Hm, my comics smell all the same but I must admit, I have a bad cold and my sense of smell leaves a bit to be desired at the moment. 
IDW New Frontier #1
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I got this issue, and I liked it well enough... I dug the artwork okay. Certainly better than a lot of the junk we've seen in Trek comics over the years, but still not anything truly amazing.
I think what kept me from loving it is my lack of familiarity with the characters. I think I read only the first six or seven New Frontier novels, so to find that characters are dead, characters are married, a new ship and all that is rather disorienting. And unlike the novels, which will explicitly introduce a character by something like, "So and So was walking down the street..." the comic does no such thing. Who the crap is the helmsman on this ship, for example? I don't know. Do the characters refer to her by name? I don't remember.
So I recognize that it's a well-written story, there's good dialogue and I like the art, but I felt like I was guessing who everybody was through the whole thing (aside from Calhoun and Shelby).
I'll still pick up the next issue, though.
I think what kept me from loving it is my lack of familiarity with the characters. I think I read only the first six or seven New Frontier novels, so to find that characters are dead, characters are married, a new ship and all that is rather disorienting. And unlike the novels, which will explicitly introduce a character by something like, "So and So was walking down the street..." the comic does no such thing. Who the crap is the helmsman on this ship, for example? I don't know. Do the characters refer to her by name? I don't remember.
So I recognize that it's a well-written story, there's good dialogue and I like the art, but I felt like I was guessing who everybody was through the whole thing (aside from Calhoun and Shelby).
I'll still pick up the next issue, though.
That's what you get for missing staff meetings. 
You mean Tania Tobias?
She was Worf, Soleta, Kebron and McHenry's classmate from the "TNG: Starfleet Academy" Cadet Worf trilogy, written by Peter David. She was introduced into "New Frontier" in the more recent "After the Fall"/"Missing in Action" novels, when PAD jumped the action forward by three years. She's carrying some disability from the Dominion Wars, which will no doubt continue to be explored.
Calhoun calls her Tobias on page 18 of the new comic.
You mean Tania Tobias?
She was Worf, Soleta, Kebron and McHenry's classmate from the "TNG: Starfleet Academy" Cadet Worf trilogy, written by Peter David. She was introduced into "New Frontier" in the more recent "After the Fall"/"Missing in Action" novels, when PAD jumped the action forward by three years. She's carrying some disability from the Dominion Wars, which will no doubt continue to be explored.
Calhoun calls her Tobias on page 18 of the new comic.
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She also appeared in Keith R.A. Decandido's "Revelations" in No Limits.
Well, that neatly answers the question I was going to ask having just got After the Fall from the library! I was wondering who she was.
And with her addition to the crew PAD has now used all of the main characters from the Cadet Worf books, except for Worf of couse.That's what you get for missing staff meetings.
You mean Tania Tobias?
She was Worf, Soleta, Kebron and McHenry's classmate from the "TNG: Starfleet Academy" Cadet Worf trilogy, written by Peter David. She was introduced into "New Frontier" in the more recent "After the Fall"/"Missing in Action" novels, when PAD jumped the action forward by three years. She's carrying some disability from the Dominion Wars, which will no doubt continue to be explored.
Calhoun calls her Tobias on page 18 of the new comic.
I think it would be interesting to see them all reunited and how they would handle things now after being through the Academy together and assigned to one ship, which was Worf, Soleta and Tobias only I think.
I think it would also be interesting to see if Tobias feelings for Worf come back if they were to appear in a book together.
I think it would also be interesting to see if Tobias feelings for Worf come back if they were to appear in a book together.
Yes, those three were stationed on the same ship in KRAD's No Limits short story Revelations.
A question for the Comic-experts here:
I never bought a Trek-comic, but decided that "Turnaround" will be first one. The only problem is, they're very hard to get here in Germany (The only good SF-Merchandise-Shop here in Hamburg doesn't sell Trek-comics at all, the owner says they're usually just sitting on the shelf and collecting dust...) and the only entry I found at Amazon Germany was this one:
http://www.amazon.de/Star-Trek-New-...ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1212740136&sr=8-2
Judging from the Page-count it looks like an Omnibus of the entire Turnaround-Series, but since Amazon Germany can't exactly be called a reliable source of information, I thought I'd better ask here before preordering it.
I never bought a Trek-comic, but decided that "Turnaround" will be first one. The only problem is, they're very hard to get here in Germany (The only good SF-Merchandise-Shop here in Hamburg doesn't sell Trek-comics at all, the owner says they're usually just sitting on the shelf and collecting dust...) and the only entry I found at Amazon Germany was this one:
http://www.amazon.de/Star-Trek-New-...ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1212740136&sr=8-2
Judging from the Page-count it looks like an Omnibus of the entire Turnaround-Series, but since Amazon Germany can't exactly be called a reliable source of information, I thought I'd better ask here before preordering it.
The trade omnibus isn't actually due until all five monthly issues have been released. Issue #3 is just out.
So it is the omnibus, thanks for the clarification.
Amazon claims, that it's available in Mid-October, I can certainly wait until then, it's not like I'm going to run out of books to read anytime within the next five years....
22 pp of story x five issues, plus six alternative cover art pages for issue #1, two cover art pages for #2 and approx. one each for the next three.
I am a German and although I have been living in Britain for many years now, I still get some of my comics from a German supplier. I have been with them for a very long time and never had any serious problems with them. They offer a subscription service and could send you the comics you want.
Here are the details:
Fred Schimpf
The Comic Company
Im Steinland 3
67592 Floersheim-Dalsheim
Tel.: 06243 / 6362
email: coco@comic-company-schimpf.com
Ja, das ist der Omnibus.
