Comments on: TrekInk: Review – Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan #2

By: screaming satellite

screaming satellite — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:49:14 +0000

50 – man the way ur going on ud think a chimpanzee drew it all….with a jack russel doing the inking

its not THAT bad…as i said in an eariler post i think its been done to ‘feel’ like its an adaptation done in 1982 and contains differences and ‘mistakes’ like the other adaptations have (Trek III)

By: Shatterhand

Shatterhand — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:56:07 +0000

Gods, how this adaptation upsets me. This could’ve been AMAZING. In the hands of the right artist, the comic could’ve made the story look all the more epic. This…this has got to be some of the worst drawing and inking I’ve ever seen on ANY comic in at least 5 years. Did any of these people actually SEE the movie? Were they going for something different, like a reinterpretation? They need to throw us a bone here, because while I don’t want to overdose on nerd pills by saying this book is sacrilegious to its source material, I can’t think of an insult more appropriate.

I’ve been buying all of the IDW comics to show support for the franchise (even though I have net sources that could get them all for me), but this one I can’t bring myself to spend money on.

By: TonyD

TonyD — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:59:47 +0000

This TWOK comic is a mediocre effort across the board: lousy artwork, lazy screen grabs, spotty grammar, continuity errors, odd omissions, weak covers (the one where Kirk looks like Checkov with a tribble on his head is my favorite), etc. It has all the earmarks of a rushed product, probably released when it was in some misguided effort to ride the wave of popularity the new movie has created. Given the target audience for something like this you’d think the publishers would have invested some more care in putting out a better product. An utterly unimaginative money-grabbing effort all around.

By: Digginjim

Digginjim — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:21:52 +0000

Not impressed with this artwork at all… because the movie is so written into the DNA of Trek fans the dialogue, speech patterns etc are part of our experience of Trek – seeing dialogue added, missing or rewritten just seems odd – it kind of highlights the pointlessness of this adaption. In some ways it should either be a slavish/faithful adaption or should add something new – these comics don’t appear to do either. I can’t help but hear Horners score at certain points, but with various lines rewritten or in the wrong order it just feels wrong……

By: warpspeed

warpspeed — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:41:37 +0000

omg, another bad star trek comic! Awful artwork! all the characters are drawn weird. just bad……..sorry guys. just doesnt capture the spirit of the movie at all. but then im not surprised, Star Trek comics always get mediocre artwork anyways.

By: MvRojo

MvRojo — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:46:38 +0000

#45 – The thing that bugs me is that IDW has people who can do amazing work. Pretty much every other series IDW has put out has had really well-done art.

By: Bostonian

Bostonian — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:00:16 +0000

We got Covers A & B of TWOK issue 1 yesterday (my SO is the Trekker, I am a longtime Ricardo Montalbán fan). Nice to have for collection purposes, but I read through it and have to admit I was fairly disappointed, mostly in the artwork. It’s not easy to draw real-life people and have them come out as they really look, but there are those who can do it, and I’m afraid this artist isn’t one of them. Overall there seems to be a “fuzzy” look to the whole thing.

I agree with #43, it would have been great to see the novel rendered into visual form. And if they’re going to concentrate strictly on the events from the film, as opposed to giving attention to the events in the novelization, then I agree with #21 as well: can’t it all be released in just one issue?

I’m glad they paid homage to TWOK, but I think it could have been done better. Dare I say it: the picture above, in which Khan makes the “Kirk, my old friend” speech, unfortunately makes Khan look like an ape!

By: ML31

ML31 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:06:51 +0000

Still the best Trek sequence ever. It was the first time we ever saw the Enterprise get seriously battered! I remember watching that scene in the theater with my jaw dropped!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:38:21 +0000

I’ve seen the film so often that it jars when they edit out some of the dialogue. They should have done an adaptation of the book instead of the movie so at least we would get to see some of Saavik and Peter Preston’s relationship and we’d care a bit more about the crew of Regula One. I cried when er.. the mathmatician ok I forget his name – Vance I think – welcomes death to end the torture (helped along by some Deltan sexual ju ju). Ok it might have to be toned down for a comic but with the debate about torture being very relevant today, it would have been nice to see this part of the story explored.

By: Grow Up and Take a Shat

Grow Up and Take a Shat — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:22:10 +0000

This looks horrible and whats the point of a complete carbon copy of the original.