The Stand: Captain Trips #1

Posted by: cyberghostface " The Stand is one of my favorite novels, too; that’s why I signed-on for the long haul. Along with The Great Gatsby , Heart of Darkness , and Dracula , it’s one of the few novels I’ve read more than once. (And I get more out of it each time I re-read it.) And, like you, I believe its themes and its scope make it one for the ages, as they like to say. Also, it’s just a brilliant, gripping story that works beautifully as pure entertainment. Honoring that, first and foremost, is my main goal. I want this series to be a great read. I want people who have never encountered The Stand before to get a sense of how truly epic it is; and, fingers crossed, thirty issues will let us do that (hopefully). I want people who, like me, have read the novel to experience it in a new, fresh, literate—but also (obviously) visual—way. I want it to be a page-turner with surprising depth, complexity, and heart. Ambitious enough, do you think?" -- Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa In 2008, Marvel released an adaptation of  The Stand  by Stephen King that ran for four years. I tried my best to cover the major beats but it goes without saying that this is a fairly dense series and a lot had to be hacked away. I definitely recommend reading the original novel. NSFW for gore (  Scans under the cut...  ) comments