Comments on: On the Art of Covers http://www.philippalmer.net/2009/11/22/on-the-art-of-covers/ Philip Palmer on writing for print, radio and screen Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:44:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Philip Palmer http://www.philippalmer.net/2009/11/22/on-the-art-of-covers/comment-page-1/#comment-639 Philip Palmer Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:21:59 +0000 http://www.philippalmer.net/?p=528#comment-639 Okay, you've got me hooked again...I read an online review of books 5-7 that sank my spirits, but if I don't have faith in King...what hope is there...? Okay, you've got me hooked again...I read an online review of books 5-7 that sank my spirits, but if I don't have faith in King...what hope is there...?

]]> By: J.E.Cole http://www.philippalmer.net/2009/11/22/on-the-art-of-covers/comment-page-1/#comment-638 J.E.Cole Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:48:00 +0000 http://www.philippalmer.net/?p=528#comment-638 Wizard and Glass is by far the weakest of the series. It took me nearly two months to work through it. HOWEVER, the fifth book, Wolves of the Calla more than makes up for the fourth books meandering and grating pace. From there on in the series moves at breakneck speed towards its conclusion. Give it a shot. Yes, Jae Lee's work is slight beautiful isn't it:) Wizard and Glass is by far the weakest of the series. It took me nearly two months to work through it. HOWEVER, the fifth book, Wolves of the Calla more than makes up for the fourth books meandering and grating pace. From there on in the series moves at breakneck speed towards its conclusion.

Give it a shot.

Yes, Jae Lee's work is slight beautiful isn't it:)

]]> By: Philip Palmer http://www.philippalmer.net/2009/11/22/on-the-art-of-covers/comment-page-1/#comment-636 Philip Palmer Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:32:24 +0000 http://www.philippalmer.net/?p=528#comment-636 Thanks a million for that! I couldn't remember the artist's name and now I shall never forget it. I've spent half an hour scrolling through the images of Jae Lee's art for THE DARK TOWER on the second of the two links above - and it's all just utterly utterly majestic, a vision of the young Roland and his world that is convincing and beautiful and eerily compelling. And I was delighted to see the book is being co-written by my fave author Peter David. Now I have a problem with The Dark Tower - and I speak here as Stephen King's 'greatest fan' (cackle cackle.) My problem is this: Book 1 is genius. Book 2 is flawed genius. Book 3, in my view, is really awful - but sometimes great writers take great risks, so bizarrely, I can forgive awful. Book 4, however, Wizard and Glass, is in my view MEDIOCRE. It jogs along, one damn thing happens then another, the mythologies are jumbled, the characters are flat and cliched, and there's not a single solitary thing that compares with the majestic sequence in The Gunslinger when Roland kills every single inhabitant of a sleepy Western town. I stopped reading Dark Tower after Book 4 - I do fancy the graphic novel prequel, but as far as the books are concerned, I lost faith in King's ability to sustain his story over all 7 volumes (plus an 8th being muttered about.) Am I wrong? Am I missing something? Should I be barred from the Stephen King fan club? (And should me and Kathy Bates form a separate club of our own?) Thanks a million for that! I couldn't remember the artist's name and now I shall never forget it.

I've spent half an hour scrolling through the images of Jae Lee's art for THE DARK TOWER on the second of the two links above - and it's all just utterly utterly majestic, a vision of the young Roland and his world that is convincing and beautiful and eerily compelling. And I was delighted to see the book is being co-written by my fave author Peter David.

Now I have a problem with The Dark Tower - and I speak here as Stephen King's 'greatest fan' (cackle cackle.) My problem is this: Book 1 is genius. Book 2 is flawed genius. Book 3, in my view, is really awful - but sometimes great writers take great risks, so bizarrely, I can forgive awful.

Book 4, however, Wizard and Glass, is in my view MEDIOCRE. It jogs along, one damn thing happens then another, the mythologies are jumbled, the characters are flat and cliched, and there's not a single solitary thing that compares with the majestic sequence in The Gunslinger when Roland kills every single inhabitant of a sleepy Western town.

I stopped reading Dark Tower after Book 4 - I do fancy the graphic novel prequel, but as far as the books are concerned, I lost faith in King's ability to sustain his story over all 7 volumes (plus an 8th being muttered about.)

Am I wrong? Am I missing something? Should I be barred from the Stephen King fan club? (And should me and Kathy Bates form a separate club of our own?)

]]> By: J.E.Cole http://www.philippalmer.net/2009/11/22/on-the-art-of-covers/comment-page-1/#comment-635 J.E.Cole Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:51:34 +0000 http://www.philippalmer.net/?p=528#comment-635 The artist who provided the illustration for The Electric Church is Jae Lee. He's a Korean-American artist who is currently adapting the prequal series to Stephen King's Dark Tower saga for Marvel comics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jae_Lee http://marvel.com/catalog/?artist=Jae%20Lee The artist who provided the illustration for The Electric Church is Jae Lee. He's a Korean-American artist who is currently adapting the prequal series to Stephen King's Dark Tower saga for Marvel comics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jae_Lee

http://marvel.com/catalog/?artist=Jae%20Lee

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