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Comic wishlist

Given that we really haven't seen any TOS movie-era comics stories since perhaps the '90s apart from Klingons: Blood Will Tell, a couple of the Captain's Log one-shots, and the isolated vignette-bits in Spock: Reflections (the TV series time-period seemingly being the most popular with creators lately), there's likely a substantial untapped hunger for them right now, and I'd like to think that if a creator pitched one to IDW, it'd do extremely well for them.

Doesn't really work that way, I'm afraid -- otherwise I'd have gotten to do a bunch of sequels to Ex Machina to fill the "untapped hunger" for post-TMP novels. The reason there's traditionally been far more fiction set in the TOS era and the post-TWOK era than in the post-TMP era is because that's the way the audience's preferences break down. It's not like there's uniform audience interest in all three eras and the publishers are just arbitrarily ignoring one of them. The abundance of books in each era reflects the popularity of each era -- TOS sells best by far, and the later movie era is preferred to the TMP era.
 
Right, yeah, I was thinking more along the lines of post-Wrath of Khan stories too; I was using the TMP-period to illustrate that the movie era was bigger than just the DC tales, there. I agree, if there's any audience-appetite, it would likely swing toward the maroon-uniform days, as opposed to the years of grey tunics and belt-buckle life-monitors.
 
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I'd like to see an ongoing series featuring a new ship and crew that has never appeared anywhere else before (including the novels), preferably set after the destruction of Romulus.
 
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