This week IDW releases the penultimate issue of the “When The Walls Fell” arc for their ongoing Star Trek series, which is part of the setup for the big “Star Trek: Lore War” crossover event coming next month. Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing co-write the series with art by Tess Fowler. We have covers and a preview of issue 29.
Star Trek #29
Synopsis:
Sisko is stuck outside space-time on Bajor. He does not know if his crew and his family are alive or if his universe even exists beyond this plane. All Sisko knows is that he must stop Lore before everyone and everything he loves is destroyed forever. To do that, he must build the Orbs of Destiny. It all comes down to this. If there’s any hope for a future, the Prophets will reveal it now.
Covers:
Cover A by Ramon Rosanas
Cover B by Tess Fowler
Setup/credits:
Five-page preview:
Star Trek #29 available Wednesday
Star Trek #29 arrives on February 19. You can order issue 29 or upcoming issues at TFAW. Or pick up individual digital editions at Amazon/comiXology.
The six-part “When The Walls Fell” wraps up in March with Star Trek #30. After that the “Lore War” crossover event begins with part 3 coming with Star Trek #31. Check out covers for the next two issues below…
New Star Trek collections
In October IDW releases the volume 3 collection for Star Trek in paperback, bringing together the “Glass and Bone” arc. You can order a paperback at Amazon for $19.99. The Volume #4 collection for “Pleroma” arrives on paperback in April, 2025. You can pre-order at Amazon for $21.99.
Keep up with all the Star Trek comics news, previews and reviews in TrekMovie’s comics category.
The art work looks awful.
No it doesn’t, it looks stylized. Seriously, every time a comic article is posted, people jump in and opine negatively about the art. Every time. It’s not supposed to be photorealistic, it’s an artistic impression. It’s fine. If you don’t like the art style, nobody needs to know. Every. Single. Post. Someone posts the exact same thing. We get it. Please. There must be something more interesting to say.
“If you don’t like the art style, nobody needs to know.”
That’s entirely wrong. This is a discussion thread, intended for people to post their opinions. If you don’t like that fact, don’t read the comments. That’s fine. But it’s absurd to complain that people are posting their opinions.
“There must be something more interesting to say.”
How incredibly non-self-aware.
Speak for yourself, Lorna. If you don’t see the irony of your reply here, then you’re helpless.
I’m done pretending that we owe obnoxious comments any patience, and I know I’m not the only one. The artist deserved more respect than an uninformed and off-base opinion, and James was playing into a harmful/annoying trend on comic-related Trek posts. You aren’t helping anyone by defending that.
Just imagine being the artist and reading that comment. Not “it’s not for me” or “not my favorite style”, but straight up “it’s bad”. That’s just entitled and uncalled for and we’re supposed to be better than that.
I’m normally one to fuss about the art of the comics, but I appreciate this is at least trying something stylistically different
Hmmm. I like it.
I’m so glad that IDW is hiring artists with different and unique styles instead of just blandly tracing old photos of Chris Pine. I’d invite you to consider that maybe there can be interesting aesthetic qualities to a drawing that might be more important than how perfectly it copies a photograph.
I thought it looked a lot better than usual. Digging the watercolour look.
I’m not a fan of it either. The artwork on prior storylines has been a lot better. This doesn’t work.
I really like Tess Fowler’s work, but her style is definitely not in the more traditional comics style. She was great as the artist on Rat Queens!