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[stevenagy]

Second book for TwentyTen is The Stand: Captain Trips. It collects the first five issues of Marvel's graphic novel adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand.

Suffice to say that I enjoyed this opening book, which is the first of five planned story arcs. The Stand is one of my personal favorites of King's work. I remember picking up the paperback

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[sksperry]

I found a hardcover of The Stand in a used bookstore a few years back (same cover as the one in your picture) and picked it up for about $7. Still one of my all-time favourite books.

[stevenagy]

That version is pretty tight.

The uncut one is good, and I enjoyed some of the extra's. It's like the director's cut versions of The Lord of the Rings. It's hard to ignore them, since they're offering more of something you really really like and want.

I find it interesting how the comic adaptation uses a lot of stuff from that rather than the original. Starts with the initial outbreak and the guard Campion escaping rather than the good old boy scene at the gas station. Which was a more effective scene as an opening, contrasting the mundane against the weird.