Captain's Log: Pike

[DarKush]

Picked this up yesterday. I really enjoyed it. I thought the artwork was good and the story was very touching.

I haven't read MWB's "Burning Dreams" so I don't know if it covers the incident that led to Pike's injuries. This comic does and I thought it did a good job with it. It had echoes from another famous captain's sacrifice.

I liked the character work with Colt and her relationship with Pike. It was done with a minimal approach but I thought it conveyed a lot of pent up, forlorn feelings between the two. I enjoyed this Pike adventure a lot more than his turn in the Alien Spotlight story. The first half of the story was just okay, but I think it hit home in the second half. I wouldn't mind seeing a return of the aliens, the Halogians, in another comic.

If you're a Pike fan I recommend it. If anyone else has read it, I would like to read your thoughts on it.

Overall, I've really enjoyed the Captain's Log series and I hate that it only has one more entry. Along with Blood Will Tell and Crew, the Log books rank right at the top of IDW's Trek tales IMO. Though I thought Fool's Gold wasn't bad and the Alien Spotlight's had some good and some not-so-good issues, though mostly good or decent.

 

[Daddy Todd]

I got it today. I thought it was OK. The art isn't really to my taste, but that's just a "YMMV" kind of a thing.

I did notice that Spock repeats himself the (I think) third page -- he says the same exact words in 2 different balloons in the same panel. Oops!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Those words don't happen to be THE WOMEN!, do they?

 

[Christopher]

I haven't read MWB's "Burning Dreams" so I don't know if it covers the incident that led to Pike's injuries.

Pretty sure it does.

 

[DarKush]

I got it today. I thought it was OK. The art isn't really to my taste, but that's just a "YMMV" kind of a thing.

I did notice that Spock repeats himself the (I think) third page -- he says the same exact words in 2 different balloons in the same panel. Oops!

Yeah I noticed that too.

 

[garamet]

I haven't read MWB's "Burning Dreams" so I don't know if it covers the incident that led to Pike's injuries.

Pretty sure it does.

Yep.

 

[cmdr_forst]

I finally got my hands on this. I am a big fan of Pike and "The Cage" so this was a must buy for me. Unfortunately, it was sold out at the two comic stores closest to me when it first came out and I only had a chance to get to another comic store earlier this week. I really liked the art and thought the storyline was decent. I also noticed the duplicate speech balloons. Colt's hair in the second half bugged me, though, because it looked like she was wearing a wig. I am not sure why that stood out but it did.