The Stand: Captain Trips
Issue: #5
Writer: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Artist: Mike Perkins
32 pp. Marvel. $3.99
Reviewed by Paul Stotts
The end is here. Finally. And something evil this way comes. And it comes in the form of Randall Flagg. The Walkin Dude. The Boogeyman. Chaos personified. The face of hell in the form of a man.
And the press heralds his arrival. At least indirectly. Nothing the media loves more than bad news; this is even worse. The truth has finally arrived, bits and pieces suddenly hitting the airwaves, leaking out despite a massive government cover-up. About the severity of the Captain Trips virus, and the widespread death toll it’s causing. About how deadly it is, how there’s no vaccine. No hope.
What does revealing this dark truth get you? It gets you silenced. Permanently.
I’ve run out of superlatives to describe Marvel’s incredible adaptation of Stephen King’s classic novel, “The Stand.” Leaving only lint at the bottom of my Big Bag of Superlatives. Just when I thought Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s scripts couldn’t get any better, he hits me with this stunner. Clearly his best work, in a series filled with amazing writing. This issue is about as close to perfection as you’ll get, lyrical and enthralling. Comic literature. A horror poem in thirty-two verses. Unbelievable.
Okay, now my Big Bag of Superlatives really is exhausted.
Final Grade: 94 out of 100
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