Quote Originally Posted by Spinebreaker View Post
Muskrat, those comics are officially endorsed by SK. He's pretty heavily involved... I doubt anything's making it in there that isn't 'official' as it were.
The timeline of the comics is contradicted by The Wind Through the Keyhole. Robin Furth has said that they represent an alternate-universe version of the stories, and that the events depicted therein are not in continuity with the events of the novels.

My guess -- which is purely a guess -- is that Mr. King stopped paying attention to the comics pretty early on in the process. After the third arc, they stopped feeling as though they had his touch to them; the arcs dealing with the fall of Gilead and the battle of Jericho Hill don't seem like "Stephen King" to me in any way.