Captain Trips is alive and well and living in the Ukraine!
Is that Randall Flagg I hear?
"The wind had picked up again, it made strange hooting sound in some empty doorway, and farther away he thought he could hear bootheels pacing off the night, rundown bootheels somewhere in the foothills coming to him on the chilly draft of this early morning breeze. Dirty bootheels clocking their way into the grave of the West."
To the people of the Ukraine on behalf of Randall Flagg I Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin send you greetings!