The Stand: Captain Trips
Issue: #4
Writer: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Artist: Mike Perkins
32 pp. Marvel. $3.99
Reviewed by Paul Stotts
The Apocalypse is near. Clouds dark as charcoal on the horizon, extinction lurking around the corner. The Captain Trips plague spreading, infecting, eventually killing. Hope evaporating from the world.
There is very little time left.
The latest issue of The Stand Captain Trips serves as the precursor of the apocalypse. A herald to the upcoming horror. The guy standing on the street wearing a placard proclaiming the End is Near! Only this time you believe him.
It’s hard not to with people dropping dead at your feet.
Tragedy overwhelms the issue. Characters die, families are destroyed, survivors cope. And we care. Care about Nick Andros trying to do the right thing. Care about Larry Underwood trying to salvage his life. Care about Frannie Goldsmith, pregnant, unmarried, suffering the wrath of her conservative mother. Care about how unfair the murderous plague is. Leaving you to ask why?
Why is this happening? Time threatens to run out before an answer is revealed. The clock is ticking on human kind.
Writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has been brilliant in adapting Stephen King’s novel into the comic medium. Taking all the emotion and horror from the classic horror novel and capturing it perfectly. More than just the plot, this is the essence of the novel. The very heart of King’s drama. The characters live, not as unfeeling superheroes, but as people. Flawed. Emotional. Barely able to hold it together. Their losses feel real. And untimely, leaving them scrambling to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. Too many pieces.
And the clouds are only growing darker on the horizon. Harboring something evil.
An unbelievable issue filled with powerful storytelling, wonderful characterizations and great art. A tremendous achievement.
Final Grade: 90 out of 100
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