What has been some of your favorite comic books or comic book stories or issues over the years?

[Jayson1]

The novel thread made me want to make a kind of sister thread only this one is for Trek comic books. I think my 5 favorite would be.

1 The Worst of Both Worlds I think it was called. It was where the TNG crew encounter a alternate universe version of themselves were they lost in the fight against the Borg in "Best of Both Worlds."

2 I liked the New Frontier book were Captain Calhoun and crew faced up against Captain Braxton.

3 I loved the "Early Voyages" book about Pike and his crew. Especially the time travel one where he faced off with a KIrk who was a pirate after getting kicked out of Starfleet.

4 All the stuff with Bearclaw and that gang.

5 I forget which book it was but it showed Spock coming to McCoy on his death bed. To this day this is how I see McCoy's death in Trek being how it happened.

Jason

 

[F. King Daniel]

It'll always be DC's mirror universe saga for me. And then their version of post-STIII Trek, where Kirk and Spock got their own ships and adventures.

And then all of Gold Key Trek for it's sheer craziness (they all speak Esperato in the future!) and DC's first TNG miniseries for the same reason.

I also have fond memories of Marvel's Starfleet Academy series. I felt so bad for T'Priell.

 

[Extrocomp]

And then all of Gold Key Trek for it's sheer craziness (they all speak Esperato in the future!) and DC's first TNG miniseries for the same reason.

And not just regular Esperanto, but Space Esperanto!

 

[Mysterion]

A couple of Diane Duane's stories from the Dc comics run stand out for me: the Double Blind two-parter was a lot of fun. And I really liked her story The Last Word which was a really good McCoy-centric story with some interesting art by Gray Morrow.

 

[Reanok]

I liked the Dc and Malibu crossover comics with the TNG and Ds9 crews working together on Bajor when they had a major crisis, The Dc TOS comics with Gary seven were good. And of course Tos comics that took place before and after Star trek 3..The comics Diane Duane wrote I really like alot. And and a TNG era comic by A.C.Crispin that has Spock Sarek and Perrin in it,and you find out why Spock doesn't like his stepmother and that backstory is really good. I like stuff about the Cardassin's in the story it's well done.

 

[KRAD]

5 I forget which book it was but it showed Spock coming to McCoy on his death bed. To this day this is how I see McCoy's death in Trek being how it happened.

That was "The Wake" in WildStorm's Star Trek Special in 2001 by Jeffrey Lang & Steve Lieber.

 

[JD]

I haven't finished it, but I really enjoyed what I've read of the first DC series set around the TOS movies.
Marvel's Starfleet Academy and Early Voyages were both great.
IDW's Alien Spotlight and Captain's Log had some good stories.
They've had a some good miniseries too, like the TOS mini Burden of Knowledge, TNG Ghosts, and DS9: Fool's Gold.

 

[Jayson1]

I recall this Kirk issue were he was I think stranded on a planet in the past and lived their and died. His remains were then found by the Enterprise crew and he had made a sign using tree branches I think it was.

I like the Mark Altman Deep Space Nine story were Terok Nor's chief engineer came back to the station and their was a search for a young Bajoran girl who didn't know the Ocupation had ended.

Also you had a story were KIrk and the crew went back into Klingon History via the Guardian of Forever. I also think David Marcus was alive because of the change but he could only stay on the Guardian of Forever planet to not be effected by timeline changes.

I was also a fan of the Starfleet Academy series.

Jason

 

[Therin of Andor]

A couple of Diane Duane's stories from the Dc comics run stand out for me: the Double Blind two-parter was a lot of fun.

I got some huge belly laughs from that one. Part 2 with a Grond (tiger) alien on the front cover, but sweet pussycats in the internal art.

"What are they going to do, shed on us?"

Also: Naraht the Horta watching the Ajir eating the metal rec deck furniture: "Oooh, that looks gooood...", then the Ajir hiding under the tables when the Grond come aboard.

Also loved DC's "All Those Years Ago..." (with Number One's accident), "Final Mission" (with Will Decker in TMP uniform - and Talosians!) and "Retrospect" (Scott's previously untold love story, told in reverse order): the three Series I annuals.

WildStorm's "New Frontier: Double Time", with Ensign Janos' cameo (I had complained to Peter David that Janos should have featured - and he said to go back and check out a certain page and a certain panel)...


Janos by Ian McLean, on Flickr

... and Robin Lefler's mother hiding her face (from us) with a Starfleet hand mirror.

IDW's "Alien Spotlight" issue, "The Andorians: The Old Ways" and its clever blending of all manner of Andorian factoids.


"The Old Ways" alternate covers by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

[Paris]

I recall really enjoying The Borg issue of IDW's Aliens mini-series. Drawn by Sean Murphy.

 

[ClayinCA]

That was "The Wake" in WildStorm's Star Trek Special in 2001 by Jeffrey Lang & Steve Lieber.

Oh wow, I need to read that. Sounds like powerful stuff.

My favorites are: pretty much all of DC's second Star Trek series, especially the post-Trek V issues written by Peter David and Howard Weinstein; the Marvel Early Voyages and Starfleet Academy series; and the DC/Malibu TNG/DS9 crossover. And I'll echo the statements made above about Diane Duane's two-parter from DC's first series.

 

[Reanok]

I like a ds9 comic I got a few years go.There were people looking for hidden treasure on the station. I think it was called Fortunes Gold . I really like thee artwork.And like the fact Jadzia Dax was in the story.

 

[JD]

I think you are thinking of Fool's Gold, the one and only DS9 miniseries IDW has released.

 

[Ghost]

Loyal Star Trek comic reader since the 90s, my recollections of the DC and Malibu era are fuzzy though I recall preferring the Malibu stuff over the DC Original Series and TNG material in general (I liked the Peter David stuff) so I will just focus on the comics I do remember well and still occasionally read.

Marvel

Star Trek Early Voyages

Star Trek Starfleet Academy

Star Trek Telepathy War crossover (the only decent TNG-DSN crossover IMO)

Star Trek Voyager "Splashdown"

Star Trek Operation Assimilation

Wildstorm

Star Trek "All of me"

Star Trek "Enter the Wolves"

Star Trek New Frontier "Double Time"

Star Trek TNG "Forgiveness"

Star Trek Special (which includes "The Wake")

IDW

All of John Byrne's stuff; Star Trek Spotlight Romulans, Star Trek Assignment Earth, Star Trek The Hollow Crown, Star Trek Schism, Star Trek Crew, Star Trek Leonard McCoy Frontier Doctor, Star Trek Special "Where no man has gone before" (or the sequel to it), Star Trek New Visions.

Star Trek Spotlight (I found the Borg story pretty poor though and I am a Borg fan)

Star Trek Captain's Log

Star Trek New Frontier "Turnabout"

Star Trek TNG 20/20 (The Picard-Stargazer story)

 

[KimMH]

Chanced upon Discovery: Captain Saru in the wild and looking forward to a nice read when I’ve got the time.

 

[Reanok]

Thanks JD Yes Fool's Fool's Gold is the name of it, I really enjoyed reading that Ds9 comic book.

 

[Jayson1]

I recall their being a female character who was a ongoing romance for KIrk in the comics I liked. I forget her name but I think maybe Amanda Carter was it? I know she came back for a episode I liked that was about trying to pull the Defiant out the phased space it was in.

Also I know their was a really good one that dealt with the conflict between Spock and Sarek over the Carddisian peace treaty and sort of followed up that throwaway line from the show.

Also a murder mystery episode about Spock trying to find someone who tried to kill Stonn.

Also a short story told from the perspective of Spot.

I liked 3 Q TNG stories were Q first turned the entire crew into Klingons and another were they all became androids like Data and Data ended up being more human than they were because he was used to being a android. Plus Dixon Hill story.

I also liked this issue were Q and Trelane were kind of playing a game and the switched things were Picard was captain of the TOS Enterprise and KIrk was in charge of the D and they had to combat each other I think it was.

Jason

 

[F. King Daniel]

You're thinking of RJ Blaise. Amanda Carter is a cross between Spock's Mum and the scientist character from Stargate SG1

 

[Desert Kris]

For nostalgia reasons, I have a fondness for the one-shot TOS era story The Argon Affair. I can't comment on it's quality now, because it's been a long time since I read it, and it's still a little ways away in my run-through of the DC TOS Volume 1 series. It was the first ST comic I owned and read over and over again; I'm probably mostly incapable of being unbiased.

The Mirror Universe saga for it's scope and movie-era setting. I started reading it and knew I didn't want to read it completely until I would be able to read it in context, with the stories before and after, to understand the side characters that carry over and to see how the story continues after with the crew on the Excelsior and Spock elsewhere as captain of the Surak.

From the Early Voyages, Our Dearest Blood. The title suggests a level of emotional resonance about how impacting this story is for Pike's crew. And then the familiar images from Pike's nightmare scenario on Talos IV are revealed as having a different perspective. The throwaway reference from the Pilot episode about a yeoman who is killed is made into an emotional gut punch, I was really very sad about the character.

 

[Jayson1]

Was Pike's yeoman who died, modeled after Mark Altman? I still remember John Tesh allowing his likeness for the first DS9 Malibu comic episode. I think he was a Starfleet Captain who had a very common name. Like Captain Johnson or something like that.

Jason