I assume it will. Weird that I completely forgot about it when I was composing my last post. I was thinking about the "Khan" mini as the last Trek issues. I guess somehow it didn't satisfy that emotional desire for Trek comics for me.
What is with IDW?
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I assume it will. Weird that I completely forgot about it when I was composing my last post. I was thinking about the "Khan" mini as the last Trek issues. I guess somehow it didn't satisfy that emotional desire for Trek comics for me.
According to Amazon, IDW is putting together two Infestation collections.
I recently bought the IDW Mirror Images series in e-book form from Amazon - it was very enjoyable IMHO.
I dunno. While I like what IDW has done so far for the most part, maybe they need to reevaluate their Star Trek line. Perhaps in addition to the occasional mini and one-shots, they can choose one point in TOS and continue forward from there as an ongoing series maybe. They were kind of doing that with "Year Four" but that seems to have fizzled out...
I think it's a safe assumption that "Year Four" wasn't as successful as IDW hoped -- otherwise it would've continued beyond 2 miniseries.
Nobody can claim IDW didn't try and make Star Trek successful. They put out a TON of product over the last, what is it, 5 years? But no matter what they tried, sales kept declining month by month, year by year. It may simply be there's NO winning formula for Trek comics today.
There's no denying IDW's efforts with Trek, but there's always going to be that part of me that remembers when DC had the license with a long-running monthly book during the '80s. It may have been that series was one of the few outlets for new Trek stories that took place between the movies at the time and was delivered on a regular basis every month...
I love IDW comics and infestation was great. want more star trek. But right reading
d&d and trueblood till star trek comes back. also G.I. Joe and transformesrs. now that transformers has IDW's first ongoing series when star trek comes back maybe they'll get one as well.
d&d and trueblood till star trek comes back. also G.I. Joe and transformesrs. now that transformers has IDW's first ongoing series when star trek comes back maybe they'll get one as well.
And, of course, the TOS era was supported by an ongoing movie series (and DC Comics incorporated adaptations of ST III and IV into its ongoing saga) and the continuing comic for TNG was supported by the biggest-rating first-run syndicated TV drama of its day. Naturally the core of ST fans and comics fans sampling ST comics will be bigger.
As others have mentioned, IDW's biggest sellers have been their JJ movie tie-ins. If IDW can hold out until the next wave of free movie publicity comes their way, I guess there'll be more ST.
But yeah, I agree that it is very disappointing that IDW's TOS "Year 4" line didn't progress beyond two mini-series. It certainly seemed that the intention was to have a series of interrelated mini-series (with Arex and M'Ress appearing) to fill out the leaner years of the 5YM. Interviews with DC Fontana at the time made it sound like she had more stories in development, but obviously sales on the first two mini-series weren't strong enough.
IDW had some editorial turnover around that time, as I recall. They made a big deal about "Second Stage" (an umbrella title for a whole bunch of projects), but then they vanished like vaporware. Losing editorial impetus can be a bigger blow to a line's momentum than low sales.
True. I recall when they had four ST mini-series running at once, they realised they had the potential to stagger the issues - and someone announced that one new ST issue would be released each week, but it rarely worked out. There'd be three weeks with nothing, then three different ST comics all on one day, then another wait of weeks.
I'd intended to suggest maybe trying a model akin to Dark Horse's Buffy comics, i.e. continuing one of the shows past their finales, but I remember the mention of TOS Year Four and how it apparently sparked minimal interest.
I think I would like to see IDW push out of the constraints of just doing "between the episodes and movies" stories. We know where the characters have been, show us where they're going next.
Of course, you run the risk of conflicting with the novels' continuity, but it isn't like they haven't largely ignored the novels with their comics already, KRAD's Jellico one-shot and the New Frontier mini notwithstanding.
I think I would like to see IDW push out of the constraints of just doing "between the episodes and movies" stories. We know where the characters have been, show us where they're going next.
Of course, you run the risk of conflicting with the novels' continuity, but it isn't like they haven't largely ignored the novels with their comics already, KRAD's Jellico one-shot and the New Frontier mini notwithstanding.
"The Ashes of Eden" (DC Comics) by William Shatner and the Reeves-Stevenses.
"Double Blind" (DC Comics) by Diane Duane, using her cast from "The Wounded Sky" and the "Rihannsu" saga.
"n-Vector" (WildStorm) by KW Jeter, introducing the DS9 Relaunch, post-series finale, including Tiris Jast.
"Divided We Fall" (WildStorm crossover) by John Ordover and David Mack, with TNG cast interacting with the DS9 novel relaunch characters.
"Double Time" (WildStorm) and "Turnaround" (IDW) by Peter David, continued the "New Frontier" novel saga.
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From the "Charting the Novelverse" thread (Mini-Series, One-Offs, Anthologies, Comics and Miscellanea)...
QuchHa' was first used in Summon the Thunder, which was released in June 2006. Blood Will Tell #1 didn't come out until April 2007.
^Okay. But I do recall being told by one of the authors that they got the term from the KLI.
That should be "Etana Kol"
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Etana_Kol
and also should include her girlfriend, Krissten Richter, also introduced in the DS9 series by us and used subsequently in the novels.
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Krissten_Ricter
Also, this list should include Wildstorm's Star Trek Special story "A Rolling Stone Gathers No Nanoprobes" which features Darey Hawk, the brother of Sean Hawk (and mentioned first in Section 31: Rogue)
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Darey_Hawk
And I know we did some other comic book references that aren't on this list.
^Thanks, Andy. And I actually just remembered another comics reference you threw in-- you used backstory for Marta Bantanides established in Starfleet Academy in Section 31: Abyss.
