IDW press release on comics
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That's a bummer, but it's probably a good way to keep the licensing costs down so it doesn't sink the ship before the shakedown cruise is even over. Isn't that what happened to Wildstorm's license? Or Marvel's second License? We never did get to see resolution in some of those great books like Starfleet Academy or The Early Years....
Sweet, an Assignment: Earth series. 
Sci said:
Emh said:
Sweet, an Assignment: Earth series.
Sounds a bit Doctor Who-ish.
I don't know, did you think the Eugenics War books were Doctor Who-ish?
What always kind of bugged me though was the implication, made in several of the Gary Seven-centric books and comics out there, that Gary was a time-traveler as well as a sort of intergalactic James Bond. He never mentioned time-travel in Assignment: Earth, (except when talking about kirk and his time-displaced lot) sure he had knowledge of future events provided to him by his employers, aka the Aegis, but he was downright confused by the presence of the 1701 in his time.
Plus I think it benefits from being firmly set in the Star Trek Universe, so in that regard it's pretty much just like any of the other trek series simply sans-starship. I do hope it has that 1960's Bond-ish flare, if you couple that with the sci-fi aspects then you've got a winner in my book!
foravalon said:
Sci said:
Emh said:
Sweet, an Assignment: Earth series.
Sounds a bit Doctor Who-ish.
I don't know, did you think the Eugenics War books were Doctor Who-ish?
At the time that I read them, I had never seen Doctor Who. Since being exposed to DW, I have thought that "Assignment: Earth" and other stories based on Gary Seven are a bit Who-ish. I'm not saying that Gene Roddenberry was copying or that anyone's engaging in any acts of plagiarisms -- it would, in point of fact, have been virtually impossible for it to be plagiarism since Doctor Who apparently never aired in Los Angeles until the 1970s. But the parallels -- an older man with an odd name and a mysterious past, the capacity to instantly travel anywhere on Earth, the naive young female assistant, the presence of a pen-like machine capable of manipulating almost any computer system or door, etc. -- are striking.
I will have to stop by my local comic book store. Is that new TNG series starting up in January?
Yay!!!!!!!!!
Marvel/Paramount's "Starfleet Academy" did not end on a cliffhanger (and Pava lives on in the "Titan" novels). Only the Pike series was terminated mid story arc.
Thank you for being one of the few people on the Internet who realizes that a similarity between two works can be coincidence rather than theft. In this case, it is provably a coincidence; the Doctor's sonic screwdriver made its screen debut only 13 days before "Assignment: Earth" premiered and therefore sometime after it had been written and filmed. Also the Doctor's Earthbound, most Gary Seven-like phase didn't begin until 1970.
However, the original A:E series premise had a stronger time-travel component; Gary was sent from the future to battle time-traveling aliens called the Omegans. In fact, that premise bore a lot of resemblance to the Temporal Cold War concept.
Back on topic, I'm intrigued to see what John Byrne's version of an A:E miniseries will be like. Though I'm a bit miffed that he beat me to it.
Wow! I've been trying to limit the additions to my Trek reading list, but these give me second thoughts about my "no IDW" limit.
It didn't end on a cliffhanger, but it did end during a story arc-- they were obviously building toward what the last issue called the Viator Crisis.
I love it too!Emh said:
Sweet, an Assignment: Earth series.
Is anyone else very much hoping that the artwork for the New Frontier comic is tentative or a placeholder? I know I am, not being a fan of Shelby and Mac looking pale and stone-like. Le sigh. Still better art than anything I could ever produce.
There have been two versions of that artwork online already. On one Mac's scar is darker. Art is art; sometimes you'll love something everyone else seems to hate, and vice versa.
Wording of the IDW Press Release, "To mark the launch of SECOND STAGE with New Frontier #1, IDW will debut its new Quad Cover™ format, with four separate covers bound directly onto the same issue."
So you can enjoy all four covers. One version will have Peter David himself sitting in Mac's captain's chair!
It's just the cover (or one of them) to the first issue. I believe it's by a different artist than the one who's doing the interior art.
According to the latest Zocalo (a Babylon 5 email newsletter), all four New Frontier covers and interior art are done by the same artist.
I don`t see anything wrong with Shelby but the Calhoun on the cover I have seen could be better but he could also be a lot worse.
I don`t see anything wrong with Shelby but the Calhoun on the cover I have seen could be better but he could also be a lot worse.
