IDW reprinting DC

[mmtz]

It looks like IDW will be reprinting various DC Star Trek comics. Two volumes are listed at Amazon with September and November publication dates.

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Archives-Peter-David/dp/1600102425/
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Archives-Best-Borg/dp/1600102654/

oops, found an earlier thread about this, sorry about reporting old news

 

[Christopher]

Interesting... that Borg one lists Paul Jenkins as the author, which must mean it includes Malibu's Operation Assimilation one-shot. So it's not just DC.

Ooh, I hope they reprint Marvel's '90s Trek comics too.

 

[DarKush]

Interesting... that Borg one lists Paul Jenkins as the author, which must mean it includes Malibu's Operation Assimilation one-shot. So it's not just DC.

Ooh, I hope they reprint Marvel's '90s Trek comics too.

I really hope they reprint the Marvel comics too. I was a big fan of both Early Voyages and Starfleet Academy and would love to add them to my collection.

 

[RookieBatman]

Yeah, I've pretty much got the complete runs of all the DC's, but my Marvel collections have more holes in them than Sam Beckett's memory after another leap (that pop-culture reference got a little cumbersome), so I hope they collect those as well.

 

[Brikar99]

I'd buy a TP of that crazy "Telepathy War" storyline Marvel did.

The one with the Jem'Hadar ships that fly backwards...

 

[Allyn Gibson]

That Borg one lists Paul Jenkins as the author, which must mean it includes Malibu's Operation Assimilation one-shot. So it's not just DC.

Erm, wasn't Operation Assimilation the story about the Romulan encounter with the Borg? In which case, it was Marvel, not Malibu?

And, honestly, a "Best of the Borg" would almost have to cast the net wider than DC. There were just the two Borg stories from DC that I can recall -- "The Worst of Both Worlds" and "The War of Madness."

 

[Saul]

This is excellent news. Hope they reprint "All those years ago".

 

[Christopher]

Erm, wasn't Operation Assimilation the story about the Romulan encounter with the Borg? In which case, it was Marvel, not Malibu?

Oh yeah, that's right. Well, they both begin with "Ma." Anyway, if they're reprinting one Marvel Trek comic, hopefully it means they'll do more.

 

[foravalon]

That Borg one lists Paul Jenkins as the author, which must mean it includes Malibu's Operation Assimilation one-shot. So it's not just DC.

Erm, wasn't Operation Assimilation the story about the Romulan encounter with the Borg? In which case, it was Marvel, not Malibu?

And, honestly, a "Best of the Borg" would almost have to cast the net wider than DC. There were just the two Borg stories from DC that I can recall -- "The Worst of Both Worlds" and "The War of Madness."

Was "The War of Madness." that awful looking one with Bane from Batman as the Borg villain?

 

[Christopher]

^^Well, actually it was "War and Madness," and it featured much better art than most of DC's TNG comics before it (Gordon Purcell was the only penciller on that series whose work I liked). But yeah, I do vaguely remember a Borg-ish villain who looked like Bane. It also featured Tholians with humanoid crystalline bodies.

Ahh, I just looked it up on the ST Comics checklist. The villain

Spoiler: War and Madness

was one of Hugh's group of liberated drones, but he'd taken over and adopted a more militant tack. And not only did he look like Bane, but his name was Enab.

 

[foravalon]

I was just copying and pasting Allyn Gibson , & Yeah, that character wasn't an accident, it was by design, and it was was ridiculous and, for me, destroyed any credibility the series had. Luckily, I believe that storyline was right at the end of the run.

 

[Christopher]

^^Very near the end of the run; issues 71-75 out of 80.

http://homepage.mac.com/mmtz/stcomix/dc2tng.html

 

[ClayinCA]

Boy, that sounds horrible. If it weren't two weeks later, I'd suspect you guys of colluding on an April Fools' prank and making this whole thing up...

 

[foravalon]

Hahaha, considering the paring, that would be an infamous collusion indeed!

But disturbingly, the truth is stranger than fiction...

 

[Brikar99]

Clearly, this story didn't capitalize on its full potential by also having Rekoj, Ezeerf rM, Ecaf-owt, and Niugnep to join Enab.

And then! And then Data would've gone into the Guardian of Forever, traveled into the past and gathered up the long-forgotten bunch of genetic supermen from the Eugenics Wars known as the Justice League and brought them to the future as the only LOGICAL way to defeat these vicious new Borg! And there would have been lots of phaser fights, and 'splosions and it would've been really, really kewl! Weeeee!

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Michael Jan Friedman told a story at Shore Leave many years ago that in the early '90s DC was talking to Paramount about doing a Star Trek/Superman crossover comic.

Friedman said the project died when one of the Paramount lawyers said, "But wait. Superman isn't real."

A pity.

The comic crossover I always wanted to read -- and no, the X-Men crossovers were not it, though Planet X was very good -- was Trek/Legion of Super-Heroes. Followed closely by Trek/Hawkman. (Specifically, the Tim Truman/John Ostrander Hawkworld version of Thanagar.)

And I can now remember Enab from "War and Madness." I probably rolled my eyes. I don't know if Margaret Clark, who was the editor at the time, didn't catch that Enab was Borg-Bane, or if she thought it was cutesy.

 

[KRAD]

^ Bob Greenberger was the editor of the DC Trek comics at the time of the proposed Superman/Trek crossover, and you can imagine what Bob's reaction was when he saw the announcement of Star Trek/X-Men.

 

[Dayton Ward]

I always thought Trek/Green Lantern might make for an interesting crossover, especially if set during the 5YM. After all, with his gold-colored command tunic, Kirk would totally own Hal Jordan's ass.....

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Hal would have to go below-the-belt, obviously. Except that's not in Hal Jordan's nature.

As long as Kirk doesn't rip his gold tunic with any flying leg kicks, I agree, Dayton -- Hal gets pwned.

 

[KRAD]

^ Unless Kirk's wearing the green tunic that day. Then he's screwed....