midway through new comic swap The Dark Tower : The Long Road Home — in which our gunslinging Hero of Alexandria is channelise to an ominous netherworld , where he ’s banged up and razz but never killed — writer Peter David ’s narrator founder out with this head - scratching business : “ After all , what distributor point is there in great scoundrel attempting evil deeds … if peachy heroes are n’t around to try and stop them ? ” Intriguing ! If only Roland , a descendent of a crinkle of kickass gunslingers , were actually there to stop something in this 2d , more ponderous installment of Marvel ’s adaptation of the Stephen King larger-than-life . First , some backdrop : The teenage Roland grew up in Gilead , a dusty crossroads in which the Old West and the even onetime medieval time meet , itself gear up in a timeless world underlain with rum technology , alternate universes , and of track magic . It ’s the later that exacts havoc on Roland ’s life : After becoming a full - fledged gun , he ’s eye by the hefty and manipulative wiz - character Farson who ’s itching to destroy both the newcomer Roland and his placid motherland . So his dad convert him to mellow - track it out of Gilead . With a twain friend in towage , he set ashore in the town of Hambry where Roland involve possession of Maerlyn ’s Grapefruit ( a.k.a . a mystical quartz Lucille Ball covet by Farson ) and romances a young girl . Things are look up , until said lady friend is whacked amid a plot to destroy him and his motherland . You see , the fine folks of Hambry — they’re friends of Farson . Long Road Home play along the trifecta seduce their way back to Gilead , mulling over their traumatic visit to Hambry . With the Hambrians on their tails , the deuce-ace ’s walkabout gets that much more complicated once Roland ’s someone is sucked into the Grapefruit . Forging ahead on parallel trip ( call back The Lord of the Rings or Empire Strikes Back)—Roland in an alternating realness , his comrades in the creepy frontier — Roland ’s brother sputter to get him back to safety while put off the baddie . Also count on into this equation : the Hambry village idiot getting probe by a robot . We kid you not ! Despite being populated with killer canines , underworld demon - like Creator , nefarious Corvus , and the like , a bunch of hooey happens but not a lot of stuff actually transpire on this Road . It ’s an excellently ominous interlude — Jae Lee ’s landscape painting ache with threat and apparition — that can , at act , feel like a stall patch that reaches an inevitable conclusion : Roland has modify . ( The narrator ’s good - ol’-boy quips , which are too frequent and at odds with the characters ’ feudalistic speak , do n’t exactly speed thing along . ) But perhaps it ’s unavoidable , this being an excursion from King ’s original book . Our proffer ? Best to record Road ’s gripping harbinger , The Dark Tower : The Gunslinger Born , to fully souse up its follow - up ’s productive , sulk colour .
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