If you're looking for a book to get your non-comic reading friends interested in comics, give them this book. Smart, gritty, exciting, dark, suspenseful. It's any interesting crime movie you've ever seen done in comic form. Brubaker is doing things in this book that you've seen a million times before, but he does it with such skill you never even notice. You know exactly what is going to happen, but it's fun to watch the pieces fall into place. It's also good because it feels like a full meal of a book, and I never feel like I was paying too much for too little of a book. Sean Phillip's art sets the perfect mood and he is a modern master at creating expressive characters. The back matter of the book has covered so many different topics and I'm never sure what to expect. This issue ends the “Lawless” arc in a bit of a surprising way, and I can’t wait to see the next few issues. February is too long to wait.
---5 out of 5...come see what else Henchman21 has been reading at GEEKS OF DOOM!
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Weekly Comic Book Pulls for 11-07-07
Monday, November 12, 2007
Comic Review: The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born
Hardcover: Issues 1-7
Plotted by Robin Furth
Dialogued by Peter David
Illustrated by Jae Lee and Richard Isanove
Marvel Comics
Cover price: $24.99; Available now
The man in black fled across the desert… and the Gunslinger followed.
A now legendary phrase from the beginning of Stephen King's magnum opus, The Dark Tower series, which captivated millions of readers for three decades, appeared again in the long-awaited Marvel series Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born, seven issues now available in a hardcover collection.
King threw his full support behind the series, though the original writing was done by Robin Furth and Peter David. The seven issues cover a story arc that will be very familiar to faithful readers of King, but can be equally entertaining for those who have never heard of the Dark Tower...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
