And now for something completely unexpected and altogether… scary. It’s no secret that I, along with millions of others, love the work of the great Stephen King. It’s also no secret that we here at Comic Booked are a bit nutty about comics. So why not merge the worlds? Yes, it’s happened before (and some of them were even pretty decent), but why stop there? Ideally, we’d get an ongoing Nightmares & Dreamscapes series that would just adapt stories from the mind of the King over and over and over until time stopped, but in the meantime, we’ll just have to beg and hope for the best. And to be completely honest, this isn’t totally random. I’m currently teaching Pet Sematary (my favorite book of all time) to my American Lit students. So it’s, you know, topical and stuff.
Here are my top ten:
1. Firestarter
2. The Shining
3. Salem’s Lot
4. The Dead Zone
5. Pet Sematary
6. Dreamcatcher
7. Carrie
8. 11/22/63
9. Rose Madder
10. IT
You left out the coolness of Duma Key, the awesome contrasts of Desperation/The Regulators, and the real story (not the Arnold movie) that is The Running Man. That alone could set you up for a nice ongoing series.