Art in Star Trek Comics

[Enterprise1701]

Funny thing I stumbled across again:

In Star Trek: Discovery - Succession #2, Angel Hernandez traced Doug Drexler's Constellation class model to represent the Imperial Starfleet's current agenda. Sure, Drexler does magnificent work, hence this model being the back cover of the Ships of the Line hardcover book, but it's definitely the wrong vibe for 2257, even if technically there is no proof of when the Constellation class launched in the Terran timeline.

 

[Therin of Andor]

SFA had the first in universe comic (IIRC) in the new episode

As catalogued by Mark Martinez of "Star Trek Comics Checklist":

Star Trek prop comic from CBS 2026

 

[Therin of Andor]

There were a couple of times Carl Barks accidentally drew a fourth Duck nephew alongside Huey, Dewey, and Louie. This fourth, accidental nephew became known as Phooey Duck. Art mistakes happen, and sometimes they're fun, like Phooey.

Did he have his own hat and shirt colour?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Not initially; in his first appearance, all four of the nephews are wearing black. Phooey eventually is depicted in yellow, and that's how he appeared in the recent DuckTales series. See here.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Is this just a Trek thing or do, for example, Batman comics have the wrong Batmobile or Batman costume causing similar uproar?

 

[Christopher]

Is this just a Trek thing or do, for example, Batman comics have the wrong Batmobile or Batman costume causing similar uproar?

I think that's different, because the comics are the original version, so whatever changes they make to the car or costume are canonical in-universe updates, not an error of adaptation. Now, if a comic based on Batman: The Animated Series were mistakenly drawn with the Tim Burton Batmobile, or vice versa, that would be an error of the type you're talking about.

Although I suppose if the wrong Batmobile or costume were drawn in just one panel of a story, contradicting the rest of the same story, that would also count as an error.

 

[JD]

Is this just a Trek thing or do, for example, Batman comics have the wrong Batmobile or Batman costume causing similar uproar?

This is mainly an issue with tie-in comics, since we tend to approach them with the expectation that they will match up with the source material

 

[publiusr]

A nice release looks to be coming

After 60 Years, Star Trek Releases Its Biggest Collection Yet

Star Trek fans are in for a treat with a special new collection arriving this summer.

www.cbr.com

Gold Key still my favorite

 

[David cgc]

Is this just a Trek thing or do, for example, Batman comics have the wrong Batmobile or Batman costume causing similar uproar?

I did a quick google for off-model Batman, and most of the results were about merch, but there was an old Reddit thread (with mostly dead image links, unfortunately) about the comics themselves.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Hee hee, white Uhura and black Sulu!

"Star Trek Comics Weekly" Facebook Group recently put up a "coloring guide" from the production of the Power Records' comic/record set, "The Crier in Emptiness".

It clearly shows that Uhura was going to have yellow (ie. coded "Y3") highlights in her black hair, but as we know, she ended up becoming a caucasian blonde.

I was excited to see the confirmation of my decades-old theory that blond human officer, Mr Connors, was originally supposed to be Lieutenant Arex of TAS.


Arex becomes Connors! by Ian McLean, on Flickr

This probably started because Alan Dean Foster wrote this and one other storyline and he had been novelising TAS episodes for Ballantine Books' "Star Trek Logs". Ownership of the Edosian's image was seemingly in flux, having been created for the Filmation animated "Star Trek" TV series. Notice how Connors often has an awkward stance, indicating that an extra arm and leg have been erased at short notice. Extra digits have been added to his hands and even the shoulders have been widened.

Arex's "elisiar" instrument was allowed to stay. (So how does Mr Connors play an Edosian/Edoan elisiar with only four limbs?) Connors' name will almost overlap the speech balloon border at times: a "paste-up" over the shorter word "Arex".


Edosian "Elisiar" instrument by Ian McLean, on Flickr

Then M'Ress had to be redrawn for her Power Records appearance! She still purrs on the record.


A rather Orion-looking M'Ress in "Passage to Moauv" by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

[Christopher]

Connors' name will almost overlap the speech balloon border at times: a "paste-up" over the shorter word "Arex".

I wonder why they didn't just call him something like Ames or Ashe, then.

Oh, wait, maybe it's because they had to dub in a two-syllable name on the record. Although there are plenty of 4-letter 2-syllable names, like Ryan or Egan.

 

[Tosk]

You'd think "Alex" is right there.

 

[Christopher]

You'd think "Alex" is right there.

But that's not a surname, as far as I know.

 

[Tosk]

It's far, far more known as a given name, but it's still certainly a more common surname than Uhura.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Asher, Archer (hey), Alton, Adams, Aaron...take your pick.

 

[Christopher]

Asher, Archer (hey), Alton, Adams, Aaron...take your pick.

We're looking for 4-letter names, though I guess 5 wouldn't be too hard to squeeze into the voice bubble.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Amos, Abel/Able, Avon, Aram, Awad, Alan, etc.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I wonder why they didn't just call him something like Ames or Ashe, then.

Oh, wait, maybe it's because they had to dub in a two-syllable name on the record. Although there are plenty of 4-letter 2-syllable names, like Ryan or Egan.

I know. Weird. And then "M'Ress" wasn't renamed, just redrawn as a different alien.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Not the only time M'Ress had to be redrawn. Thanks to Richard Arnold being so gung-ho...


M'Ress dismissed by Ian McLean, on Flickr

A promotional b/w page from "Amazing Heroes" magazine #170 (Aug 1989, page 99). We had all assumed that Arex and M'Ress, reintroduced to the comics after ST IV, would be back in these post-ST V stories.

By the time DC Comics' "Star Trek" Series II, issue #1 was actually published, M'Ress the Caitian had been redrawn as M'yra the antelope woman, named for Peter David's then-wife, Myra.


M'yra replaces M'Ress (but both still flirted with Sulu) by Ian McLean, on Flickr

For the first new issue which was to have feature Arex, already said to have been moving across to Security for the new comic, he was abruptly replaced by skinny, blue Ensign Fouton.

Arex did finally get to do a version of PAD's intended Security storyline several years later in Peter David's "New Frontier" novels (and then comics).

 

[Tosk]

It gets tiring sometimes having to remember Richard Arnold's meddling.