For Stephen King fans

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Marvel comics is doing an adaption of The Stand. They have already done a widely praised prequel to his Gunslinger series. This should be great.
http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/4144.htm/#comment-69343


above is some promo art, and possibly covers for a couple issues.

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“There’s nothing more interesting–and more fun–than seeing an old work take on new life in a new medium.” states Stephen King. “I’ve enjoyed working with Marvel on The Gunslinger series, and am excited about this collaboration regarding The Stand, which will bring Stu Redman, Frannie Goldsmith, Lloyd Henreid, and Randall Flagg to a new audience.”

The comics will be presented as a limited series based on The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition to give the most depth and detail possible in this first ever graphic visual adaptation. The comic series will be available in comic book stores across the country with the first installment available in September, 2008. As with previous partnerships, the entire saga will be overseen by King as the Creative and Executive Director on the comic book series.
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The series will be adapted by award-winning playwright and writer of TV’s Big Love, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Marvel’s Fantastic Four and Sensational Spider-Man). Harvey award-winning Captain America artist Mike Perkins will be illustrating the series.

[DebbieCDC]

1. "The Stand" was ALWAYS my favorite King book

I'd love this see this interpretation

[Cheap_Trick]

2. I'd just finished listeneing to the Uncut audio book

at work. Took a couple weeks, it was 43 hours unabridged. Hard not to picture the actors from the miniseries now. I'd heard rumors that Marvel was considering this. Glad it's going to happen. I can only imagine how big the collected edition is going to be...phone book sized.

[Iris]

3. I just saw this and thought the same thing about the phone book size collection

an old school phone book at that!


I just picked up The Stand to re-read for the summer. It's the uncut version with 150,000 more words than the first edition! Yikes!

[Cheap_Trick]

4. I read the uncut right after the mini-series aired.

took forever, but damn what a read.

I really think that it should be right up there with Lord of the Rings and Narnia when it comes to Christian endorsed fiction. (and here I am, an agnostic:))

But I am very very excited about this project. I was really hoping they'd get Peter David to do the writing (he did The Gunslinger series), but this should still rock hard.

[Cheap_Trick]

5. according to this

http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/4136.htm/
It will be 6 5-issue mini-series. Assuming you get around 20 pages of story per comic, it'll be a whopping 600+ pages! Not to mention any supplemental material. I assume they'll do a "handbook" for the series, with a detailed entry for all the characters and so forth (they did this for the Gunslinger and are doing an Atlas for that as well).

[RebelOne]

6. The Stand was a masterpiece.

I read both versions. I will definitely be buying the comic.

[pitohui]

7. i only liked the first part of it, the superflu part -- which was indeed a masterpiece

the rest of it was just droning on and on and on in my humble opinion, maybe it would be better as a comic book for my tiny mind!

[devilgrrl]

8. The original 1978 edited version of the story is MUCH better than the so called...

unedited/uncut story. Unedited my eye, the story was practically RE-WRITTEN!

I swear several of the characters were far more annoying than the original story, especially Fran.

:thumbsdown:

check out this thread discussing 'The Stand' from '05: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=208&topic_id=4535