With the first Dark Tower mini-series wrapped up, PWCW talks to the creative team to assess the comics’ success:

PW Comics Week: There was a great deal of hype, when Dark Tower first launched, about the potential for crossover with the novel-reading audience. How have the Stephen King faithful responded to the comic?

Peter David: With the understanding that 85% of all statistics are made up, I’d say that the response has been about 95% positive. Overall, the King fans have been extremely supportive and enthused. They admire the skill with which Robin has boiled down the story, and they’re rapturous over Jae and Richard [Isanove]’s artwork. In fact, there have been many fans [of the comic] who never picked up [the] Dark Tower [prose novels] who have become so enamored of it [the story] that they’ve started reading the original novels.

Can we please everyone? Of course not. On the other hand, just to give you an idea of how demanding some can be. Several critics have claimed I’ve no ear for King’s voice and quoted lines of dialogue or narrative to underscore their point. Amazingly, the sections they typically hold up as examples of how off base I am… are direct quotes from the original text. So I have to say, if even Stephen King can’t sound enough like Stephen King to please some fans, I take some solace from that.

Also in this week’s newsletter: ADV is finally publishing more manga; Doug Wolk goes to Stumptown; Steve Rude and Mike Baron talk Nexus; and a pair of Webcomic stories.

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