Star Trek Comics Weekly #20
This week’s column examines the first twelve issues of DC’s second classic Star Trek comic line, as well as the first annual, co-written by Peter David and George “Sulu” Takei.
Rich Handley Author and Editor
This week’s column examines the first twelve issues of DC’s second classic Star Trek comic line, as well as the first annual, co-written by Peter David and George “Sulu” Takei.
We’ve reached the end of DC Comics’ first acclaimed Star Trek series, written by Peter David—but another run would soon follow.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home altered the landscape of DC Comics’ monthly Star Trek title.
In its lead-up to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, DC Comics faced quite a challenge. Here’s how DC got around it.
This week’s column explores DC’s Star Trek #21–32, during which James T. Kirk commanded the USS Excelsior, while Spock captained the USS Surak.
“New Frontiers,” published in DC’s Star Trek #9-20, took eight months to unfold and brought back familiar faces from the episodes and films.
This week’s column examines DC Comics’ Star Trek #1–8, leading up to the company’s adaptation of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
Despite common wisdom, Marvel’s Star Trek was undeniably connected to the TV show, thanks to sly writers determined to do what they’d been mandated not to.
This week, we’ll examine issues #1–9 of Marvel’s first Star Trek series, in the context of how well they fared with regard to TV tie-ins. For Marvel, it was a tricky situation.
The Star Trek comic strips’ final 12 stories were not as consistently well told or drawn as Thomas Warkentin’s, but they did provide a few tie-ins to televised and filmed Trek.