This book, as a culmination of 2 years of story telling, is a little disappointing. The epic battle of Jericho Hill is only mentioned two or three times in the novels. However, in two or three paragraphs of text it seemed a thousand times more epic and important than this scene.

The art is generally excellent. Moody, dark and full of maliciousness. It can be stiff and doesn’t necessarily flow into each scene segment naturally. Sometimes it seems like a still frame from a movie where you are only seeing every 30th second. Despite the shortcomings, I like the art.

The story barely scrapes the high notes of this momentous event in the Dark Tower mythology. While ‘realistically’ the battle probably took a matter of hours, there should have been more build up inside. More heroism, more abject failure. All in all this feels like they were told to tie this up this issue when there was more story to tell.