Kahless (the Clone) is a major player in the current Star Trek comic book; causing all kinds of trouble across the galaxy and shoving a returned-from-the-Celestial-Temple Captain Sisko into a hero's quest. It's a great series, set between Voyager's finale and Nemesis, so you've got all sorts of folks turning up and playing roles. I love it, highly recommend.
That's cool! My comic reading days are behind me now - I ducked out after Chris Claremont left Uncanny and hyperbole-free X-Men in the nineties, and never went back. That said, I'm enjoying giving my relatively vast comic collection to my kids and re-reading them.
I still enjoy keeping an eye on what comics are doing, so it's cool to learn about new things.
Which comic is this i.e. what's the title (I assume it's something under the IDW imprint) and who's the writer...?
Vast is always good, passing them on to the next generation is best (no pun intended).
Star Trek (2022) is written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, an absolute dynamo of a writing team (they're doing the rounds at Marvel and DC too on some really interesting titles), with art by Ramon Rosanas, who does a great bit of likeness capturing without tumbling down the uncanny valley of caricature. There are other artists that come in later who I prefer-- Marcus To is a Big 2 guy who knocks it out of the park-- but it's a blast.
Just seeing Sisko interact with Data and Crusher, Tom Paris, even Scotty, is wonderful. There are legacy characters-- Sato's Andorian great-grand-daughter!-- and even Harry Kim gets his moment in the Sun on Tzenkethi. There are only 5-6 trades out, so really easy to job into.
Also, Star Trek: Defiant (2023) spins out of the events of the former, written by Chris Cantwell (who created Halt & Catch Fire, one of my favourite TV shows of all time??) with stiffer artwork by Angel Unzueta. It's Worf stealing the Defiant with a rag-tag crew to deal with the threat of Kahless... and reunite with his son. Not spoiling much, but after that threat is resolved, they start running Mission: Impossible-style disavowed assignments for the Federation.
There's been a Sons of Trek book with Alexander, Nog and Jake, with a little bit of Q JR in the mix, as well as other bits here and there. They've really woven the entire mythos into a substantive, wide-ranging yet accessible new line, in an attempt to do what Marvel did with Star Wars when they got the license.
Thanks for the comics intel! Nobody here I recognise, but I'll certainly listen out for these folks. I'm not on top of the current generation of comics folks at all. 🙂
"Vast is always good, passing them on to the next generation is best (no pun intended)."
Aye, I used to absolutely love going to comic marts, where I would cruise through the bargain bins and pick up quite a lot of comics for 20p (i.e. a quarter in US money) - The Micronauts being a particular favourite in this regard.
I also collected a lot of more recognisable titles, including a complete set of X-comics from about 1986 until the early nineties. (Amusingly, the most valuable comic I have is The New Mutants #98, the first Deadpool appearance, at $400-$1000 or so), which I really hadn't realised until I had to get an insurance quote for the collection when moving house internationally.
One of the best thing about having kids is not having to feel so guilty for how much money I spend on nerdly things because now it's all stuff I can hand on! 😂
Kahless (the Clone) is a major player in the current Star Trek comic book; causing all kinds of trouble across the galaxy and shoving a returned-from-the-Celestial-Temple Captain Sisko into a hero's quest. It's a great series, set between Voyager's finale and Nemesis, so you've got all sorts of folks turning up and playing roles. I love it, highly recommend.
That's cool! My comic reading days are behind me now - I ducked out after Chris Claremont left Uncanny and hyperbole-free X-Men in the nineties, and never went back. That said, I'm enjoying giving my relatively vast comic collection to my kids and re-reading them.
I still enjoy keeping an eye on what comics are doing, so it's cool to learn about new things.
Which comic is this i.e. what's the title (I assume it's something under the IDW imprint) and who's the writer...?
Cheers!
Chris.
Vast is always good, passing them on to the next generation is best (no pun intended).
Star Trek (2022) is written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, an absolute dynamo of a writing team (they're doing the rounds at Marvel and DC too on some really interesting titles), with art by Ramon Rosanas, who does a great bit of likeness capturing without tumbling down the uncanny valley of caricature. There are other artists that come in later who I prefer-- Marcus To is a Big 2 guy who knocks it out of the park-- but it's a blast.
Just seeing Sisko interact with Data and Crusher, Tom Paris, even Scotty, is wonderful. There are legacy characters-- Sato's Andorian great-grand-daughter!-- and even Harry Kim gets his moment in the Sun on Tzenkethi. There are only 5-6 trades out, so really easy to job into.
Also, Star Trek: Defiant (2023) spins out of the events of the former, written by Chris Cantwell (who created Halt & Catch Fire, one of my favourite TV shows of all time??) with stiffer artwork by Angel Unzueta. It's Worf stealing the Defiant with a rag-tag crew to deal with the threat of Kahless... and reunite with his son. Not spoiling much, but after that threat is resolved, they start running Mission: Impossible-style disavowed assignments for the Federation.
There's been a Sons of Trek book with Alexander, Nog and Jake, with a little bit of Q JR in the mix, as well as other bits here and there. They've really woven the entire mythos into a substantive, wide-ranging yet accessible new line, in an attempt to do what Marvel did with Star Wars when they got the license.
Thanks for the comics intel! Nobody here I recognise, but I'll certainly listen out for these folks. I'm not on top of the current generation of comics folks at all. 🙂
"Vast is always good, passing them on to the next generation is best (no pun intended)."
Aye, I used to absolutely love going to comic marts, where I would cruise through the bargain bins and pick up quite a lot of comics for 20p (i.e. a quarter in US money) - The Micronauts being a particular favourite in this regard.
I also collected a lot of more recognisable titles, including a complete set of X-comics from about 1986 until the early nineties. (Amusingly, the most valuable comic I have is The New Mutants #98, the first Deadpool appearance, at $400-$1000 or so), which I really hadn't realised until I had to get an insurance quote for the collection when moving house internationally.
One of the best thing about having kids is not having to feel so guilty for how much money I spend on nerdly things because now it's all stuff I can hand on! 😂
Stay wonderful!
Chris.