Comments on: TrekInk: Revisiting the ‘First Mission’

By: Andy Patterson

Andy Patterson — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:29:52 +0000

Good. Danke.

By: JGC

JGC — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:42:11 +0000

A superb comic,One of my all-time faves.Nothing spectacular,just a honest way to tie the two Captains together in a typical Star Trek fashion.

By: Alex Fletcher / Sulfur

Alex Fletcher / Sulfur — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:25:21 +0000

re: #36

I’m told that Assignment: Earth will be out last week of May.

So… two weeks from now (give or take).

By: OM

OM — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:34:50 +0000

…When this comic came out, there was a lot of discussion on both the FIDOnet and WWIVnet Trek groups about which was more acceptable – the comic, or Vonda McIntyre’s novel. Based on the postings and heavy debaate, the comic was preferred over the novel by at least a 40-to-1 ratio. In fact, there were only a couple of “power posters” on both BBS networks who staunchly supported the novel over the comic, and those were known “Vonda Apologists”.

…IIRC, Barr was asked about this story at a convention not long afterwards, and he’d admitted that a) he’d read Vonda’s novel, b) didn’t like it at all, and c) intended from the start to come up with a “Kirk takes command” story that was far more apropos for TOS and acceptable to the fans. He also deliberately avoided the “who was the XO – Spock or Mitchell?” debate as he was more interested in telling a better story, which he clearly did.

It makes me smile as much as it hurts to see these old Trek comics from DC. Smile because they were really done well, and DC made sure they weren’t crap. Hurt because it wouldn’t be too long after this that Richard “Melakon” Arnold got his gagh-stained claws into the Trek licensing, and fracked everything up so bad that even 15+ years after his ouster, things still aren’t up to the level of quality that existed when this Annual came out.

Which is why even today, with only one leg left, I would still try to find a way to kick Richard Arnold in the balls as hard as I could….:P

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:55:15 +0000

15. lostrod – May 12, 2008 Wow Iostrod you brought back the memories of the ST strip which I also clipped and I think pasted onto paper.;) Fun stuff we do as a kid. I believe I have seen web sites in the past post all of this work and yes I thought the strip had some pretty damn good work. Although the only bum deal is with modern strips it was pretty small and not well printed. Sometime and somehow check out a comic strip from the 30s/40s I have seen them framed at comic cons, galleries, etc. It is mindblowing the size and printed quality they had!

In fact what the heck check out these links dealing with the STAR TREK comic strip…
http://homepage.mac.com/mmtz/stcomix/ustosstrips.html

If one searches there may be more out there…

By: Andy Patterson

Andy Patterson — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:25:58 +0000

Andrew Steven Harris,

When may we see the Byrne Assignment: Earth book? I remember reading May. My local comics shop still hasn’t goten it.

By: diabolik

diabolik — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:19:34 +0000

#15… yes, that’s right, they were excellent. I clipped out all I could get, which were only a few, but Istill have them, like you, stashed somewhere in among my collected stuff.

Too bad we never saw a collected book of the strips.

By: diabolik

diabolik — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:07:20 +0000

#32…. riiiight. I misspoke, but the sentiments are the same…

By: Darryl

Darryl — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:43:27 +0000

I used to have that comic.

Until Hurricane Floyd flooded my basement and ruined 80% of my Trek collection.

Never keep your Trek stuff in the basement, I had to learn that the hard way.

By: bill hiro

bill hiro — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:16:45 +0000

” … were the DC comics that came out starting with the TMP adaptation.”

That was Marvel. The DC series didn’t start til post-”Wrath of Khan”.