I looked at John Byrne's current one briefly, and *UGGHH*, he's inking
himself, never a good idea for Mr. Bryne. In fact, I couldn't even look at too many pages. He's an amazing penciler, but if he's gonna finish it as well, then IMO he should just write it & let another artist render it.
OK if that works better. I like Byrne's art no matter who inks it. Nor do I care about Byrne's personal opinions.
As for current comics, IDW Publishing is producing many mini-series that can then be collected into trade paperbacks and sold in Borders and Barnes & Noble as well as comic book specialty shops.
Since their primary license is for Classic
Trek and
The Next Generation, there's quite a bit of material available.
As far as my favorites go, the best Classic
Trek series were
Klingons: Blood Will Tell as well as
Star Trek: Year 4, The Enterprise Experiment brought to life by Dorothy Fontana and
Trek super-artist Gordon Purcell.
I wish I could say that I enjoy the
Next Generation issues as much as Classic
Trek, but I've found them to be poorly written and badly drawn ... until
ST:TNG: The Last Generation series drawn by Purcell, came along. That's, as they say, fascinating.
If you don't like Byrne, there are plenty of series to ignore:
Star Trek: Assignment Earth (with Gary Seven and his cat). He's also done a few stories based on his interpretations of the Romulans, which comes by way of Caligula.
And the company's producing an Omnibus of other alreadly printed material, such as Marvel's
Early Voyages compilation (with Pike and Number One) and an upcoming tome featuring Malibu Comics'
Deep Space Nine series.
Pick out the ones you like, probably in trade paperback form since you can get them all at once with no running from one comic book store to the next.
And above all, live long and prosper!
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