Next Generation Mirror Broken

[Nakita Akita]

I have Mirror Broken #1 of the print copy graphic novel.
Is there anyplace I can get the additional ones from series? I belive there are five total.
I've looked all over that I can think of that isn't too weird and I only saw one copy of like the third one.
I'm bummed out.
Are there any other good Next Generation print Graphic novels out there and available?

 

[Avro Arrow]

I have Mirror Broken #1 of the print copy graphic novel.
Is there anyplace I can get the additional ones from series? I belive there are five total.
I've looked all over that I can think of that isn't too weird and I only saw one copy of like the third one.
I'm bummed out.
Are there any other good Next Generation print Graphic novels out there and available?

Mirror Broken has already been collected, so you're probably better off going that way. First of all, it's more convenient, because you can get them all at once, in one place. Plus, Amazon US is currently selling it for $12.23, which means even though you've already got the first one, it would be cheaper just to buy the collection, rather than the remaining four issues at a $3.99 cover price each, which would cost $15.96.

Plus, the collection includes the "#0" Free Comic Book Day issue. The only one it doesn't have is the "Origin of Data" Loot Crate exclusive issue.

 

[JD]

Not sure if they're still in print since I went with the digital versions, but I enjoyed Hive, Intelligence Gathering, and Ghosts.
Hive is a post-Nemesis miniseries co-written by Brannon Braga dealing with a new encounter with the Borg. The story also involves a future version of Picard and Data who have both been assimilated.
Intelligence Gathering is a mini-series made up of interconnected stand alone stories set the TV series era.
Ghosts is a single story miniseries set during the series era.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I have Mirror Broken #1 of the print copy graphic novel... Are there any other good Next Generation print Graphic novels out there and available?

IDW sell copies off their own site, IIRC, plus digital versions

A great resource for what has been published is:
https://www.startrekcomics.info
(Mark adds in all the alternate covers).

https://www.startrekcomics.info/idwtngmirror.html

The TNG "Mirror" saga continues with:
https://www.startrekcomics.info/idwtngttm.html
and
https://www.startrekcomics.info/idwtngterra.html

 

[JD]

I got on here to ask if you read the two TNG MU follow ups to Mirror Broken, but Therin beat me to it.
I read the second one, Through the Mirror, a while back, and I really enjoyed it. If you enjoyed Mirror Broken, I would definitely recommend checking it out.

 

[Nakita Akita]

Not sure if they're still in print since I went with the digital versions, but I enjoyed Hive, Intelligence Gathering, and Ghosts.
Hive is a post-Nemesis miniseries co-written by Brannon Braga dealing with a new encounter with the Borg. The story also involves a future version of Picard and Data who have both been assimilated.
Intelligence Gathering is a mini-series made up of interconnected stand alone stories set the TV series era.
Ghosts is a single story miniseries set during the series era.

What!!!! Picard assimilated?????
Kill me now!!
I could never read that!

 

[Nakita Akita]

Mirror Broken has already been collected, so you're probably better off going that way. First of all, it's more convenient, because you can get them all at once, in one place. Plus, Amazon US is currently selling it for $12.23, which means even though you've already got the first one, it would be cheaper just to buy the collection, rather than the remaining four issues at a $3.99 cover price each, which would cost $15.96.

Plus, the collection includes the "#0" Free Comic Book Day issue. The only one it doesn't have is the "Origin of Data" Loot Crate exclusive issue.

I thought it was just for #1 only.
So I tried it anyway.
Hopefully it's all of them.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I thought it was just for #1 only.
So I tried it anyway.
Hopefully it's all of them.

I think the collection uses the main cover illustration from #1. But they'll all be in there!

 

[Nakita Akita]

I think the collection uses the main cover illustration from #1. But they'll all be in there!

It didn't.
I just got # 1 nothing else.
I think it was misleading. I think it stated more pages than is in just book #1.

 

[Avro Arrow]

It didn't.
I just got # 1 nothing else.
I think it was misleading. I think it stated more pages than is in just book #1.

Did you order this one from Amazon, which I had mentioned above that was selling for $12.23? If so, that is definitely supposed to have all five issues in it. Note that the ISBN on the Amazon one matches the one on MA here, and as you can see, it contains all five issues, plus "issue #0". (And you already mentioned the page count: there's no way a single comic book issue has 136 pages.)

If that is indeed the one you ordered, and yet they sent you a copy of just issue #1, then a mistake has been made. You should probably contact Amazon about this; in my experience, they are usually pretty good about fixing their mistakes. They'll probably even cover the shipping to return the wrong one.

 

[Nakita Akita]

Did you order this one from Amazon, which I had mentioned above that was selling for $12.23? If so, that is definitely supposed to have all five issues in it. Note that the ISBN on the Amazon one matches the one on MA here, and as you can see, it contains all five issues, plus "issue #0". (And you already mentioned the page count: there's no way a single comic book issue has 136 pages.)

If that is indeed the one you ordered, and yet they sent you a copy of just issue #1, then a mistake has been made. You should probably contact Amazon about this; in my experience, they are usually pretty good about fixing their mistakes. They'll probably even cover the shipping to return the wrong one.

Well let me check for sure. But it looks the same.


I checked, it does look like I got screwed.
Yippee.

 

[JD]

So it's the 32 page single issue, and not the 136 page collection?

 

[Nakita Akita]

So it's the 32 page single issue, and not the 136 page collection?

Yep. One comic book.
Not numbers 0-5 like it's supposed to be, like it says, like what I thought I was getting.
Typical ripoff.
I think it's a scam from Amazon, it helps their numbers.
Rip people off just s little bit, every so often.
Not enough to really make you mad, not enough where you demand your money back, just enough with the millions of customers to boost numbers without having to provide product.

 

[JD]

I'm pretty sure it was probably just a mix up, someone probably just wasn't paying close enough attention when they got it ready. I've ordered tons of stuff from Amazon and never run into a problem like that, that I can remember.
I would definitely get a hold of their customer service if I was you.

 

[Nakita Akita]

I'm pretty sure it was probably just a mix up, someone probably just wasn't paying close enough attention when they got it ready. I've ordered tons of stuff from Amazon and never run into a problem like that, that I can remember.
I would definitely get a hold of their customer service if I was you.

Okay. My bad.
I thought that I would get 5 individual comic books.
I guess it's the 5 comic books all in one 'book'.
I just wanted more!

 

[JD]

Most comics are usually collected in trade paperbacks AKA TPBs, which either collects a whole miniseries, or usually 4-6 issues of an ongoing series. For future reference most regular comics are around 20-35 pages, so if you've got something significantly longer than that, you've probably got a TPB.
There are two more miniseries, Through the Mirror, which features a run in between the Prime Universe TNG characters, and the MU characters from Broken Mirror, and Terra Ingonita, which features a series of standalone stories with an arc going on in the background that spins out of a plot point from Through the Mirror. Both of these have already come out in TPB.
There's also a Mirror Universe Voyager one-off comic, Mirrors and Smoke, that appears to be set in the same version of the MU as the TNG comics.

 

[Nakita Akita]

Most comics are usually collected in trade paperbacks AKA TPBs, which either collects a whole miniseries, or usually 4-6 issues of an ongoing series. For future reference most regular comics are around 20-35 pages, so if you've got something significantly longer than that, you've probably got a TPB.
There are two more miniseries, Through the Mirror, which features a run in between the Prime Universe TNG characters, and the MU characters from Broken Mirror, and Terra Ingonita, which features a series of standalone stories with an arc going on in the background that spins out of a plot point from Through the Mirror. Both of these have already come out in TPB.
There's also a Mirror Universe Voyager one-off comic, Mirrors and Smoke, that appears to be set in the same version of the MU as the TNG comics.

I think I'll stick with novels.
The comic books are fun, but too expensive for dialogue that would be maybe one and a half pages in a novel.
I wanted a better finally I guess, rather than
"...The End?"
Talk about 22 minutes of your life you'll never get back. Definitely changes my views about the three days I spent in a coma when I was a kid, at least THAT was an accident.
I went out of my way to buy the comic.

 

[Kor]

I love how just about every Trek graphic novel has one or two one-star ratings on Amazon complaining that they thought they were ordering a novel and not a comic book.

Kor

 

[JD]

I think I'll stick with novels.
The comic books are fun, but too expensive for dialogue that would be maybe one and a half pages in a novel.
I wanted a better finally I guess, rather than
"...The End?"

I think they were probably already planning more stories, which is why it says "the end?" like that.
I actually just started really getting into comic in the last few years, but I love them. They might not be able to go quite as deep as a prose novel, but the combination of art and text is a nice middle ground between novels and TV/movies.
If price is that much of an issue for you, you might want to try out digital comics, usually they are at least a little bit cheaper than the paper versions.

 

[Nakita Akita]

I love how just about every Trek graphic novel has one or two one-star ratings on Amazon complaining that they thought they were ordering a novel and not a comic book.

Kor

At least I have 3 of them now.
If I tape them back to front
It'll be like a novel.