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The Stand: Captain Trips
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It begins here: the apocalyptic epic battle between good and evil based on the classic bestseller by master of horror Stephen King! On a secret army base in the Californian desert, something has gone horribly, terribly wrong. Something that will send Charlie Campion and his wife and daughter fleeing in the middle of the night. Unfortunately for the Campion family--and the rest of America--they are unaware that all three of them are carrying a deadly cargo: A virus that will spread from person to person like wildfire, triggering a massive wave of disease and death, prefacing humanity's last stand! Be there as writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa teams with artist Mike Perkins for the first arc in the next great Stephen King event!
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First published September 10, 2008
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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
466 books475 followersRoberto Aguirre-Sacasa is an American playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer best known for his work for Marvel Comics and for the television series Glee, Big Love, Riverdale, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He is Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics.
Aguirre-Sacasa grew up liking comic books, recalling in 2003, "My mom would take us out to the 7-Eleven on River Road during the summer, and we would get Slurpees and buy comics off the spinning rack. I would read them all over and over again, and draw my own pictures and stuff."
He began writing for Marvel Comics, he explained, when "Marvel hired an editor to find new writers, and they hired her from a theatrical agency. So she started calling theaters and asking if they knew any playwrights who might be good for comic books. A couple of different theaters said she should look at me. So she called me, I sent her a couple of my plays and she said 'Great, would you like to pitch on a couple of comic books in the works?'"
His first submissions were "not what [they were] interested in for the character[s]" but eventually he was assigned an 11-page Fantastic Four story, "The True Meaning of...," for the Marvel Holiday Special 2004. He went on to write Fantastic Four stories in Marvel Knights 4, a spinoff of that superhero team's long-running title; and stories for Nightcrawler vol. 3; The Sensational Spider-Man vol. 2; and Dead of Night featuring Man-Thing.
In May 2008 Aguirre-Sacasa returned to the Fantastic Four with a miniseries tie-in to the company-wide "Secret Invasion" storyline concerning a years-long infiltration of Earth by the shape-shifting alien race, the Skrulls,and an Angel Revelations miniseries with artists Barry Kitson and Adam Polina, respectively. He adapted for comics the Stephen King novel The Stand.
In 2013, he created Afterlife with Archie, depicting Archie Andrews in the midst of a zombie apocalypse; the book's success led to Aguirre-Sacasa being named Archie Comics' chief creative officer.
Aguirre-Sacasa grew up liking comic books, recalling in 2003, "My mom would take us out to the 7-Eleven on River Road during the summer, and we would get Slurpees and buy comics off the spinning rack. I would read them all over and over again, and draw my own pictures and stuff."
He began writing for Marvel Comics, he explained, when "Marvel hired an editor to find new writers, and they hired her from a theatrical agency. So she started calling theaters and asking if they knew any playwrights who might be good for comic books. A couple of different theaters said she should look at me. So she called me, I sent her a couple of my plays and she said 'Great, would you like to pitch on a couple of comic books in the works?'"
His first submissions were "not what [they were] interested in for the character[s]" but eventually he was assigned an 11-page Fantastic Four story, "The True Meaning of...," for the Marvel Holiday Special 2004. He went on to write Fantastic Four stories in Marvel Knights 4, a spinoff of that superhero team's long-running title; and stories for Nightcrawler vol. 3; The Sensational Spider-Man vol. 2; and Dead of Night featuring Man-Thing.
In May 2008 Aguirre-Sacasa returned to the Fantastic Four with a miniseries tie-in to the company-wide "Secret Invasion" storyline concerning a years-long infiltration of Earth by the shape-shifting alien race, the Skrulls,and an Angel Revelations miniseries with artists Barry Kitson and Adam Polina, respectively. He adapted for comics the Stephen King novel The Stand.
In 2013, he created Afterlife with Archie, depicting Archie Andrews in the midst of a zombie apocalypse; the book's success led to Aguirre-Sacasa being named Archie Comics' chief creative officer.
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March 27, 2017
The Circle Opens..
As I'm curently reading the Complete 1440 pages of The Stand, Half way through I find out I don't want it to ends...well, this comics is a great way to fast-re-living the experience.
The Beginning
In this comic you see the beginning of 3 of my very interesting characters;
Captain Trips
How this strange killing flu starting...how it start to be catching.. with patient Zero, the first people he encounter...the people at the Gas station...
There's Stu..but more on that later, back when I was reading this chapter I didn't thought any of them will make it.
Frannie
She's one of my favourite characters, may be it didn't struck me at this beginning but in later chapter you'll love her.
Here, she's pregnant and confronting her friend.she's lost with decision..
And then there's
Larry Underwood
The comics catches him, and the mother figure, Alice Underwood, perfectly..
BUT, reading the Unabridged novel, I'd understand Larry deeper than the comic, why he left California was prolonged but better in the novel..
I pictured him as Leo DiCaprio, his mother as Meryl Streep.
Anyway that's so far the only scene that I prefer that anyone read the comic try to find it in the novel... amazing, prolonged but so deep.
-Glad that they add the rat that eats the belly of the dead cat here.-
The comics is good, haunting... yet still it's perfect if you preceded it with the Novel itself.
Mohammed Arabey
20th March 2017
As I'm curently reading the Complete 1440 pages of The Stand, Half way through I find out I don't want it to ends...well, this comics is a great way to fast-re-living the experience.
The Beginning
In this comic you see the beginning of 3 of my very interesting characters;
Captain Trips
How this strange killing flu starting...how it start to be catching.. with patient Zero, the first people he encounter...the people at the Gas station...
There's Stu..but more on that later, back when I was reading this chapter I didn't thought any of them will make it.
Frannie
She's one of my favourite characters, may be it didn't struck me at this beginning but in later chapter you'll love her.
Here, she's pregnant and confronting her friend.she's lost with decision..
And then there's
Larry Underwood
The comics catches him, and the mother figure, Alice Underwood, perfectly..
BUT, reading the Unabridged novel, I'd understand Larry deeper than the comic, why he left California was prolonged but better in the novel..
I pictured him as Leo DiCaprio, his mother as Meryl Streep.
Anyway that's so far the only scene that I prefer that anyone read the comic try to find it in the novel... amazing, prolonged but so deep.
-Glad that they add the rat that eats the belly of the dead cat here.-
The comics is good, haunting... yet still it's perfect if you preceded it with the Novel itself.
Mohammed Arabey
20th March 2017
January 4, 2025
Let's relive the apocalypse.
January 15, 2021
I have heard a number of things about Stephen King's novel called, "The Stand." I see there will be a new television mini-series about it soon in 2021. I'm aware of at least one other television series about it. I haven't read any Stephen King books before, but when I saw I could read a graphic novel about "The Stand" I decided I would take a look at it. The first graphic novel by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa covers five chapters of the book and it is called, Captain Trips which is the name of the disease that is killing people around the United States and the world. The disease got out of a secret military base in the United States and spread rapidly across the country. We are introduced to a number of characters who will be featured in the next installment of "The Stand." For me, this was an easy way to read and understand this novel. I probably would never read the novel on its own. It makes me curious about the new television mini-series and I have learned enough about it that I have ordered the second installment of the book to read soon. If you enjoy graphic novels, I think you would enjoy reading this version of "The Stand" and appreciate the artwork and writing in it.
October 9, 2017
I loved this adaptation. I think they did a fantastic job of bringing the story to life and adding an extra element to it. Still as creepy as the book and the movie, the art brings this compelling story to an even darker place. We watch as the world goes to hell when a super virus is accidentally leaked from a government facility. From city to city we watch the break down from all angles.
October 29, 2023
It’s been a while since I first read the book, the second time was earlier this year, and it was just as good as the first time. I don’t remember what I put in my responses to it. Though I imagine very little of it was negative. To this day it’s one of my favorites, but there are bits in the beginning that irked me. It has nothing to do with the quality of writing, but to the limited knowledge of military life. It’s a reoccurring thing in the Stephen King books which I usually try not to comment on. But, this being a segmented comic it’s easier to reflect on it since it plays a larger piece in a single part.
Being a military spouse and reading this comic, I just about laughed when Sally “Took one final look at the bungalow they’d lived in for the last three years. They were leaving their entire lives behind.”
I can’t say I remember which branch of the military this family was in. Though it’s nothing the average person would know or understand. To understand what I found funny about it, you first need to understand how often each branch of the military moves its members.
In the states Army members only stay about two years on any base, and overseas they only stay for one. Navy members are a little more stable, but spouses never see each other since they spend six on-six off their stationed sub or ship. That’s months not hours. Air force members are the most stable, and our family has gotten very lucky in this regard. Over the last sixteen years we’ve only moved about five times, which is significantly lower than other families in the air force, and that’s not including the initial move we had when my husband first joined.
Keeping that in mind you should understand that each family has a weight limit when they move, which varies based on the branch of service they’re in. If a family goes over their weight limit for a move they’re charged the percentage of however much they went over. Within the states it could be around a four-thousand-dollar charge. For overseas trips going over your weight limit could result in tens of thousands of dollars being charged to you. Because of this, military families regularly get rid of their things and only keep a few sentimental items on average. “Temporary furniture” is a regular item on sale in the BX or PX. During the moves things can and do break or get lost in transit and overall there are very few things they’re able to keep. We’ve had to donate a lot of books over the years, and we always end up regretting it later. Which was why in our last move we got rid of our couch instead and kept the books. With how many Stephen King books I’ve picked up since we last moved overseas we’re actually in danger of going over our weight limit next time. That’s nothing compared to the inability to pick up and maintain hobbies like woodworking. Last move my husband also had to lose most of the woodshop he’d built up. Since we’re overseas the likelihood we’ll have to get rid of a lot of our things is very high. I’m considering getting rid of my desk in the next move. It was meant to be a forever desk, but like I said, military families can’t afford to keep forever furniture or invest their entire lives in things they know they’ll have to let go of eventually. So the line, “They were leaving their entire lives behind.” Made me laugh because any military family member knows better. (End rant)
That being said, it's the only flaw I've ever recognized in The Stand, or any of his other books. I could go on and on about military life and the parts of it that most people don't know about, and did, but I decided to delete it and stay on topic. Putting all that aside, the story is 100% worth picking up.
Thank you for the stories.
Being a military spouse and reading this comic, I just about laughed when Sally “Took one final look at the bungalow they’d lived in for the last three years. They were leaving their entire lives behind.”
I can’t say I remember which branch of the military this family was in. Though it’s nothing the average person would know or understand. To understand what I found funny about it, you first need to understand how often each branch of the military moves its members.
In the states Army members only stay about two years on any base, and overseas they only stay for one. Navy members are a little more stable, but spouses never see each other since they spend six on-six off their stationed sub or ship. That’s months not hours. Air force members are the most stable, and our family has gotten very lucky in this regard. Over the last sixteen years we’ve only moved about five times, which is significantly lower than other families in the air force, and that’s not including the initial move we had when my husband first joined.
Keeping that in mind you should understand that each family has a weight limit when they move, which varies based on the branch of service they’re in. If a family goes over their weight limit for a move they’re charged the percentage of however much they went over. Within the states it could be around a four-thousand-dollar charge. For overseas trips going over your weight limit could result in tens of thousands of dollars being charged to you. Because of this, military families regularly get rid of their things and only keep a few sentimental items on average. “Temporary furniture” is a regular item on sale in the BX or PX. During the moves things can and do break or get lost in transit and overall there are very few things they’re able to keep. We’ve had to donate a lot of books over the years, and we always end up regretting it later. Which was why in our last move we got rid of our couch instead and kept the books. With how many Stephen King books I’ve picked up since we last moved overseas we’re actually in danger of going over our weight limit next time. That’s nothing compared to the inability to pick up and maintain hobbies like woodworking. Last move my husband also had to lose most of the woodshop he’d built up. Since we’re overseas the likelihood we’ll have to get rid of a lot of our things is very high. I’m considering getting rid of my desk in the next move. It was meant to be a forever desk, but like I said, military families can’t afford to keep forever furniture or invest their entire lives in things they know they’ll have to let go of eventually. So the line, “They were leaving their entire lives behind.” Made me laugh because any military family member knows better. (End rant)
That being said, it's the only flaw I've ever recognized in The Stand, or any of his other books. I could go on and on about military life and the parts of it that most people don't know about, and did, but I decided to delete it and stay on topic. Putting all that aside, the story is 100% worth picking up.
Thank you for the stories.
December 27, 2022
#7 -- Intended for an Adult Audience
Title: The Stand: Captain Trips Graphic Novel
Author: Stephen King
Script: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Artist: Mike Perkins and Laura Martin
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Pages: 116
Year of Publication / Release: 2009
It's always good to read something that inspired so many shows I have either watched or heard about growing up, such as Lost and the Walking Dead. The artwork was very detailed, especially when drawing illness and emotion, and I love the addition of the sketches at the back of the book. Lettering and font choice was perfect. Each of the characters, including the anti-heroes are great and I found myself enjoying Nick Andros' storyline the most.
Title: The Stand: Captain Trips Graphic Novel
Author: Stephen King
Script: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Artist: Mike Perkins and Laura Martin
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Pages: 116
Year of Publication / Release: 2009
It's always good to read something that inspired so many shows I have either watched or heard about growing up, such as Lost and the Walking Dead. The artwork was very detailed, especially when drawing illness and emotion, and I love the addition of the sketches at the back of the book. Lettering and font choice was perfect. Each of the characters, including the anti-heroes are great and I found myself enjoying Nick Andros' storyline the most.
November 28, 2024
This book is not for the light reader. The stand is a VERY LONG read. Throughout this read you will switch characters often and sometimes will be stuck with a character you do not like for a long time before getting make to the story you were following eagerly just pages before.
The classic Stephen King style of lovers falling for each other immediately and being soulmates within days is not escaped in this story. Neither is the classic overuse of lyrics or poems that can go on for a bit ( the trash man etc )
I like this book, it took me a long time to get through it though, and it is not because i did not have time but more the effort to get through each characters arc and get to the final showdown made it harder.
The classic Stephen King style of lovers falling for each other immediately and being soulmates within days is not escaped in this story. Neither is the classic overuse of lyrics or poems that can go on for a bit ( the trash man etc )
I like this book, it took me a long time to get through it though, and it is not because i did not have time but more the effort to get through each characters arc and get to the final showdown made it harder.
July 22, 2018
This is a fantastic graphic novel adaptation of the book. If you like the book, do try this as well. If you like comics/graphic novels, this one is a must.
The various storylines which fuse together, the exquisite detail in the pieces of art,
(spoiler) for instance, I was blown away by the woman and child in the car who had been dead for some time.
The various storylines which fuse together, the exquisite detail in the pieces of art,
(spoiler) for instance, I was blown away by the woman and child in the car who had been dead for some time.
May 6, 2024
Stephen King's "The Stand" is a monumental work of apocalyptic fiction that plunges readers into a world ravaged by a deadly pandemic and the struggle for survival that follows. Set against the backdrop of a devastating superflu known as Captain Trips, the novel follows a diverse cast of characters as they navigate the chaos and carnage of a world brought to its knees.
March 12, 2021
Primer volumen en formato de cómic de la novela "The Stand" (título traducido al principio como "La danza de la muerte" y después como "Apocalipsis") de Stephen King.
Desde mi punto de vista, no supieron adaptar muy bien la novela al lenuaje de secuencias gráficas.
Desde mi punto de vista, no supieron adaptar muy bien la novela al lenuaje de secuencias gráficas.
March 12, 2020
Mulai membaca komik The Stand yang dibeli di BBW 2020 kemarin, di saat WHO akhirnya menyatakan bahwa Covid-19 sebagai pandemi.
September 11, 2020
scary
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 23, 2020
VERY string opening to this book,& I continued to lose interest as it approached the conclusion.
February 11, 2021
This book will stay with me forever. I read the unedited version and I'm certain there is nothing like it nor will there ever be. My favorite King book. The King of King.
July 29, 2022
yeah loved this--king at his best
October 11, 2022
A bit confusing to begin with as the narrative/perspective jumps from character to character and it was difficult to keep track of the storyline.
November 7, 2022
Great epic work.
December 30, 2022
My favorite book ever! I read this when it first came out back in the day and I just read it again, something I rarely do.
November 19, 2024
My first King book and in my top 3 with Revival and Needful Things. Definitely going to read again.
November 26, 2024
Excellent
December 14, 2024
Excellent, as always.
December 22, 2024
Great book!
January 1, 2025
Excellent book!!
January 25, 2025
This is my all time favorite book. I’ve read it three times. Obsessed!!!
May 12, 2025
Outstanding book!
October 15, 2025
One of the best I read from S.K.
January 23, 2026
not a fan
January 7, 2025
Outstanding!
July 1, 2015
Ich hab grad keine Lust jede einzelne Ausgabe der Reihe hinzuzufügen, aber ich fand alle toll! Eine eindrucksvolle Umsetzung des Romans, den ich jetzt wohl schon in jeder Form - Buch, Film, Hörbuch und eben Graphic Novel - kenne!
Generell ein Meisterwerk, das es auf Grund seiner Einsicht in die Entstehung und Entwicklung verschiedener Gesellschaftsstruckturen verdient hätte, einen Platz in der Weltliteratur zu erhalten.
Generell ein Meisterwerk, das es auf Grund seiner Einsicht in die Entstehung und Entwicklung verschiedener Gesellschaftsstruckturen verdient hätte, einen Platz in der Weltliteratur zu erhalten.
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