I will post a picture here when I've got my electronics all figured out - can't make them talk to each other for some reason.
https://www.comics.org/issue/381201/
I really enjoyed this comic, and I think I'm definitely going to have to track down the other three issues of the series. Today's comic gave us a great science fiction story, one where we think one thing is happening, but it's actually something entirely other. As I mentioned when I read the first issue, the format of the comic allows for the Enterprise to really encounter strange new life forms, not just the humans with funny foreheads that tend to dominate in the television series. The viral lifeform encountered by the crew in this story is an excellent idea, and the symbiotic relationship that they have with the crew of the Enterprise, even though the crew don't realize it at the time, is an interesting way of exploring the universe. While perhaps not a completely new idea, the execution of it was great.
Gordon Purcell's art is very good as well, quite different from what I remember from Gammarauders. And not that I want to come down on him again, but I think that the more animated style of art from Steve Conley over the last couple of issues suited the series more so than Purcell's. The series starts out in the aesthetic vein of the animated series, which did for a while continue the 5-year mission, so to have the art jump from the cartoonish to a slightly more realistic depiction throws things off, for me at least. Which I think is almost the same critique I had for his work on Gammarauders. What I really have to do is see if I can find a comic that starts out with Mr. Purcell - then I won't have anything to compare it to and can appreciate it on its own merits.
Well, as much as we can do that with anything, if Derrida is to be believed.
More to follow.
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