Update: Star Trek Comic Cover and Details Revealed!
Back in October TrekMovie.com wrote about some of the marketing plans that would be used on the new Star Trek film. One of the posts they wrote concerned a prequel comic by IDW publishing.
Some the details they passed along included:
“The title of the new comic prequel series is Star Trek: Countdown. It is being written by
Mike Johnson and Tim Jones based on a story by Star Trek director JJ Abrams and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. The series will run four issues, with the first coming out in January 2009 and one more issue in each of the next three months (with the final issue and a trade paperback collection in April). The Trek team are all fans of comics and have done many comic tie-ins to previous projects. This project is something they are paying close attention to, right down to picking the writers. Both Johnson and Jones have worked with Orci and Kurtzman in the past and Johnson has also been writing Superman/Batman comics for DC. The artwork is being done by Italian artist David Messina who has been working for IDW on a number of Trek comics, including the latest “Mirror Images” series, where his work has garnered rave reviews.”“it will cover ‘the origin of Nero, the mysterious Romulan who will ultimately threaten the survival of the entire universe.’ In a way, this comic book prequel evidences why the new Star Trek team has been resistant to labeling their film as a straight up prequel. As revealed recently, the plot of the film involves Nero traveling back in time to the era before the Original Series. This Comic Book prequel, which is said to ‘take us right up to the movie,’ is primarily set in the time before Nero goes back in time, specifically the Next Generation era after Star Trek Nemesis. The main characters for the prequel will not be the young TOS crew but Nero and the elder Spock (and possibly familiar characters from the TNG era). Explaining to TrekMovie why the comic series is important, Roberto Orci said: ‘is about how you connect the Next Generation era to our continuity, inspired by when we last saw Mr. Spock in Unification’.”
Now Latino Review has a copy of the new cover for the first comic in the 4-issue series titled, COUNTDOWN.
The comic looks and sounds pretty cool. But I do wonder why they are focused more on the latest canon and getting things right when from what I have seen and read they are ignoring a lot of the characters personal history in the new movie. Anyway I curious about the stories they come up with for this comic book series.
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