Roland, a gunslinger from another world or time period, finds himself on an airplane. “The Prisoner,” a heroin addict, was one of the three individuals with whom Roland would have to contend. The oracle said that three was the number of Roland’s fate. Roland doesn’t know the man’s name, but he recognizes him as “The Prisoner,” about whom he’d been warned by an oracle in the previous book. Entering it, he finds himself in the body of a man named Eddie Dean. Just when he thinks he can go no further, he finds a strange door on the beach. He feels infection spreading through his body and knows it will soon reach his heart. As he weakly walks down the beach, he wonders if he has come to the end of his quest for the Dark Tower and the answers about life and death he’s been seeking. The monster bites off two of his fingers and a big toe, leaving him in severe agony. Roland is on a beach, where he’s attacked by a 4-foot long, shelled creature he refers to as a lobstrosity. Sumptuously drawn by Piotr Kowalski, Jonathan Marks, Juanan Ramirez, and Cory Hamscher, plotted by longtime Stephen King expert Robin Furth, and scripted by New York Times bestselling author Peter David, The Drawing of the Three adaptation is an extraordinary and terrifying journey-ultimately introducing a generation of new readers to Stephen King's modern literary classic The Dark Tower, while giving longtime fans thrilling adventures transformed from his blockbuster novels.It has been seven hours since Roland awakened to find the man in black dead beside him. Now, in the second in the graphic novel series adaptation Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three, originally published by Marvel Comics in single-issue form and creatively overseen by Stephen King himself, the full story of Roland's saga continues.
In this desolate reality-a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic, and yet one that mirrors our own in frightening ways-Roland is on a spellbinding and soul-shattering quest to locate and somehow save the mystical nexus of all worlds, all universes: the Dark Tower. Roland is the last of his kind, a "gunslinger" charged with protecting whatever goodness and light remains in his world-a world that "moved on," as they say. With these unforgettable words, millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King's iconic character Roland Deschain of Gilead. "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." Enter once more the world of Roland Deschain-and the world of the Dark Tower.presented in a stunning graphic novel form that will unlock the doorways to terrifying secrets and bold storytelling as part of the dark fantasy masterwork and magnum opus from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.
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