![]() (It didn’t help that the then current costumes were the dreadful millennial death cult unis from that film, which were barf in cloth form. ![]() And the Marvel go-around fell flat, and collapsed not all that long after serializing the Motion Picture adaptation. The Gold Key books glow with nostalgia concomitant with simple old-timeyness, but their plots are a bit clunky, and the art (apart from the sometimes quite nice painted covers) left something to be desired. Because who can resist the goateed so-good-to-be-bad doings of the Mirror Universe?ĭC’s debut as the purveyor of comic book Trek lore was actually the third Trek continuing series - and the first artistic success. Today we look and one of the more delightful comic runs that Trek ever had, one that came early on in DC’s first stab at an ongoing. Something like The Modala Imperative, an adventure that spanned generations and reunited Spock and McCoy in the 24th century, would be impossible for live-action, and thus could only take place in book form. Indeed, the comics often offered enhanced opportunities for experimentation, for the Enterprise-centric narrative to boldly go places no television hour-long could. ![]() Star Trek comics have been around almost since the show’s earliest days on air, and while the first Gold Key books were nothing to write home about, over the years there have been a number of series and individual issues worthy of note.
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