You are too kind, good sir. *bows*
Vanguard isn't a book, it's a series, and you really need to read them to get a proper answer to the question.
Alien Spotlight II
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LOL. Boy, some people on here. So any chance that the Enterprise-D will be making an appearence again?
Yeah, some people just don't know all that there is to know about Trek novels. Amazing, eh?
(I had no idea that Vanguard was a series.)
Hey, so the TPB (ominibus) edition of the first Alien Spotlight series hit the shelves yesterday! It's got work by yours truly, John Byrne, the Tipton brothers, plus special sketch & design backup features and a very quick one-page preview of the upcoming second series.
Check it out, let me know what you think...!
Check it out, let me know what you think...!
It's one very handsome volume! (Don't have to read it, though, 'cos I already know the comics...) All of the IDW omnibuses have been well presented. (I wish they had celebrity introductions, though, which were always a fun bonus inclusion in DC comics' omnibuses.)
The celebrity "introductions" were just age-old interviews from back issues of the Titan mag. They were entirely irrelevant and usually tedious-- after the first couple volumes, I hardly ever read them.
No, Ian was referring to the original DC omnibuses, not the much more recent Titan reprints. DC's collections did have original forewords written by various Trek luminaries. For instance, The Mirror Universe Saga had an introduction by A. C. Crispin which talks specifically about the storyline it collects. Tests of Courage (collecting the first Captain Sulu storyline from the comics, by Howard Weinstein) has an intro by Takei talking about the story and his encounters with Weinstein, Peter David, et al. And the TOS/TNG crossover The Modala Imperative had a Walter Koenig intro talking about how he overcame his resistance to TNG, about crossovers in general, and about this particular crossover and its authors.
I just looked on Amazon and couldn't find it. Could you put a link up for it?
I just put Alien Spotlight into the search field and it was the first item that came up: Here. They still have it listed as not yet available, though.
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Oh, fair enough. I read The Mirror Universe Saga so long ago I wouldn't remember something like that, while my copy of The Modala Imperative is in individual issues.
Incidentally, my copy of Alien Spotlight shipped today, along with Terok Nor: Night of the Wolves and Last of the Jedi: Reckoning.
Hunh, very strange... I know that it's already out, since I saw it first-hand on the shelves at my local comics store. It may be that there's a slight delay (1-2 weeks) for places like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. as part of the way that their distribution system works.
It looks really good, by the way... I really like the idea of flipping through a book and seeing all the different art styles, and yet they all still have that "Trek" feel.
And "The Best of Star Trek" with Nicholas Meyer, "Who Killed Captain Kirk?" with George Takei, "Revisitations" with David Gerrold, "TNG: Beginnings" wwith Mike Okuda, "The Best of TNG" with Jeri Taylor and "TNG: The Star Lost" with Ronald D Moore.
Not so strange. Diamond's airfreight stock would reach individual comic stores the world over at the same time as bigger chain's distribution warehouses. The big chains would then divide up their stash and put deliveries onto trucks.
Oh really?
What form does this preview take?
It's a vertical three-quarters-page, colour illustration, by David Messina, of a full-length TMP Klingon male, with a closeup of his face in the background.
Thanks for the link Therin
Wasn't me.
If you're asking for an online link to the one-page ad for "Alien Spotlight II: Klingons", I'm afraid it's just a print ad in the back of the trade omnibus. I'd rather not ruin the binding by trying to force the book into my scanner.
You know you're right. I have no idea why I thought it was. Serious gaff on my part.
Defcon thank you for the link.
Defcon thank you for the link.
