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Next comic mini-series/one-shots?

I would love to see comics set in these era:

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I'm still a fan of a Phase II era second 5-year mission. The 70's series and recent mini series were great fun.
 
Andy Mangels said:
Bakula had ZERO likeness rights for the Quantum Leap comics (which I worked on). The comics only disappeared because Innovation closed. The series sold quite well.

Remember that likeness approval is generally only given to *STARS* and at the time he signed for QL, Bakula was essentially a character actor at best.
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Except Bakula did have likeness approval for the QL novels -- I know because I heard a great deal from the editors at Ace on the subject while those books were a going concern. I guess he didn't have the rights for comic books, but he most definitely had approval over novel covers.

(The reason why later QL novels all had Sam wearing a hat was because Ace got tired of asking Bob Larkin to redo the paintings over and over again because Bakula kept complaining about the hairline.)
 
KRAD said:
Except Bakula did have likeness approval for the QL novels -- I know because I heard a great deal from the editors at Ace on the subject while those books were a going concern. I guess he didn't have the rights for comic books, but he most definitely had approval over novel covers.
(The reason why later QL novels all had Sam wearing a hat was because Ace got tired of asking Bob Larkin to redo the paintings over and over again because Bakula kept complaining about the hairline.)
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Normally I wouldn't quibble with KRAD, one of the more knowledgeable geek-pros in the field. However, in this case, he's COMPLETELY wrong... :razz:

I couldn't recall Sam with a hat from any of the books (I've since sold), and I wasn't sure how the timeline of comic publishing vs. book publishing was. So, I did a little Googling, and voila:

This page shows ALL the novel covers:
http://www.quantumleap-alsplace.com/novels/index.html

Notice anything about Sam in a hat? Nope. Because he doesn't wear one. Ever!

Heck, even Dean Stockwell's only in a hat on TWO covers ( a UK-only one from 1990, and a US one from 1997)!

So, while Stockwell (not Bakula) *MAY* have had problems with Larkin's coverage of him, it apparently wasn't terribly widespread, happening only twice in seven years!

As for the comics, they predated the US books. The comic ran September 1991 to August 1993. The UK novels began in 1990 and the US novels began in November 1992.

Here's the comprehensive comic page link:
http://www.quantumleap-alsplace.com/comics/index.html

Note that Sam IS wearing a hat on three of thirteen covers here (NOT mandated by Bakula, but by the story) as he's a bus driver, a Santa, and a reporter doing a Clark Kent pastiche.
 
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One thing I didn't found in the poll was
Star Trek Online Era comics.

I'd love to see some comic books from STO time frame.
(The ST;Countdown counts for me as the 1st one, because of their choice to use STO uniforms)

There are multiple very interesting story lines in STO, some of them would be great to get even big screen treatment. But because that's just a dream, I'd love to see them at least in comics.
 
I picked DS9, DS9 Post, and Spotlights... heh, torturing comic artists who'd have to draw Jem'Hadar!! I've had good success with other SL's, so hopefully ST would be good too...
 
Yeah, but is that 1,228 (now 1,245 as of this writing) unique viewers? I kinda doubt it. I've looked in here on several occasions to read the comments others have posted, so I'd have to count for at least a handful of "looks" just on my own.
 
Dayton Ward said:
Yeah, but is that 1,228 (now 1,245 as of this writing) unique viewers? I kinda doubt it. I've looked in here on several occasions to read the comments others have posted, so I'd have to count for at least a handful of "looks" just on my own.
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I'm not saying they're unique viewers. What I mean is the number of voters grew very slowly, especially compared to the last time I did such a survey on the topic. That previous survey received 96 votes, and quite quickly:

http://therinofandor.blogspot.com/2008/01/second-stage-idw-comics-and-star-trek.html
 
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