The Stand: Hardcases #1 (of 5)

The Trashcan Man was spared for a reason… to join the Dark Man Randall Flagg’s swelling army and to set the world on fire.

It’s a dream come true for the pyromaniac, but he has to reach Flagg’s compound in Las Vegas first–and, somehow, survive crossing paths with ‘the Kid,’ a hardcase who’s even crazier and more dangerous than Trashy is! The villains are front-and-center as we cross the mid-point of this epic adaptation of Stephen King’s horror masterpiece!

Trashy: a pyromaniac who bears the scars of his own flames, tormented by dreams in which a mysterious woman beckons him to join her.

The Kid: a rockabilly psychopath who is in love with the sound of his own voice, and who also has a bit of a thing for, um, men. But is it more hate than love?

What happens when dysfunctional events lead these two debased devils to their, er, “climax”? (If you catch my meaning…) And what kind of retribution will be paid for the abusive indiscretion? I can only guarantee you this: it completely kicks ass in a supernatural kind of way.

The next chapter of Stephen King’s tour de force begins here, faithfully brought to comic book life by writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and artist Mike Perkins. I had my doubts that anyone would ever be able to adapt The Stand to comic form without completely making asses of themselves, but I see it turns out that I was the ass for thinking that.

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