Stephen King’s The Stand Book 3: Soul Survivors
Stephen King’s The Stand Book 3: Soul Survivors, Adapted by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa & Mike Perkins, Marvel
DREAMS ARE bringing the survivors of the life-destroying virus Captain Trips to the front porch of an old blind woman going by the name of Mother Abagail. She’s on the side of angels, as opposed to the dark nightmare visions that Randall Flagg has, and apparently shares with others; tempting them like some modern snake in the tumbling weeds of what’s left of Eden...
For the rest of the world is never mentioned, forsaken presumably in a metaphorical lake of fire.
As ever with these collections we are treated to stories within stories, but they progressively deepen and begin to take meaning, for as they congregate at Mother Abagail’s it begins to feel like a clearer picture of what the promised revelations will be; sides chosen more clearly and battle lines drawn.
At least you hope so.
It’s still a case of biding time, rather than getting in the thick of it, but it’s mostly charismatically written in its adaptation and visually engrossing.
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