Sunday, August 30, 2009

IDW Graphic Novels: Countdown and Year 4

Countdown is an essential graphic work for anyone who was confused by the Star Trek movie. This story is by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and is adapted for graphic form by Mike Johnson and Tim Jones. This book draws the crew of the Enterprise E, captained by a Data rebooted from the B4 model (something of a stretch IMO). We find out how Nero and his crew came to be the bald, tattooed Romulans we saw in the movie, and more about Spock's life on Romulus.

Year 4 is a graphic continuation of the Original Series, after the events involving Janice Lester. All stories are written by David Tischman. Some of the stories are a lacking in originality but are in all a good set of tales. One story, in particular,is an obvious homage to the write in campaign that saved Star Trek back in the day. A treat in this collection is the presence of characters we met in the Animated series, such as Arex and M'Ress.

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