Holy ....! Doctor Who/Star Trek Crossover coming From IDW! - Page 22

Allyn Gibson · December 22 2012, 03:27 PM

It's done. That's the best thing I can say.

This was the comic book equivalent of the long passages through V'Ger in Star Trek: The Motion Picture or the diving bubble sequence in "The Sea Devils." Yes, it's cool to see Patrick Stewart and Matt Smith sharing the same page. But they needed to do something with that. Put the characters in jeopardy. Make them work to get out of bad and increasingly worse situations. Have them do something. That's not what we got. What we got was nostalgia masquerading for narrative.

Conceptually, Assimilation2 could have worked. Instead, we got something that Steve Parkhouse and John Ridgway would have needed at most four eight-pagers in Doctor Who Magazine to cover spread out to 180 pages.

I talk about it more at length on my blog. I voted for this in Bleeding Cool's "Most Disappointing Comic of 2012" poll. Avengers Vs. X-Men was terrible, but I didn't expect anything from that. I expected better from this.

Lonemagpie · December 22 2012, 03:56 PM

^ I'm glad I didn't bother with it, then.

Allyn Gibson · March 28 2013, 02:23 PM

J.K. Woodward is selling prints of some of his Star Trek/Doctor Who artwork. In addition to the "Bad Wolf 359" print (the cover to issue #7), he's also selling prints of Amy Pond in the TOS microskirt and an Odd in a redshirt.

For those interested, look here.

Turbo · March 29 2013, 10:58 PM

Yikes. Been trying to track down the first trade, which is now out of print apparently, but it sounds like I needn't bother. The TOS/Legion crossover was fun, but fell apart in the final issue (as much as I like the TOS crew, it turned into a TOS comic with guest starts who did very little). This one was really just stultifying? Yikes.

Allyn Gibson · March 30 2013, 12:42 AM

Turbo wrote:

Yikes. Been trying to track down the first trade, which is now out of print apparently,

Diamond still has it in stock, so your local comic shop would be able to order it without any trouble. The item code is JUL120287.

Turbo wrote:

This one was really just stultifying? Yikes.

It was one of the dull, talky Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes, with the Doctor as the main guest star.

Turbo · March 30 2013, 12:55 AM

Allyn Gibson wrote:

Turbo wrote:

Yikes. Been trying to track down the first trade, which is now out of print apparently,

Diamond still has it in stock, so your local comic shop would be able to order it without any trouble. The item code is JUL120287.

Apparently not. It's on indefinite backorder according to my LCS. Or some other designation they've rarely ever seen from Diamond.

Allyn Gibson wrote:

Turbo wrote:

This one was really just stultifying? Yikes.

It was one of the dull, talky Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes, with the Doctor as the main guest star.

Oy, that's doubly disappointing. I may skip this then. And the first two issues were quite promising, too...

Mr. Adventure · March 30 2013, 01:01 AM

Allyn Gibson wrote:

J.K. Woodward is selling prints of some of his Star Trek/Doctor Who artwork. In addition to the "Bad Wolf 359" print (the cover to issue #7), he's also selling prints of Amy Pond in the TOS microskirt and an Odd in a redshirt.

For those interested, look here.

This whole comic crossover didn't really appeal much to me but that cover with the Ponds is pretty cool.

Allyn Gibson · March 30 2013, 01:18 AM

Turbo wrote:

Allyn Gibson wrote:

Turbo wrote:

Yikes. Been trying to track down the first trade, which is now out of print apparently,

Diamond still has it in stock, so your local comic shop would be able to order it without any trouble. The item code is JUL120287.

Apparently not. It's on indefinite backorder according to my LCS. Or some other designation they've rarely ever seen from Diamond.

Both volumes were out of stock until this week. Tell your retailer to check the "Back in Stock Spotlight" on the Diamond Retailer Services website.

Allyn Gibson wrote:

Turbo wrote:

This one was really just stultifying? Yikes.

It was one of the dull, talky Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes, with the Doctor as the main guest star.

Oy, that's doubly disappointing. I may skip this then. And the first two issues were quite promising, too...[/QUOTE]

There's some chatter that IDW is going to publish the entire story in a single volume for the fall.

I don't know, you may like it. I know people who loved it. I, however, thought it was poorly executed.

Turbo · March 30 2013, 01:22 AM

Allyn Gibson wrote:

Turbo wrote:

Allyn Gibson wrote:

Diamond still has it in stock, so your local comic shop would be able to order it without any trouble. The item code is JUL120287.

Apparently not. It's on indefinite backorder according to my LCS. Or some other designation they've rarely ever seen from Diamond.

Both volumes were out of stock until this week. Tell your retailer to check the "Back in Stock Spotlight" on the Diamond Retailer Services website.

Oh! That would explain that. I checked last Saturday.

December 22 2012, 03:27 PM	#316
Allyn Gibson Rear Admiral Location: South Pennsyltucky	Re: Holy ....! Doctor Who/Star Trek Crossover coming From IDW! It's done. That's the best thing I can say. This was the comic book equivalent of the long passages through V'Ger in Star Trek: The Motion Picture or the diving bubble sequence in "The Sea Devils." Yes, it's cool to see Patrick Stewart and Matt Smith sharing the same page. But they needed to do something with that. Put the characters in jeopardy. Make them work to get out of bad and increasingly worse situations. Have them do something. That's not what we got. What we got was nostalgia masquerading for narrative. Conceptually, Assimilation2 could have worked. Instead, we got something that Steve Parkhouse and John Ridgway would have needed at most four eight-pagers in Doctor Who Magazine to cover spread out to 180 pages. I talk about it more at length on my blog. I voted for this in Bleeding Cool's "Most Disappointing Comic of 2012" poll. Avengers Vs. X-Men was terrible, but I didn't expect anything from that. I expected better from this. __________________ "When David Marcus cited the great thinkers of history -- "Newton, Einstein, Surak" -- Newt Gingrich did not make his list." -- 24 January 2012 allyngibson.net

December 22 2012, 03:56 PM	#317
Lonemagpie Writer Location: Yorkshire	Re: Holy ....! Doctor Who/Star Trek Crossover coming From IDW! ^ I'm glad I didn't bother with it, then. __________________ "I got two modes with people- Bite, and Avoid" Reading: The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien) Blog- http://lonemagpie.livejournal.com

March 28 2013, 02:23 PM	#318
Allyn Gibson Rear Admiral Location: South Pennsyltucky	Re: Holy ....! Doctor Who/Star Trek Crossover coming From IDW! J.K. Woodward is selling prints of some of his Star Trek/Doctor Who artwork. In addition to the "Bad Wolf 359" print (the cover to issue #7), he's also selling prints of Amy Pond in the TOS microskirt and an Odd in a redshirt. For those interested, look here. __________________ "When David Marcus cited the great thinkers of history -- "Newton, Einstein, Surak" -- Newt Gingrich did not make his list." -- 24 January 2012 allyngibson.net

March 29 2013, 10:58 PM	#319
Turbo Vice Admiral Location: Atlanta	Re: Holy ....! Doctor Who/Star Trek Crossover coming From IDW! Yikes. Been trying to track down the first trade, which is now out of print apparently, but it sounds like I needn't bother. The TOS/Legion crossover was fun, but fell apart in the final issue (as much as I like the TOS crew, it turned into a TOS comic with guest starts who did very little). This one was really just stultifying? Yikes. __________________ Odo: Your faith seems to have led you to something of a contradiction. Kira: I don't see it as a contradiction. Odo: I don't understand. Kira: That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it, you can't understand it and if you do, no explanation is necessary.

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