Damn, but this is a good series. At first I wasn't on board with the art, but parsing it in terms of the animated series, it's fantastic.
But, oh shit, Kirk is a goddamn sexist bastard. The first page has him referring to one of the female servants on a particular planet as part of the planet's "natural resources." I'm hoping that this is a conscious decision on the part of the writer, David Tischman, demonstrating an understanding of Kirk's character in the original series. I'm hoping it's not, from a 2007 comic, a declaration of sexism on a level that we really ought to have moved past. Again, call me an optimist (those who know me laugh now), but I'm hoping this is narrative sophistication rather than social crudeness on display.
I've got one more issue of this series, and it only ran 6 issues, but I really think I may have to track it down. Perhaps it's the length of time since I've actually seen/read Star Trek, but this comic, and, based on yesterday, this series, really are excellent. Tischman and Conley have managed a really good adaptation of a particular era of the series, one that doesn't simply attempt to be an episode of the television series, but that instead transfers the atmosphere and narrative-style of the series to the two-dimensional medium of comics.
Was supposed to get back to Hard Time tomorrow, but we'll see about maybe reading the next issue of this series. Gordon Purcell is the artist, and the last time I saw him on something, it was Gammarauders, and I wasn't a fan of his style on that series. Interestingly, he's coming in in the next issue to replace an artist whose style is much more stylized that Purcell's, much like he did with Martin King in Gammarauders, so we'll see if that shift affects my enjoyment of the series. I'm so fickle :D.
More to follow.
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