Comics worth reading?

[Happenstance]

Hey all.

I’m trying to get some Star Trek comics as it seems to be a big hole in my Trek fandom. I already own the TNG Mirror Universe Collection and have just ordered the Q Conflict trade but could really use some advice from here. My only real requests are that they have to still be available so I don’t have to track stuff down second hand etc and I’m not interested in any Kelvin-verse books.

 

[Jayson1]

The Classic Star Trek 1984 comic series. Also basically anything with Peter David. The greatest Trek comic writer of all time. Not to slight others who are good but he is the gold standard.

 

[dstyer]

Debt of Honor from DC
Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor from IDW
Star Trek: New Visions from IDW with John Byrne's photo-manipulation art

that's just off the top of my head...

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor from IDW
Star Trek: New Visions from IDW with John Byrne's photo-manipulation art

Frankly, most of Byrne's Star Trek work is solid. His Romulans series was very good, and I loved Crew, his series about "The Cage"'s Number One. (Which doesn't fit at all now with Strange New Worlds, but that's how tie-ins sometimes go.) What I especially enjoyed about Crew is that there's a pre-Star Trek science fiction ethos to it; if I picked up an issue of Galaxy or Amazing Space Stories in 1959-1962, the stories and the way they were told would be similar.

 

[Jayson1]

Even though I suspect the new show is going to wipe everything in it from canon I would recommend also the Pike comic "Early Voyages" and also you had a Starfleet Academy comic with Nog in it. Also their was a good Deep Space Nine set of comics called "To Long a Sacrifice" which is a Odo story.

 

[Stevil2001]

Yeah, Byrne's stuff (at least, the stuff he's drawn; I haven't gotten to the photocomics yet) is the high point of IDW's hit-and-miss run.

 

[BillJ]

My only real requests are that they have to still be available so I don’t have to track stuff down second hand etc

That's a really limiting factor, because there is far more great stuff out there pre-2010 than there is now.

My pick would be "The Final Mission" (last mission of the Enterprise five-year mission), DC Comics Annual #2, Vol. 1. Published in 1986.

Also there is "Once a Hero" DC Comics #19, Volume 2. Peter David's final issue of Star Trek.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The old DC Mirror Universe saga, or basically their entire first run in the 80's.

The Starfleet Academy series from Marvel.

 

[Kor]

... (Which doesn't fit at all now with Strange New Worlds, but that's how tie-ins sometimes go.) ...

My favorite Trek comics are everything in the hardcover "John Byrne Collection."

I can't find the exact quote now, but I think John Byrne stated at some point that he wrote those TOS-era comics as if TOS was the only Trek that happened. Perhaps the only concession to later Trek was the ruling class of Klingons with forehead ridges. So even if he hadn't done "Crew" until SNW was in production, he would still do it the same way he actually did.

There was also the Borg sphere in New Visions #6, though it didn't identify them and we didn't actually see any drones. I haven't really gotten into New Visions much, so I'm not sure if any other later Trek stuff was used in other issues.

Kor

 

[ryan123450]

My favorite Trek comics are Bryne’s Romulans: Pawns of War, Marvel’s Starfleet Academy, and Debt of Honor.

You really have to get the Complete Comics DVD. I’ve been reading it for about a decade. So so much there.

 

[JD]

If you're a fan of the original Planet of Apes movies, the TOS/Planet of the Apes crossover is pretty fun.
Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment, which was co-written by DC Fontana was good.
There were some good stories in the Waypoint anthology series.
I also enjoyed TOS: Burden of Knowledge and the TNG: Ghosts.
Brannon Braga co-wrote a post-Nemesis TNG comics, Hive, which dealt with the Borg that I enjoyed.

 

[Christopher]

Brannon Braga co-wrote a post-Nemesis TNG comics, Hive, which dealt with the Borg that I enjoyed.

Rather, Braga plotted Hive, and it was co-written by Terry Matalas, the new Picard showrunner, and his writing partner Travis Fickett (with whom he co-ran 12 Monkeys). The plot to the Picard season 2 premiere, also co-written by Matalas, seems to have a couple of commonalities with Hive.

 

[dupersuper]

I agree with most of the recommendations but found Hive absolutely horrible.

Off the top of my head I'll just add The Death of Captain Kirk and The Trial of Captain Kirk (really all of the DC TOS and TNG stuff), the Marvel mini series set during the second five year mission (New Voyages?) and the recent Star Trek Valentines Day special. I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty (alas I post at work and can't go take a look at my Star Trek books).

Even though I suspect the new show is going to wipe everything in it from canon I would recommend also the Pike comic "Early Voyages"

With luck it won't: SNW takes place years later, after all.

 

[Unicron]

I've always liked DC's Mirror Universe Saga, which was part of their regular series but is self-contained enough that you could read the arc and see it as sort of an alternate sequel to TSFS. It brings up some interesting ideas.

 

[Happenstance]

That's a really limiting factor, because there is far more great stuff out there pre-2010 than there is now.

My pick would be "The Final Mission" (last mission of the Enterprise five-year mission), DC Comics Annual #2, Vol. 1. Published in 1986.

Also there is "Once a Hero" DC Comics #19, Volume 2. Peter David's final issue of Star Trek.

I get what you are saying but I did have to laugh at the fact that it’s a limiting factor that I only want to get comics that I can actually get

 

[BillJ]

I get what you are saying but I did have to laugh at the fact that it’s a limiting factor that I only want to get comics that I can actually get

Ebay is your friend.

 

[Happenstance]

Ebay is your friend.

Oh eBay and my wallet are already very well aquatinted through my other comic collection

 

[Tosk]

As far as the classic comics go, there's a DVD-ROM that came out that has every single Trek comic from 1967 to 2002. It's a very cost-effective way of adding many, many comics to your collection in one fell swoop.

 

[Smiley]

Is DC offering any of their old stuff through digital means?

One that I like that comes to mind that is relatively recent is the Star Trek/Transformers crossover miniseries.

 

[Jinn]

Is DC offering any of their old stuff through digital means?

Unfortunately, the way I understand it, IDW is the only one with rights to re-distrubute any Star Trek comics, so only a handful of older Trek stuff is available digitally.

Honestly, I'd kinda love to see Marvel get the Trek license and reprint all the old stuff as Epic Collections, like they're doing with Star Wars and Conan. On the other hand, I'd really dislike Marvel having so many big licensed properties. Considering their Doctor Who output, I'd be very excited to see what Titan could do with Trek.