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SPOILER - Micheal Whalen Drawings
First off I have to reiterate that this book has the best of illustrations out of them all.
I do need someone to clear one item up for me. All the drawings, with one exception I believe, accurately portray an event from the book.
The one exception is that of the Crimson King. Unless I glossed over it in my reading there was no scene such as that one depicted, was there? It is this picture that is probably causing a lot of the dissatisfaction over at the Dark Tower site. For it shows characters lying at his feet that creates expectations that Roland would have a more direct confrontation with the Crimson King.
The picture is, I believe, intended as a representation of all the people the Crimson King either directly or indirectly killed. Unfortunately, it has led many to envisage a false story point. I know I was waiting for a scenario where CK tempted Roland with all his dead friends.
Anyone else have the same experience?
I do need someone to clear one item up for me. All the drawings, with one exception I believe, accurately portray an event from the book.
The one exception is that of the Crimson King. Unless I glossed over it in my reading there was no scene such as that one depicted, was there? It is this picture that is probably causing a lot of the dissatisfaction over at the Dark Tower site. For it shows characters lying at his feet that creates expectations that Roland would have a more direct confrontation with the Crimson King.
The picture is, I believe, intended as a representation of all the people the Crimson King either directly or indirectly killed. Unfortunately, it has led many to envisage a false story point. I know I was waiting for a scenario where CK tempted Roland with all his dead friends.
Anyone else have the same experience?
Comments
It is the one where Feemalo, Fumalo and Fimalo depicts how the CK lined up the kitchen staff and women o' work and have them take rat poison and when they lay there begging and dying of thirst "he sat on his throne which was made of bone" quite like the title of the illustration.
Page 604 or 605 of the trade edition if I remember correctly.
It could be though. We'll never know. Perhaps they are the twinners of Susan and the Pere
Page 740:
"Patrick made a hooting sound and they both looked. He was holding his pad up, turned towards them so they could see what he had drawn. It was a perfect representation of the Unfound Door, she thought. THE ARTIST wasn't printed on it, and the doorknob was plain shiny metal -- no croseed pencils adorned it -- but that was all right. She hadn't bothered to tell him about those things, which has been for her benefit and understanding."
Just pickin' some nits, y'all...
Normally, I don't like the more literal interpretations (i.e. I prefer the pictures in vols 2, 4 and 6 to those in 1, 3 and 5). But in vol 7, Whelan has such a great skill in capturing the emotion or dramatic tension in a scene through his composition and colour. I also liked the sketches at the end of each chapter. An amazing accomplishment.
HBJ
The only scene that illustration fitted was Mordred plucking our Flagg's eyes.
I think the illustrations are more interpretations than actual events, and though the two illustrations of Flagg differ, I wonder if Whelan created two different versions of Flagg for the fans...a dark haired one and a blond haired one.