You may hear about Stephen King plagiarizing "The Dark Tower" from a comic book called "The Rook" and here are the three main reasons you should ignore it:
1) The Rook used his chess rook shaped tower to regularly travel though time and space. The Dark Tower is just a cosmic reset button only used once by Roland Deschain.
2) The Rook is a hyper intelligent physicist who dresses like a gunslinger and makes plans that always miraculously (bad writing be praised) work in McGyver like fasion. Roland Deschain is an ACTUAL GUNSLINGER who makes mistakes all the time and has to learn from them along his Hero's Journey.
3) The Weird West genre was around for a long time before either story, dating back to the pulps.
If anything, the BBC should be suing Warren Publishing for blatantly ripping off Dr. Who.
(Posted by Craig Bertuglia, professional comic book geek, Houston Public Library)
1) The Rook used his chess rook shaped tower to regularly travel though time and space. The Dark Tower is just a cosmic reset button only used once by Roland Deschain.
2) The Rook is a hyper intelligent physicist who dresses like a gunslinger and makes plans that always miraculously (bad writing be praised) work in McGyver like fasion. Roland Deschain is an ACTUAL GUNSLINGER who makes mistakes all the time and has to learn from them along his Hero's Journey.
3) The Weird West genre was around for a long time before either story, dating back to the pulps.
If anything, the BBC should be suing Warren Publishing for blatantly ripping off Dr. Who.
(Posted by Craig Bertuglia, professional comic book geek, Houston Public Library)