LATimes: On King's Comic

COMICS KING - Los Angeles Times: "STEPHEN KING's 'The Dark Tower,' a magnum opus about a haunted gunslinger on a quest for a mysterious spire, stretched out over 22 years, seven novels and a staggering 4,272 pages of eerie adventure.

But here's the really spooky thing: King fans want more.

Now they're about to get it, although this time around King is taking his readership to a new place that might scare some of them off. 'The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born,' the Marvel Comics series, launches next week, and more than 100 retailers nationwide are opening their stores for midnight release parties. Despite that intense interest, King knows he will have to persuade many of his longtime readers that comics are now more than juvenilia."