Marvel Comics -- which is already having a banner year, to put it mildly -- is continuing its unlikely-but-extremely cool relationship with "the world's bestselling author" Stephen King. Having had a massive success adapting King's Dark Tower series to comic book form (the first series arc, Gunslinger Born is now available as a graphic novel, the second series, The Long Road Home finishes its five issue arc today), Marvel is now hard at work turning King's arguably-most-popular work, The Stand, into graphic form. It will be six five-issue miniseries, or 30 issues in all.

The first issue, The Stand: Captain Trips, is scheduled to be released in September. Since this is one of my favorite novels ever, I am very excited about this. Especially with excellent job Marvel has done with The Dark Tower, and the talent behind this new adaptation.

Below is a video interview with project artist Mike Perkins, who gives some fascinating input into this massive undertaking. Check it out.


INTERVIEW WITH MARVEL ARTIST MIKE PERKINS