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Dark Tower: The Long Road Home
It's the return of the best-selling comic book series, inspired by Stephen King's epic The Dark Tower! Gunslinger Roland Deschain has seen the death of his lover Susan Delgado. And the Big Coffin Hunters who burned her at the stake are now in pursuit of Roland and his ka-tet Cuthbert and Alain. The friends are forced to flee into the desert with the deadly posse in hot pursuit... .and Roland is in a coma! Don't miss the next chapter in the saga of the Gunslinger whose quest for the Dark Tower will shake the foundation of reality itself! Collects Dark The Long Road Home #1-5.
160 pages, Hardcover
Published October 7, 2008
About the author
Stephen King
2,147 books900k followersStephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
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April 28, 2026
Con razón, la historia y el "contexto mítico" están escritos por Robin Forth; la misma que hizo la concordancia de La Torre Oscura (y que dijo que según desde morra soñaba con la torre y que le hablabla y no sé qué).
Aunque la primera historia en cómics me gustó cañón, y lo reconozco: la mitología que agregó es bastante genial.
Ya para esta segunda entrega, se siente muy pero muy forzado el meter tantas conexiones a lo ya existente. Lo de el Rey Carmesí a relación con Roland, que aparezca desde aquí y los sumarios de otras cosas, ya son ni absurdos o malos pero forzados. Ya es armar un rompecabezas con piezas que solo alguien como King logra hacer con 800 páginas, y que funcionana bien (al menos con él y la historia original).
Otras cosas me gustaron bastante, el "fin" del Rey Arthur, los positrónicos, la reina y esos seres que aparecen y recuerdan (o recuentan) Lobos del Calla. Éso me gustó bastante.
Aunque la primera historia en cómics me gustó cañón, y lo reconozco: la mitología que agregó es bastante genial.
Ya para esta segunda entrega, se siente muy pero muy forzado el meter tantas conexiones a lo ya existente. Lo de el Rey Carmesí a relación con Roland, que aparezca desde aquí y los sumarios de otras cosas, ya son ni absurdos o malos pero forzados. Ya es armar un rompecabezas con piezas que solo alguien como King logra hacer con 800 páginas, y que funcionana bien (al menos con él y la historia original).
Otras cosas me gustaron bastante, el "fin" del Rey Arthur, los positrónicos, la reina y esos seres que aparecen y recuerdan (o recuentan) Lobos del Calla. Éso me gustó bastante.
June 6, 2025
This is where the series starts to depict events that weren’t featured in Wizard and Glass (according to a post-script - it’s been eight years since I read W&G so I don’t actually remember).
Good to spend more time in the company of Cuthbert and Alain. The artwork is growing on me and I appreciate the bits at the back of the book showing how it originates from initial pencil sketches.
Some of the dialogue mid shoot-out seems unrealistically wordy but there are some really powerful moments here and strong images that I really enjoyed. Looking forward to Dark Tower: Treachery.
Good to spend more time in the company of Cuthbert and Alain. The artwork is growing on me and I appreciate the bits at the back of the book showing how it originates from initial pencil sketches.
Some of the dialogue mid shoot-out seems unrealistically wordy but there are some really powerful moments here and strong images that I really enjoyed. Looking forward to Dark Tower: Treachery.
March 2, 2026
Ya leí el siguiente The Long Road Home, más ligera, con más acción, más disfrutable. Incluso con mejor ritmo, pero al perder la novedad, tambien menos memorable.
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