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A while back, Kevin and I were asked by our friend glennhauman to write an article about Star Trek comics for his comics/genre news site ComicMix.com. The piece was intended to offer fans of the new Star Trek film some examples of good "classic" Trek comics from the more than forty years' worth of stories in which Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise have appeared.

Armed with that mandate, and the knowledge that the piece would run as one of the site's "ComicMix Six" features, Kevin and I descended into our respective vaults. Once there, we began sifting through the archives and other detritus, searching for six stories which we thought offered a balanced representation of "the good stuff" from Star Trek's long history in comics. Since we're incapable of following even the simplest of instructions without finding some way to dork things up, we ended up offering seven candidates.

The result is just in time for the DVD release of the new Star Trek film! ComicMix Six: Classic Star Trek Comics You Should Read.

It's worth noting that we don't offer up these titles as what we think are "the best." Instead, we wanted to provide a worthy candidate from each of the different publishers who have given us Trek comics over the years. Hopefully, our list serves as an entry point to a treasure trove of tales featuring Kirk and Company that many fans might not even know existed.

Many thanks to Glenn and ComicMix for having us over to play!

Hey, did you know there was a novelization for the first Librarian movie, Quest for the Spear?

I didn't.



I stumbled across a copy today at a local Half Price Books.

So far as I can tell, there were no novelizations for the next two films in the series. However, Amazon lists a graphic novel for Return to King Solomon's Mines (which I also somehow missed). The book was published by Atlantis Studios, and their website also indicates some sort of ongoing Librarian series in comic form. However, Mines was released in 2006, and the Atlantis site still lists the series as "coming soon."

The Librarian is a franchise I'd love to play around in, should a license for original tie-in novels ever come about. If the rumors are true and the next entry in the films series gets a theatrical release, a tie-in license isn't out of the question.

That'd be fun. :)

It seems there's a problem with the long-delayed tenth issue of DC Comics' All-Star Goddamn Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder:

The Caped Cuss-ader: Comic's Profanity Blunder.

Too bad. The book's been like a slow-motion train-wreck since, well, the first panel of the first issue, but it's one of those books you keep reading just to see what'll happen next. At least it would've made things a bit more interesting.

Maybe.

Nah. Probably not.

...and it ain't of the King, it's of the Jedi."

Courtesy of one of my faithful readers, I give you: DM of the Rings