2025 Comics Thread

[Avro Arrow]

Interesting !

Captain Kirk Is Back from the Dead in New Star Trek Comic ‘The Last Starship’ (Exclusive)

Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, who earned an Eisner nomination for writing a previous Trek comic, are behind the new title from IDW.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

I have to admit, this doesn't really grab me. But I will give it a chance.

Funny thing is, without the Kirk element, I'd probably be more interested in this. That's not due to any dislike of the character or anything, but... let the character rest. We don't need to have the tie ins resurrect him in every period Star Trek covers.

I'm getting a little tired of stories resurrecting dead characters just in general. (And no, I was not a fan of that Picard S3 easter egg, either.)

 

[ryan123450]

I got Star Trek: Omega, the special that concludes the two ongoing series and leads into Nemesis, today.

It is perfectly cromulent. It's a series of character vignettes a page or two in length, fanwanky splooge and cameos on every page, and things that set up Nemesis, 2009, and Picard. There isn't a story here. It's more a series of references, footnotes, and endings. If you haven't been reading the two series, this isn't something you can just jump in and read because there's a lot that just will not make sense.

With the announcement of the "Kirk and the Burn" series today, I was expecting a page or two prequel to that at the end of Omega when I cracked it open, but alas, no.

Sounds exactly like what I expected and was hoping for!

A burn comic sure doesn’t grab me, as someone who quit watching Discovery at the time jump. But maybe Kirk and the writers will get me interested. I guess I’ll give it a shot and see.

 

[Danlav05]

So they're doing the Burn but the main character is actual Captain bleedin Kirk!

Still processing it :P (if they did it Picard era would Scotty, McCoy and

Spoiler

Uhura

still be around?)

 

[Scifi_Shipyards]

In my ultimate fantasy, I'd love to see the premise of the abandoned Star Trek Final Frontier series, realized as a comic series. In the spirit of that wish, I've done some work to completely redesign the Enterprise. The original was intended to be an ugly design with an agressive hammerhead profile. The producers hoped that it would eventually be beloved by the audience for what it represented, rather than the traditional sleek and attractive appearance. This was a tough one for me to redesign. I still wanted to the hammerhead primary hull and those long impulse engines, but in the end, the rest of the design was completely changed. She is still an 'ugly duckling' design but that is intentional and hopefully a slightly more acceptable design than her predecessor. I also gave a slight update to the look of the characters, intending them to have a 90's animation appearance akin to that of Batman The Animated Series. I gleaned a lot of information directly from the startrekff.com website which is no longer running, but is still available to view on the webarchive.com website. Click here for the direct link.

 

[JD]

I'm honestly a little disappointed they've never done anything with that, it sounded like it had some interesting ideas in it.

 

[tgiokdi]

I love the idea of a series set after The Burn, but I'm not quite sure what to make of them bringing Kirk into that era.

imho, it's "a" Kirk, not necessarily "the" Kirk, but that's an opinion I've had on about 20 different Kirks, lol.

 

[StarTrek1701]

I love the idea of a series set after The Burn, but I'm not quite sure what to make of them bringing Kirk into that era.

They've run out of fresh ideas completely.
By the looks of it even the comics aren't selling, NuTrek or not.
So they gotta go back to the tried and tested vault of James T.Kirk, again.
Nauseating.

 

[Turtletrekker]

It kind of reminds me of the old Fantastic Four 2099 comic. Unlike the other 2099 books, which were reimaginings of the titular heroes, the FF book was actually Reed, Sue, Ben and Johnny dropped into the 2099 setting.

 

[tgiokdi]

They've run out of fresh ideas completely.
By the looks of it even the comics aren't selling, NuTrek or not.
So they gotta go back to the tried and tested vault of James T.Kirk, again.
Nauseating.

I've been hearing that very specific stance since they announced TNG and its obvious rip off of Spock in the android named "Data"!

 

[Turtletrekker]

I've been hearing that very specific stance since they announced TNG and its obvious rip off of Spock in the android named "Data"!

Exactly. If I may cross franchise streams for a moment, "all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again".

 

[tgiokdi]

Out today!

Star Trek: Omega #1

Cover A by: Malachi Ward
MSRP: $5.99 USD
UPC: $82771403429500111
Diamond Code: APR251022

Cover B by: Ramon Rosanas
MSRP: $5.99 USD
UPC: $82771403429500121
Diamond Code: APR251023

Cover C by: Angel Unzueta
MSRP: $No MSRP
UPC: $82771403429500131
Diamond Code: APR251024

Written by Christopher Cantwell and Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.

Two and a half years of comics spanning 60 years of Star Trek history, a fair few awards, and more than a few universe detonations, and it’s all been coming to this! Star Trek: Omega is the denouement of the critically acclaimed Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant storylines, and the first glimpse at what comes after. The crews of the Theseus, Defiant, and Enterprise set to work restoring the universe to what it should be after the evil android Lore’s intervention. Each hero finds their peace in preordained or unexpected ways, with individual scenes depicted by one of Star Trek’s or Defiant’s mainline artists! This finale pays tribute to all those involved in the series Screen Rant calls “the gold standard for ambitious comic book storytelling.”

Images are hosted on www.startrekbookclub.com a site I operate myself and hotlinking is permitted.

 

[Avro Arrow]

@Scifi_Shipyards , I love your artwork! I too was kind of disappointed that nothing ever ended up happening with Final Frontier, it sounds like it could have been interesting. I think I've commented somewhere on the board before that it was interesting that we eventually did get a character named Zero in a containment suit, but I don't know if that was inspired by FF, or was just coincidental.

I don't know if it was intentional, but the secondary hull of your Enterprise reminds me of the secondary hull of the Theseus, so it's cool to see that connection (intended or not).

Speaking of not knowing if it was intentional, in this image:

your Chase is giving me really strong Kirk vibes!

Nicely done, and thank you for sharing your work!

 

[Yistaan]

While they did have everything go back to more or less lining up with canon and non-canon (Sisko goes back to the wormhole to match up with his status mentioned in Lower Decks, even Kahless goes back to being Emperor despite his atrocities to clumsily match up with Star Trek Online which may or may not fit canon anymore after Picard S3 etc) I don't believe the issue of the Crystalline Entities being wiped out in the comic yet showing up in Lower Decks, taking place after this comic, was resolved....?

 

[Christopher]

I've been hearing that very specific stance since they announced TNG and its obvious rip off of Spock in the android named "Data"!

That would have almost been a fair criticism, since the core TNG cast were basically renamings of Star Trek Phase II characters. Will Riker and Troi were a virtually unaltered rehash of Will Decker and Ilia (complete with a Troy/Ilium pun), Picard was Phase II's older, more seasoned Kirk who was a mentor figure to Decker, and Data was an amalgam of PII's Xon and The Questor Tapes's title android, with Xon being PII's substitute for Spock. (Albeit a contrast to Spock, in that he was a full Vulcan who was interested in exploring his emotional side and learning to act more humanlike, same as Data.)

 

[tgiokdi]

That would have almost been a fair criticism, since the core TNG cast were basically renamings of Star Trek Phase II characters. Will Riker and Troi were a virtually unaltered rehash of Will Decker and Ilia (complete with a Troy/Ilium pun), Picard was Phase II's older, more seasoned Kirk who was a mentor figure to Decker, and Data was an amalgam of PII's Xon and The Questor Tapes's title android, with Xon being PII's substitute for Spock. (Albeit a contrast to Spock, in that he was a full Vulcan who was interested in exploring his emotional side and learning to act more humanlike, same as Data.)

I would agree that it would be a fair criticism if it were being made in good faith, but the contexts that I've seen it in were people that were so outraged they had to "gafiate" which is where I first learned the word.

 

[tenmei]

So Last Starship and Redshirts are on my pull list.

I half expect the ship in Last Starship to be the Theseus, the shop on the covers certainly gives Theseus silhouette vibes

 

[Yistaan]

Spoiler

Uhura looks well enough for someone who's around 140 years old

 

[Therin of Andor]

I'm honestly a little disappointed they've never done anything with that, it sounded like it had some interesting ideas in it.

Looks like Zero inspired “Star Trek: Prodigy”’s Medusan?

I had forgotten all that Alexander Chase stuff!

 

[Danlav05]

Spoiler

Uhura looks well enough for someone who's around 140 years old

Spoiler

Does this means they see Star Trek: Renegades as canon?! (Even though by Admiral Uhura's scenes they removed all the Trek IP)

 

[BillJ]

Spoiler

Does this means they see Star Trek: Renegades as canon?! (Even though by Admiral Uhura's scenes they removed all the Trek IP)

Spoiler: Uhura

Novels also had her making Admiral. IIRC.