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Does Everyone on this board read the Ongoing comics?

serenitytrek1

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Star Trek Ongoing Comics And Graphic Novels.

I must say,I am amazed about how well the ongoing comics are brought up on this movie site. Most times people just wait for the film and don't bother to read the comics or any other source material.

If this where not the case Gary Mitchell's death in the comics wouldn't be so popular on this board. or be classified as canon.

So, I am guessing about 85% of the user here who are mostly interested in trek 2013 read the Ongoing comics?
 
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I don't read the comics myself, but, I'm very interested in the movie.

I have n problem with Comic spoilers, since here is no way to tell if a "spoiler" from the comics will line up with the movie, and I honestly don't believe anything "Big" that's in the comics will be canon to the movie. Sure little stuff, like "Cupcake's" name may come to pass in the movie, but, who honestly would consider that spoiling anything?
 
I don't read them. I picked up the TPB of the "Where No Man..." and "Galileo Seven" adaptations and wasn't perticularly impressed. And, I've never really forgiven IDW for the utterly and unbelievably stupid twist in Star Trek: Nero when Nero met V'Ger.

I'm still bitter over the cancellation of the four nuTrek novels slated for release by Pocket books in 2010. Those I would have bought and read religeously, as I'm a huge fan of Pocket's prime-universe Trek novels.

I tried the first two "young adult" Starfleet Academy novels and wasn't impressed by them, either. Although I really liked the new twist the author of The Delta Anomaly gave the Borg, some major ignorance of Trek lore tainted the book (a gang roaming 23rd century San Fransisco wanting to rape Gaila?). The Edge was just bland and aimed too young to hold my attention.
 
I had the same feeling also, however I did doubt it a bit when Orci said the comics where canon and will give clues about the new film. Am guessing he said so, so that we can buy the series regularly.

However it just seem farfetched that the writers of the film will follow the comics, There is a 95% chance that Cumberbatch’s characters is Gary Mitchell. It makes no difference that Gary died in the comics.
 
I don't read them. I picked up the TPB of the "Where No Man..." and "Galileo Seven" adaptations and wasn't perticularly impressed. And, I've never really forgiven IDW for the utterly and unbelievably stupid twist in Star Trek: Nero when Nero met V'Ger.

I'm still bitter over the cancellation of the four nuTrek novels slated for release by Pocket books in 2010. Those I would have bought and read religeously, as I'm a huge fan of Pocket's prime-universe Trek novels.

I tried the first two "young adult" Starfleet Academy novels and wasn't impressed by them, either. Although I really liked the new twist the author of The Delta Anomaly gave the Borg, some major ignorance of Trek lore tainted the book (a gang roaming 23rd century San Fransisco wanting to rape Gaila?). The Edge was just bland and aimed too young to hold my attention.


Star Fleet Academy book 2 and book 4 was great, I enjoyed The Edge (book 2) and The assignation game (book 4) .I would argue that The Assassination Game is the best out of the 4 books.

I didn’t like the Delta Anomaly and The Gemini agent (which is book 1 and book 3) much. The Author was quite terrible. He or She used the word ‘said’ like 7 times on every page of both books.

I manage to get through both books once, However I have read The Edge twice and I am about to read The Assassination Game for the second time.

May I also add that two different authors wrote the 4 books. The Edge and The Assassination Game are written by the same author. While The Delta Anomaly and the Gemini Agent are written by the same author.
 
I read the comics and had high hopes for them, but sadly they were all sub-par and uninspiring. For those who haven't read them I will give you the short summary of them.

Volume 1:
Issue 1 is an abridged adaptation with variations of TOS episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before". Issue ends the same with Kirk killing Mitchell. My adivce, just watch the episode it's vastly better.

Issue 2 is an abridged adaptation with variations of TOS episode " Galieo Seven". It adds nothing to the story except fewer crewman die on the planet and more Spock/Uhura. Watch the episode instead.

Volume 2

Issue 3 is an abridged adaptation with variations of TOS episode"Operation Annihilate". Spock gets blinded again and Kirk's brother doesn't die is all that happens. Watch the episode is my advice again.

Issue 4 and certainly the most controversial I think. A group of Vulcans purchase a copy of the Narada schematics from an alien in a bar in the Delta Quadrant. Wait, Delta Quadrant? This is still TOS right? Anyway Sarek and the Vulcan plan on leading a suicide mission to the heart of Romulus by sucking it into a black hole with tiny microscopic bit of red matter recovered from the Planet Vulcan's destruction. The Vulcans 4 in total shave their heads and tatt up their faces like Darth Maul err. I mean Nero and set off to blow up Romulus disguised as Romulans bearing "gifts" that can secure the Romulan domination of the galaxy. Kirk and crew stop them of course but in exchange for their freedom since the Enterprise did cross the neutral zone. The Romulan Praetor takes both the drop of red matter and the Narada schematics for the ENT crew and Sarek's freedom.

Bollocks all of it!

I haven't read Volume 3 but I'm sure it's no better. Hopefully the movie ignores all this shite, and Orci reneges on his statement of the comics being canon if he hasn't already. Speaking of does anyone know if Countdown and Nero have been stripped of canoncity yet? I mean they are fanficky and don't really hold up to what we saw in the first movie.
 
Someone can say that the comics are canon all they want, but if events in the movie contradict what happens in the comic, then that word becomes meaningless. Case in point: the Countdown comics. Quite a bit of what happened in those books were contradicted in the first film.
 
I don't read them. I picked up the TPB of the "Where No Man..." and "Galileo Seven" adaptations and wasn't perticularly impressed.



Same here. I was mildly curious to see how Mitchell's story would be handled in the comics, but I don't think that it will connect in any way to the movie. I'm certainly hoping that Cumberbatch is Mitchell; if he is, then that would certainly contradict Orci's comment about the comics being canon.
 
I read the comics and had high hopes for them, but sadly they were all sub-par and uninspiring.
There's your opinion of the stories, what did you think of the quality of the artwork? I very briefly saw a couple of pages of the WNMHGB, and thought the drawing style and quality was slightly below average for most modern comics.

Did it improve in later issues?

:)
 
I read the comics and had high hopes for them, but sadly they were all sub-par and uninspiring.
There's your opinion of the stories, what did you think of the quality of the artwork? I very briefly saw a couple of pages of the WNMHGB, and thought the drawing style and quality was slightly below average for most modern comics.

Did it improve in later issues?

:)

No, sorry T'Girl. The art work stays the same through all the issues i've read. I haven't read the latest volume so I can't comment on that. Artwork is kind of static and bland. I'm not one to harp on artwork for comics. My main enjoyment is from the stories, and with 3 out of 4 of the issues from the first two volumes being very poor adaptations of classic TOS episodes. It only further lets me down. While I don't think they'll ever follow through on the Romulans constructing new Narada class ships and further weaponization of red matter for the Romulan empire. The final story of volume 2 was the most interesting of the issues i've read so far.
 
Okay, let's clear up a misconception. Roberto Orci has repeatedly and consistently said that the comics, even the ones he's personally co-written, are not canonical, because that's not how Star Trek handles its tie-ins. The one time he said anything different was when TrekMovie.com's interviewer kept browbeating him to declare that the comics were canon because that was what the interviewer apparently wanted to be true, and Orci said "yes" facetiously just to get the interviewer off his back about that subject. He recanted it in the thread comments later that same day, reiterating his true stance that the comics are not canonical.

It is apparently true that Orci and Bad Robot are trying to keep the tie-ins consistent and compatible with the films, and are reportedly including bits in the comics that serve as clues for the movie. But Orci's consistent policy that they aren't canonical indicates that the filmmakers won't hesitate to contradict them if that serves the stories they want to tell onscreen.
 
I got to issue ten before I grew tired of the comics. As a whole, the stories were pretty poor, the artwork below average and took about four minutes to read an issue. All that for only $3.99...
 
I got to issue ten before I grew tired of the comics. As a whole, the stories were pretty poor, the artwork below average and took about four minutes to read an issue. All that for only $3.99...

That pretty much sums it up. I've read them all up to the current issue and feel the same way. I had high hopes for this series but have been disappointed with it so far.
 
I guess I'm gonna be the dissenting opinion here and say that I thought that they were fresh retelling of old stories as well as excellent original stories.
 
I read them and I like them but I'm not too impressed by them because for the most part they re-tell the old stories/episodes and it's boring. The first issues especially, if it wasn't for the S/U bits you almost wouldn't understand that they were set in the new reality. Though, they have some original/new stories as well.
The arts aren't always the best either though it has improved in the last comic (mirror verse one)
 
Re: Star Trek Ongoing Comics And Graphic Novels.

I must say,I am amazed about how well the ongoing comics are brought up on this movie site. Most times people just wait for the film and don't bother to read the comics or any other source material.

I don't think it's any different. Paramount has estimated that the percentage of a "Star Trek" movie audience buying licensed tie-ins is about 1-2%. I have no idea what percentage of a "Star Trek" movie audience lurks or posts on a bbs.

If this where not the case Gary Mitchell's death in the comics wouldn't be so popular on this board.

Huh?

or be classified as canon.

No IDW comics are "canon".

So, I am guessing about 85% of the user here who are mostly interested in trek 2013 read the Ongoing comics?

Based upon?
 
I think that Return Of The Archons had a great twist and will probably tie into the movie more than any other of the comics.
 
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