The Dark Tower: Battle of Jericho Hill

This is the fifth book in the eleven book graphic novel series based on the Dark Tower books by Stephen King. This was an excellent installment in the series and moves the story along quite a bit.

Years have passed and Roland and his ka-tet have struggled to move on from Gilead and search out the Dark Tower. Just as things are looking interesting and Roland is preparing to take a stand against Farland, a traitor in their midst ruins all. This is the end of one era and the beginning of another.

I really enjoyed all the mythos about the Dark Tower and how its supports echo throughout the world. I also enjoyed all the action and fighting in this volume (there is quite a bit of it).

That being said this is probably the goriest and most show more depressing of the volumes yet. Although I was happy to see that Aileen was back in fighting style in this book and more than holding her own with her Gunslinging abilities.

Roland and his ka-tet are truly destroyed by a traitor in their midst and it is absolutely the end of an era. It leaves me very curious to see where the next volume will pick up.

I continue to really enjoy the detailed and full color illustration in this graphic novel series. These have been very well done.

Overall this was a well done continuation of this gritty western fantasy set in a post-apocalyptic type of world. I enjoyed the expanded mythos around the Dark Tower and am curious as to what the next volume will hold for us. I would recommend this graphic novel series to fans of dark fantasy. show less

This was another beautiful installment in the Dark Tower series. The artwork is stunning, even though I am missing Jae Lee.



Taking place 9 years after the fall of Gilead, we pick up the ka-tet attempting to stand against the forces of evil at Jericho Hill. This is where it all happens, (no spoilers), and I'll admit it brought a tear to this cold heart.

I can't wait for the next one! (Thanks to my local library, I don't have to!)

This volume comes with a TON of sadness.

Gorgeous art, as always, but it's hard to see all of one's friends die on the battlefield. This should have been the end of all the gunslingers and Roland as well.

At least we now have the final, horrific bridge between his hard youth and the beginning of his long wandering and his quest for the Dark Tower.

*shiver*

This one was well met. Well met, indeed.

Probably the best story line of the series so far. As usual, the artwork is amazing (although the way they draw some of the faces is still odd to me) and the writing is getting much, much better. My only real gripe is the way it ended; no way do Farson's men leave Roland for dead without knowing he truly is dead. Granted, from the books we know Jericho Hill was a bloodbath, but I think the writers here needed to come up with a better way for Roland to survive than the antagonists simply leaving the battlefield assuming everyone's dead.

The backstory of Roland Deschain marches on towards its inevitable conclusion and we finally arrive at the infamous Battle of Jericho Hill—long alluded to in the novels. I imagined it to be like a Custer's Last Stand of Mid-World.

The plot is thinner here than the climactic Fall of Gilead though I think that's to be expected. The Battle of Jericho Hill is the dark coda of a long decline, of an empire and for Roland personally.

I have really enjoyed the Marvel adaptation of the Dark Tower series, and this latest installment is no exception. In fact, I like it more than some of the others because I think it gets the balance right between words and pictures. The graphics of this series are great, but some earlier installments seemed to be nearly *all* graphics. I'm intrigued b the Dark Tower world but I don't enjoy reading Stephen King's works, so this comic gives me the best of both worlds. In this one, Roland Deschain fights on, in spite of the fall of Gilead. He has some successes but the overwheming feeling of impending doom --notable throughout this series -- continues. And is validated.

This is the fifth and final book in the first "chapter" of prequels to Stephen King's Dark Tower series. For some reason, this book was the only one that didn't compel me to read it from cover to cover in one sitting. Thankfully, illustrator Jae Lee was back for this edition so the artwork is amazing (even if brutal), but there's just not much of a plot to this one. It probably could have been shorter and fared well for that, as the final chapter/issue was really the core here. When Aileen was introduced in Treachery, I thought she was a fabulous character so I'm disappointed they didn't do more with her in this book. Overall, after anticipating reading this book for several months, I just felt "meh" about it.