Connections To The Dark Tower
Even though Slade is, of course, a much shallower and most of all much less serious character than King's later creation Roland Deschain, Slade can be considered a first test run for the famous gunslinger:
- Like Slade, Roland pines for his lost love (Susan Delgado).
- Both smoke whenever possible.
- Both always hit what they shoot at.
- Both only speak when necessary and are used to journeying alone.
- Like the gunslingers in The Dark Tower (see especially Wolves of the Calla), Slade feels the obligation to help if called upon.
- Near the end of the Dark Tower-series, Roland must find out that he is only a fictitious character conceived by Stephen King. Slade is aware of that, too, but doesn't make a fuss about it. When Sandra exclaims that he arrived in time to save her, he says, "I always do. Steve King sees to that."
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