Speaking of adaptations, Stephen King chats with USA Today about the upcoming Dark Tower adaptation from Marvel, as well as other comic-related topics:
Q: You’ve done a bit of comic book work in the past, but comic fans have asked why you haven’t done more. Can you talk about your childhood favorites and whether that four-color world has informed your body of work in ways obvious or subtle?
King: “Short answer to part A? I haven’t been asked that often and really, the press of my own work the last few years has been intense. I’m in a constant race with my own imagination, and imagination usually wins.
“Childhood faves? That’s easy. Plastic Man. Little Lulu. Uncle $crooge (Donald never interested me in the slightest). Classics Comics. And, of course, the EC horror comics. The four-color world, as you call it, has always had a strong influence on my work, particularly Salem’s Lot and The Stand.”
He also prefers Batman to Superman and speculates on Superman’s, um, “waste matters.”
