW Dark Tower stories titled THE LONG ROAD HOME. Check it out (click on it for a higher res version):
I've seen some of Lee's pencils and the artwork looks out of the world awesome. I really, really can't wait for this series. Thanks to the people at Marvel for this first look!
