Comments on: TrekInk: Review Intelligence Gathering + Preview DC Fontana Comic

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:03:11 +0000

Thanks Vulcanista, I will!

As to my earlier posting (#23)… ack, typos galore… I didn’t mean to say they should use “MY” multi-plot stories… just multi-plots stories (although I do write, and write a lot, I haven’t written any TREK stories since the mid 90s), in fact, I was almost published by Gold Key in 1979 when they owned the rights to TREK, but it just didn’t pan out. Drat!

AND if anyone wishes to write while I am in Afghanistan, please feel free to do so.

By: The Vulcanista

The Vulcanista — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:39:29 +0000

#23

Travel safe, stay safe!

Come talk to us in the chat folder as you can!

Peace. Live long and prosper.
The Vulcanista }:-|

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:14:37 +0000

Does anyone know the exact April release date for the first of Fontana’s Year Four issues?

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:02:57 +0000

Greetings from Kuwait (I just arrived tohis afternoon… am here a week or so before shipping off to Afghanistan for one year)!

#22: I agree somewhat. I would prefer multi-issue story arcs. I find the artwork decent, but find the stories far too simplistic, which I believe could be rectified by doing my dimensional, multi-plot stories.

I do like them, but think they can do better.

Course, with me off in theater I will not get an opportunity to see the comics again for awhile.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:07:12 +0000

#1- Wow… To each their own I guess. I couldn’t agree with you less about IDW’s Trek comics thus far. I haven’t tried them all, but the ones I have left me seriously underwhelmed. I won’t go into all my gripes (I did that plenty a week or two back in one of the more recent Trek comic threads), but the stories have been pretty dull, the characterization flat, and very little dialogue.

I love comics, but not comics that I can whip through in under five minutes. Especially not at $3 a pop. Trek should make me think, and IDW’s Trek simply hasn’t. Maybe I’m just spoiled on those really good Trek comics from DC in the 90’s? Could be.

I might flip through the O’Brien/TNG story and the D.C. Fontana story when they appear at my local comic shop. They both have potential, especially Fontana’s. Perhaps she’ll write a better story than what I’ve seen from IDW up to this point. If anyone can, she can.

The O’Brien story has me hoping that IDW will do a DS9 comic at some point, because that will get my attention (and hopefully it’ll be good stuff, worthy of the DS9 name).

By: Bones Thugs & McCoy

Bones Thugs & McCoy — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:59:21 +0000

IDW’s Alien Spotlight series was the shizznit & it is coming out in Trade Paperback some time this year

By: Cato the Llama

Cato the Llama — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:30:57 +0000

Now this isn’t a canon complaint . . . just a little observation. Anybody notice that the screen behind Miles and Geordi has the cutaway map of the Enterprise E instead of the D on it? :P

By: Kirk's Toupee

Kirk's Toupee — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:12:19 +0000

Is that alien next to Kirk out of the animated series??

By: thebiggfrogg

thebiggfrogg — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:04:43 +0000

I concur: ARREEEEEXXXX!

By: Iowagirl

Iowagirl — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:26:40 +0000

It’s great to still have pioneers like D.C. Fontana who are most capable of capturing the spirit of classic Trek. And those illustrations do look very promising. Although I’m not actually a comic fan, I am looking forward to this series.