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Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead |  | Authors: Robin Furth, Peter David, Richard Isanove
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 7840
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 208
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Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7 x 0.6
ISBN: 0785129510
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780785129516
ASIN: 0785129510
Publication Date: February 2, 2010
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Product Description
A horrified Steven Deschain learns that the deadly seeing sphere called Maerlyn's Grapefruit has been stolen from his chambers! Far worse, when he enters his wife's room to arrest her for the theft, his son Roland is standing over her body with a gun in his hand. The youngest gunslinger has perhaps committed the most hideous crime of all! Continuing the epic saga based on the best-selling Dark Tower novels by the master Stephen King. Collects Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead #1-6, and Sorcerer.
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This isn't just the beginning. It's the beginning of the end February 7, 2010
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
The young gunslinger will soon embark on his world-spanning quest to destroy his sorcerous nemesis... and Gilead is definitely doomed.
The graphic novel prequel of Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series grinds toward its inevitable end... and as Gilead and everyone in it is about to crumble, the story takes on the harrowing dimensions of a Greek tragedy. "The Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead" is filled with blood, tragic deaths, treachery, and evil magic -- and it's a truly brilliant story.
Roland wakes to find that he's killed his own mother under the Grapefruit's spell. Even though it's found that she was a traitor planning to kill her husband, he's faced with the gallows. But it isn't the last death that will tear Gilead apart -- Cort's investigations in Marten's room leads to tragedy when he's exposed to a poisoned book, and another of Stephen's ka-tet falls to the Slow Mutants.
As Marten's web begins to tighten around the city, others fall prey to John Farson's plots and die terrible, bloody deaths -- and Stephen Deschain is gravely wounded in an ambush. Roland and his young friends are called upon to save Gilead from the traitors that riddle its population... but they cannot prevent the death from spreading to even the most invincible gunslinger.
"Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead" is like tumbling down a steep, rocky mountain covered with briars and thistles -- everything just goes downhill, and there's a lot of blood, pain, misery and death. Reading this comic book is a pretty painful experience because our callow young gunslinger is slowly losing everything and everyone that he loves, and the worst part is that there are a few more issues to go.
Peter David and Robin Furth smoothly adapt King's writing into a spare, rough-edged elegance, and they know how to heighten the tragedy of it -- in particular, the destruction of the gunslingers and the loss of the last of Roland's innocence. In fact, the entire story of "The Fall of Gilead" is a shocking string of bloody, violent death -- it was pretty obvious that almost everyone in Gilead would die, but it's still massive shock whenever another gunslinger is murdered.
The artwork is, as always, is brilliant -- bleak, shadowy and locked in perpetual dusk, with bright splashes of red everywhere (blood, scarlet curtains, Aileen's poncho, the Good Man's mask, etc). And it's worth noting that Roland undergoes a change in these issues, slowly morphing from a skinny young boy to a chiseled, strong man. I doubt this was an accident.
This brilliantly dark, bloody series soars into the realm of tragedy in "Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead" -- it can make you weep for people who never were, in a ruined world that never was.
The end is nigh February 21, 2010
Derrick O'Rourke (Dublin, Ireland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this hardcover. We begin with an exploration of Marten Broadcloak & his past. It's a simple but enlightening enough tale. Then the fall begins. Noticeably enough the demise of Gilead comes from within. There are some real harrowing scenes in it and the pace is relentless. Roland takes a back seat of sorts & it concentrates more on his father for as long as possible. The art once again is fantastic and really suits the mood of the book. Overall it's a thoroughly enjoyable read & well worth the look for new & old fans of the Dark Tower alike.
Great at filling in the gaps February 14, 2010
D. Berdanis (Joliet, IL United States)
This story and the next (The Battle of Jericho Hill) are what I've wanted to see since they were mentioned or implied in the Dark Tower series. Great job of filling in the gaps. Nice to see what Gilead looked like before the fall and how it fell.
Wonderful artwork. This graphic novel series has far exceeded my expectations. Must haves for any Dark Tower fan!
"Tell me, is there balm in Gilead?" February 17, 2010
Frank J. Konopka (Shamokin, PA)
This graphic novel is bringing us slowly but surely to the Battle of Jericho Hill, and the beginning of Stephen King's Dark Tower series. The folks writing the storyline are truly amazing, for they draw you in very quickly and keep you riveted to the plot as it races along like a runaway train!
The artistry is masterful, and it adds tremendously to the plot line. To see the faces of the characters we only read about in King's books is wonderful. I can see this tale working its way to its sad end. I really don't want it to end, but I know it must, so I wil eenjoy it while I can.
Bang! March 20, 2010
Sean Riley
This is a fantastic continuation of the series. Art is as wonderful if not better than the first in the series. Robin and the rest do a fantastic job bringing this story to life. Great work, higly recommeded if you have the others in the series...
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