So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[Christopher]

Yes. And the old Gold Key ST comics were frequently "weird, but not in a good way," with more than a few stories that seemed like they had to have been written by people who'd never seen the series, and barely had a clue what it was about.

Well, we're speaking more in terms of unusual crossovers, and that's pretty normal for comics. Comics universes tend to be a hodgepodge of genres and tropes that would normally never go together -- gritty noir detectives live in the same world and fight on the same teams with technological masterminds, pulpy space aliens, fourth-wall-breaking comedy characters, and straight-up sorcerors and gods. Comic-book universes are defined by their syncretism, their willingness to combine things normally kept separate and to experiment with unusual blends and reinterpretations.

 

[JD]

Yes. And the old Gold Key ST comics were frequently "weird, but not in a good way," with more than a few stories that seemed like they had to have been written by people who'd never seen the series, and barely had a clue what it was about.

Then again, my own taste in comic books ran more towards The Pink Panther, Super Goof, and Uncle Scrooge (all of which were, by coincidence, Gold Key titles). Along with lots and lots of nice, thick paperbacks of newspaper comic reprints (especially Beetle Bailey* and The Wizard of Id).

Hmm. Super Goof.

Super Goof Meets the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Marvel hasn't really been taking part in any of the recent crossovers, so this seems pretty unlikely. But IDW, who is doing the Disney comics now, and DC have done Star Trek/Green Lantern twice, Star Trek/Legion of Superheroes, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Batman, so Superman/Super Goof isn't totally out of the realm of possibility.

 

[Reanok]

I sarted reading Star Trek DS9 Enigma Tales by Una McCormack

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

I finished Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: Shield of the Gods by Christopher L. Bennett.
I'm now reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Enigma Tales by Una McCormack.

 

[Riverside2233]

ST: The Folded World (TOS) - I cannot - for the life of me - get into this book. The style is so different from the VAN series and it just hasn't grabbed my attention yet.

 

[JD]

Just started reading the first miniseries in @KRAD (and @David Mack's) post-PK Wars Farscape comics. Only a handful of pages into it, but so far it's great.

 

[USS Firefly]

Finished greater than the sum, even the second time a great book.
Tonight I am going to start with Destiny: Gods of night

 

[CaffeineAddict]

Finished up the Millennium Trilogy. Got a bit convoluted towards the end, but overall an enjoyable slice of DS9. I wish we had new novels in the TV-show time frame. I generally enjoy the current novel-verse, but there is none of the feel of DS9 left.

 

[John Clark]

Made a start on Avenging Amethyst by KRAD. It's entertaining so far

 

[Jbarney]

Took a brief break from Trek reading. My 12 year old son asked me to read The Crystal Shard, one of the old Forgotten Realms books. Good enough, but looking to get back into trek.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Just read Kim Vogel Sawyer's Grace and The Preacher and Sarah Sundin's Anchor in the Storm. Now reading Ronie Kendig's Conspiracy of Silence. After that, it's the Star Trek Constellations anthology.

 

[Reanok]

Sowed to death by Peg Cochran

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

I finished Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Enigma Tales by Una McCormack.
I'm now reading Star Trek: The Original Series: The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Return To Huckleberry Hill by Jennifer Beckstrand. After the adventures in Constellations, an Amish romance.

 

[JD]

I decided to take a break from the Farscape comics and started reading Hidden Universe Travel Guides: Star Trek: Vulcan.

 

[dstyer]

Reading Eddie Izzard's bio: Believe Me: a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens.

 

[Desert Kris]

The next excursion into the realm of old school, Mindshadow. I really liked Dillard's novelizations way back in the day, and felt like her prose agreed with me; it's nice to see that it's still working for me with this more original story.

 

[Greg Cox]

Sherlock Holmes and the White Worm by Sam Siciliano, which is exactly what it sounds like: a mashup of Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker.

 

[John Clark]

Fleet Action by William Forstchen.

 

[Greg Cox]

The Howling: Revenge of the Werewolf Queen. A comic-book sequel to the original movie.