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The Stand: Captain Trips
Stephen King The Stand: Captain Trips #3
Writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa teams with artist Mike Perkins for issue #3 of this great Stephen King comic event!
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Comic
First published November 12, 2008
About the author
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
452 books479 followersRoberto 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.
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.
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March 22, 2017
And Spreading.. So does the Madness..
Lloyd
As Captain Trips spreading, bad guys do as well.
Lloyed is one, careless criminal... and he's arrested, but for how long?
The Government
Is doing its best on Stu to know how he's one of the very few rare immune people..
But at the same time, they're covering their Huge Mistake, the Superflu, The Captain Trips.. as dirty as they can.. after all, it's their's creation..
But Stu isn't the only immune, there's;
Frannie
Who has a mini Stand with her mother, which is her reaction about her daughter's pregnancy is 180 degree opposite of her father's.
And
Larry Underwood
In New York, he's unaware that his mother little cold is more ominous than it looks..
-I still recommend the novel in Fran and Larry parts, it's deeper and touching and written in a marvellous professional way... may be that's why I didn't like it much here in the comics-
Nick
He became a deputy for the sheriff who also, as Larry's Mother, suffer a normal little cold..
And between the Vast Spreading for Captain Trips, and the dirty Cover ups by it's creator, the Military asses.
TBC in the next volume.
Mohmammed Arabey
20 March 2017
Lloyd
As Captain Trips spreading, bad guys do as well.
Lloyed is one, careless criminal... and he's arrested, but for how long?
The Government
Is doing its best on Stu to know how he's one of the very few rare immune people..
But at the same time, they're covering their Huge Mistake, the Superflu, The Captain Trips.. as dirty as they can.. after all, it's their's creation..
But Stu isn't the only immune, there's;
Frannie
Who has a mini Stand with her mother, which is her reaction about her daughter's pregnancy is 180 degree opposite of her father's.
And
Larry Underwood
In New York, he's unaware that his mother little cold is more ominous than it looks..
-I still recommend the novel in Fran and Larry parts, it's deeper and touching and written in a marvellous professional way... may be that's why I didn't like it much here in the comics-
Nick
He became a deputy for the sheriff who also, as Larry's Mother, suffer a normal little cold..
And between the Vast Spreading for Captain Trips, and the dirty Cover ups by it's creator, the Military asses.
TBC in the next volume.
Mohmammed Arabey
20 March 2017
January 8, 2025
Excited to see the rest of the baddies.
September 22, 2019
Is it bad i laughed at "poke" getting shot the second time, i mean there are two people and one of them's already shot with his half his face off, so it was probably smarter to shoot the other one, but no let's shoot the one halfway dead xd
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