#SDCC - Dark Tower Choo-Choo and Planet Hulk

It's been an exciting Saturday!
 

Without a doubt, the most sought after collectible at Comic-Con today (at least for Steven King fans) was a hardcover book called Charlie the Choo-Choo, a bit of Dark Tower viral promotion from Simon & Schuster. Only 150 copies of the book were handed out - with no barcode, never to be sold in stores, the 19 page "children's book" quickly showed up on eBay for anywhere between $1,600 and $5,000. 

Charlie the Choo-Choo is kind of a dimensional ripple of Blaine the Mono, the sinister bullet train from book 3 of The Dark Tower series, The Waste Lands. 

Simon & Schuster had fictional author "Beryl Evans" there to autograph copies, despite the fact that she was murdered decades ago in another dimension. This is cross-platform marketing at its very best.

 

If like me, you're sobbing at not having nabbed a copy, the fine folks at Entertainment Weekly have hooked us up with the entire book, gallery-style, here.
 

In other news, a very cool reveal came from Marvel Studios, where a display of enormous armor and weapons confirmed that the events of next year's Thor: Ragnarok will indeed integrate in the fan-fave Planet Hulk storyline, with the Big Green One fighting gladiator-style on Planet Sakaar!

 

Also, we learned that Brie Larson will be taking on the role of Captain Marvel..

...and the new Star Trek TV series will be called Star Trek Discovery.

 

Very cool indeed. Look for Thor: Ragnarok November 2017, which as we've seen today, is shaping up to be one helluva year!