Canon AKA "not fanfiction"?
Ah, we're back to rocket blasts coming out of the back of nacelles again.Here's another article with some character images.
Exclusive First Look: 'Stargazers' Boldly Launches A New Era Of Star Trek Webcomics
YA webcomics are the next leap for the Star Trek canon. Here's an exclusive first look at 'Stargazers' and "Recollection."www.inverse.com
Also, maybe it's because I don't read manga, but I find it really weird to have big STEP STEP sound effects just for a character walking.
Canon aka there are people out there who would ignore it unless they said "canon" in the press release and immediately go out and buy it, and they know this.
Paid Paramount plant!
Webtoon as a company is a huge red flag for me. Their platform is “coin” based, so folks have to pay for every chapter instead of using a subscription. They treat creators in Korea terribly to the point at least one has died from overwork. The fact this press release doesn’t list specific artists working on either series leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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Star Trek has two brand-new canon adventures building on classic worlds across The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager.screenrant.com
the coin thing is one of the options that publishers have, there's also free releases and advanced release payments where you get the "current" chapter for free, but can pay to read ahead.
Korean and Japanese publishers that use the coin system domestically seem to rarely change that for their English-language partners. Shueisha is one of the few I'm aware of that does that with MangaPlus and Viz.
I'm (generally) looking forward to trying both of these out! It will be great to see another new story in the DS9 setting. And, to be honest, I have a bit of a thing for the "character has amnesia and has to piece their life back together" trope, so I'm quite looking forward to Recollections. (Although I really hope that "reveal" is something that comes out in the very first chapter, and they didn't just spoil a mid-series reveal in the press release, for some reason! 
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The one thing that I'm not entirely thrilled about is that they're locked into a specific app. I know it's kind of the way of the world now, but it's still not great. And to be honest, what Firebird has mentioned about this specific app is very concerning.
I'm kind of the opposite. I love getting stories that aren't related to characters from a specific TV show. Star Trek is a setting, and I really enjoy getting looks into other parts of the universe.
I really wish they would stop doing that. Your comic isn't canon, it's never going to be canon. Stop trying to make fetch happen.
More recently, the creators said the same thing about the "Sisko commanding the Theseus" ongoing comic. Not that any of us believed it anyway, but I guess we saw how long that claim lasted.
)The one thing that I'm not entirely thrilled about is that they're locked into a specific app. I know it's kind of the way of the world now, but it's still not great. And to be honest, what Firebird has mentioned about this specific app is very concerning.
I'm kind of the opposite. I love getting stories that aren't related to characters from a specific TV show. Star Trek is a setting, and I really enjoy getting looks into other parts of the universe.
I really wish they would stop doing that. Your comic isn't canon, it's never going to be canon. Stop trying to make fetch happen.
More recently, the creators said the same thing about the "Sisko commanding the Theseus" ongoing comic. Not that any of us believed it anyway, but I guess we saw how long that claim lasted.
It seems like they use "canon" to mean "consistent with canon," overlooking that that's required of every tie-in. (Inconsistencies only happen when later canon ignores and contradicts the tie-ins.)
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‘Star Trek’ 60th Anniversary Comic to Feature Stories From Brian Michael Bendis, ‘Lower Decks’ Creator Mike McMahan (Exclusive)
And original series writer and Tribbles creator David Gerrold also contributes a tale to the IDW special.
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‘Star Trek’ 60th Anniversary Comic to Feature Stories From Brian Michael Bendis, ‘Lower Decks’ Creator Mike McMahan (Exclusive)
And original series writer and Tribbles creator David Gerrold also contributes a tale to the IDW special.
OK, don't get mad at me, comic fans, but I had to look up who Brian Michael Bendis is, to see why the article seemed so excited about his involvement. Apparently he is really big in the world of superhero comics.
The collection sounds great, and I'm looking forward to it! It'll be nice to have Ryan North back, although I'm kind of disappointed he won't be penning a LD tale. (Obviously, the fact that Mike McMahan himself is providing an LD story is wonderful; I'm just saying, there could have been two LD stories!
)Now I have to start thinking about which cover I'm going to get...
