My #1 son is a big time comic reviewer so he sent me a link detailing the big news that Stephen King has agreed to write a prequel to his Dark Tower series. It has some preliminary artwork for the upcoming Marvel comic series .
For all you non-DT fanboys, Roland Deschain is the central character of King's Dark Tower series. King wrote the first book when he was 19 years old and still an undergrad. He rewrote the first book in 2003 so, per SK, it woud better fit the style of the later six books in the series. He got part of the idea for the DT series from a poem from Robert Browning entitled "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came".
Anyway even though "...the series will be illustrated by Eisner-award winning artist Jae Lee.", he (Lee) apparently has a much different idea of how Roland looks than I do as my mental picture of Roland is of a taller & leaner version of Clint Eastwood as the Man with No Name, in Leone's classic spaghetti western series. Jae Lee makes him out to look like a wannabe mafiosi on 'roids, IMHO.
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