Farscape is wonderful. Strongly recommended. And I'm not just saying that because I used to edit the FS novels and write for the magazine.
I just recently watched Farscape for the first time over the past month or so, and I'm working through the continuation comics now. I'm also planning to read KRAD's novel, though it looks like I'm SOL for the short stories from the magazine that you alluded to. That's the trouble with coming to a fandom late, all the stuff is gone, official merch and even fan works. For instance, it looked like the answers to a lot of questioned I googled were on the website Farscape World, which shut down all of a week before I finished the show (so forum posts are still on Google, I just can't read them). And I'm absolutely amazed that the 20th anniversary digital-only soundtrack album has already been pulled from sale less than three years later. It's digital! You'd think the total lack of marginal cost would let them just keep it on iTunes and Amazon and whatever indefinitely and just let it slowly trickle in money from latecomers like me, but I clearly don't understand business.
While most of the short stories are lost to the ages unless you can track down the original magazines and one role-playing game that had them, there are two sources for at least some of the stories: 1) The trade paperback D'Argo's Lament reprinted my story "Many a Mile to Freedom," to which D'Argo's Lament served as a sequel. 2) I did readings of all three of my Farscape stories as part of my YouTube channel KRAD COVID readings in 2020: "Many a Mile to Freedom" (from Farscape: The Official Magazine #1), "Brotherly Love" (from F:TOM #2), and "Ten Little Aliens" (from the Farscape RPG).
What are your opinions regarding song parodies, specifically Star Trek ones? What kind(s) do you enjoy reading or listening to, if any? Have you written any song parodies? Thank you for continuing to answer questions!
I don't know if there are any comics writers here, but if there are do you have any advice for aspiring comics writers? To echo ColdFusion180, thank you for continuing to answer our questions.
TREK’S BEEN GOOD (apologies to Joe Walsh) I get advances, forget the price Ain’t never earned out, they tell me it’s nice I hit my deadlines, then I pub crawl I let my agent pay for it all They say I’m crazy but I have a good time I’m just making up clues for the scene of a crime Trek’s been good to me so far My book’s been stuck on page eighty-nine I lost my mojo, but no, I don’t whine I have a shuttle, ride in the back I lock the hatch in case I’m attacked I write Trek novels, my fans they can’t wait They write me e-mails, tell me I’m great So I got me an office, book covers on the wall Just leave a message, maybe I'll call Lucky I’m sane after all I’ve been through (Everybody say “I’m cool” — “He's cool”) I can’t complain but sometimes I still do Trek’s been good to me so far I go to panels, sometimes until four It’s hard to leave when you can’t find the door It’s tough to handle this fandom and fame Everybody’s so different, I haven’t changed They say I’m lazy but it takes all my time (Everybody say “Oh, yeah” — “Oh, yeah”) I keep on goin’, guess I’ll never know why Trek’s been good to me so far Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I've got the comics and magazines, but I completely missed that Farscape ever had any novels. To eBay!
I can recommend checking out my colleague Jim Zub's #ComicsSchool tutorials on his site: http://www.jimzub.com/
And the guy who wrote most of the comics (to wit, me) wrote one of the novels: House of Cards. The other two were by Andrew Dymond and the late David Bischoff.
Basically from my first comics work — Crimson Dynamo and Iron Man — to present, I have written production note essays for every issue, getting into the process behind each one. It's by no means a proper how-to manual, but you can follow along some of the steps we went through behind the scenes.
Una McCormack did a Q&A on Reddit today https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/zcij2y/hi_im_una_and_im_spocks_ghostwriter/
Out of morbid curiosity (and if it's been asked before, please forgive me and tell me where to look), has anybody here ever introduced a character in order to solve a storytelling problem, possibly intended as nothing more than on offhand reference to somebody the readers don't ever actually meet ("human throwaway," as it were), only to have that character turn out to be worthy of an actual appearance and some real development, and take on a life of his or her own?