Stephen King's The Stand: Captain Trips, #2

The Stand: Captain Trips

by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Stephen King, Mike Perkins (Illustrator)

Stephen King's horror epic continues in this issue as the unseen killer, the super-flu Captain Trips, spreads across the entire country, a tide of disease and death. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, in the Center for Disease Control, the US government has taken a keen interest in Stuart Redman, who seems to be the only person immune to the Captain Trips infection. They are determined to find out why--with or without Stu's cooperation. And what do the recurring nightmares Stu's been having--about a dark man with red eyes standing in a cornfield--mean? Plus: Frannie Goldsmith and her father! Larry Underwood in New York! And Nick Andros takes a wrong turn in Shoyo, Arkansas!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

Comic

First published October 8, 2008

About the author

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is an American playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer best known for his work for Marvel Comics and for the television series Glee, Big Love, Riverdale, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He is Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics.
Aguirre-Sacasa grew up liking comic books, recalling in 2003, "My mom would take us out to the 7-Eleven on River Road during the summer, and we would get Slurpees and buy comics off the spinning rack. I would read them all over and over again, and draw my own pictures and stuff."
He began writing for Marvel Comics, he explained, when "Marvel hired an editor to find new writers, and they hired her from a theatrical agency. So she started calling theaters and asking if they knew any playwrights who might be good for comic books. A couple of different theaters said she should look at me. So she called me, I sent her a couple of my plays and she said 'Great, would you like to pitch on a couple of comic books in the works?'"
His first submissions were "not what [they were] interested in for the character[s]" but eventually he was assigned an 11-page Fantastic Four story, "The True Meaning of...," for the Marvel Holiday Special 2004. He went on to write Fantastic Four stories in Marvel Knights 4, a spinoff of that superhero team's long-running title; and stories for Nightcrawler vol. 3; The Sensational Spider-Man vol. 2; and Dead of Night featuring Man-Thing.
In May 2008 Aguirre-Sacasa returned to the Fantastic Four with a miniseries tie-in to the company-wide "Secret Invasion" storyline concerning a years-long infiltration of Earth by the shape-shifting alien race, the Skrulls,and an Angel Revelations miniseries with artists Barry Kitson and Adam Polina, respectively. He adapted for comics the Stephen King novel The Stand.

In 2013, he created Afterlife with Archie, depicting Archie Andrews in the midst of a zombie apocalypse; the book's success led to Aguirre-Sacasa being named Archie Comics' chief creative officer.

Reviews

[Mohammed Arabey]

And it's spreading..

Captain Trips
Busy doing his state tour.. in this issue
It starts with the Government Facility where our beloved Captain Trips is born..
Then spreading from Texas to as many states as possible.

The very good in this issue is that also you got a moment of truth of some characters.. you get to know them more now

Stu Redman
He's the established first character to be announced immune to the Captain Trips..
the comic captured his fun spirit here -the cough joke-
He also got the "allowed" truth from the doctor who make tastes on him.

Frannie
The spontaneous sweet girl.. Well, her relation with her dad is so nice, and the comic here again captured it fine.. also her Frannie's giggles :)

BUT seriously , if you ever liked her in this comic you must read the full details on the novel.
And you'll love even more ;
Larry Underwood
you'll love him even though He ain't no nice guy

The scene of the movie theater was so creepy in the novel.... and glad they caught it here

And finally, there's
Nick Andros
A mute..some bad guys beat him up in a small town, but the sheriff will make justice , as his last deed..

I just love this issue, but the heat is just beginning, and the storm is yet to come.

Mohammed Arabey
19 March 2017

[Rahul Matthew]

MARVELous I say:)3 more to go!!!

[itchy]

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