Comments on: TrekInk: Review Assignment: Earth #4 + Previews of Upcoming Trek Comics

By: Andrew Steven Harris

Andrew Steven Harris — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:41:44 +0000

#15 — not sure which one you’re talking about, but I’d recommend against judging various storylines/artwork/etc. based on a single issue. There’ve been lots of great creators who’ve been working on the Trek books lately–Peter David, John Byrne, DC Fontana, the veteran Gordon Purcell–and I think you’ve made a really good choice with the MU series, which has been really good. If you like it, you should pick up the Klingons: Blood Will Tell series that IDW produced last year, with the same creative team, and which has garnered all sorts of critical praise (deservedly so, I think).

By: CJTK1701

CJTK1701 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:35:57 +0000

I’ve only read one of the IDW comics thus far and I’m sorry to say that I’m not impressed. At times the art work is brilliant and at times it is very simplistic, thus far the storylines have been very weak, relying on cliche’s and not really giving forth with the heroism and character developement that TOS gave us. I actually prefer the old “Gold Key” comics to what I’ve seen so far. I’m willing to read another comic and in fact have a reserved copy of the MU series on the way, however, if things don’t pick up and get a bit more interesting I wont be buying any more.

By: James R. Kirk

James R. Kirk — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:00:36 +0000

You know, the teaser/caption picture on the front page looks awfully “suggestive.” I have to say though, I like that as an idea of pulling in readers!

By: OM

OM — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:53:33 +0000

…Hey, who knows? Byrne might be trying to tell us that My Mother, The Car was nothing but a trick of Beta-5 snobbery :-)

By: John Trumbull

John Trumbull — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:20:53 +0000

I don’t know about the rest of IDW’s line, but Byrne does his own word balloon placements. He prints them out on the page before he starts drawing them, since that saves him the trouble of drawing in the areas that would eventually be covered by the dialogue. That’s why most of his word balloons tend to converge around the top of the panel like that.

Nice movie-era Mirror Universe uniforms there. They remind me of some versions I designed back in high school.

By: Anthony Pascale

Anthony Pascale — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:46:29 +0000

thanks Andrew I updated the article with that cover

By: Andrew Steven Harris

Andrew Steven Harris — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:07:33 +0000

#2 — That’s just the retailer incentive cover, which is just an homage to do something different and unusual for the limited edition. The main cover is here:

http://tinyurl.com/6kj8q7

And while it’s inspired in theme by DoFP, it’s definitely *not* the DoFP story. (No, you won’t find Wesley Crusher getting time-switched with his future self in the holodeck…)

By: Andy Patterson

Andy Patterson — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:03:54 +0000

“And that’s not all, Byrne has also confirmed he will ‘definitely’ be doing another Assignment Earth series in 2009, so even after next months issue, we will not have seen the last of Gary and Roberta.”

Yay! Let’s go John. Looking forward to it. Maybe this’ll get it made into a series. I know someone who’s come up with that idea already.

By: The Gorn Identity

The Gorn Identity — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:14:58 +0000

For those of you who are hesitant to try IDW’s Star Trek comics, I say hesitate no longer. The books are wonderful. Particularly “Mirror Images” and DC Fontana’s “The Enterprise Experiment”. Also, I would urge everyone to check out “Klingons: Blood Will Tell” now available in trade paperback.

As far as “The Last Generation” goes, I was going to bypass that series because I was wholly unimpressed by that X-Men-esque cover. However, after seeing the alternate covers for issues 1 and 2, I’ve gotta say I’ll be checking it out.

By: THX-1138 The Fandom Menace

THX-1138 The Fandom Menace — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:41:42 +0000

You mention Seven’s bosses (Greg Cox called them the Aegis) and then don’t show them?

Alex, you’re a tease.