Stephen King is writing more of the story of Roland Deschain, the gunslinger. He's focusing on Roland's early years, before the palaver with Martin (or whatever his anme was), and he's doing it with Marvel, which means it's gonna be a comic book! Should be cool.

I still can't help but express disappointment with the last two books of the Dark Tower series. COnsidering it's supposed to be his magnum opus, and he wrote the first four years and years apart from each other, I thought they felt rushed. One thing about The Dark Tower was that each book felt so rich and so different from his other books. He wasn't just churning them out one after another like everything else he writes. He always waited until the time was right. I guess he must have felt the time was right to write the last three in quick sucession, and I suppose feelings of mortality might make one want to finsih their life's work, but that's no reason to crap all over it. Even so, I found the ending to be masterful. It REALLY ticked me off at first, I was ready to go to Maine and punch the jerk, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it had to be that way. Still, I wish he'd actually done something with characters like Jack Sawyer. What was the point of Black House? It was a decent story, but he filled it with all this interweaving with the Dark Tower, and foreshadowing, and then didn't follow up at all.