From Marvel’s Star Trek #7.
Art by Mike Nasser with Inks by Klaus Janson.
It’s a difficult trick, getting the…unique nature of Shatner’s delivery across in static art, but Janson’s inks did that very thing several times, across a succession of artists, in a few issues of the original Marvel Star Trek comics series. Sadly, however, the scripts were generally (at best) lackluster, possibly because of the hamstringing nature of the licensing agreement (which stated they could only use concepts and characters as they had appeared in the first movie) and the art soon joined the written end of things. Dave Cockrum would be inked by a relative unknown to disastrous effect, or Gil Kane would show up just for the paycheck, creating barely-recognizable versions of characters before wandering off to have Dan Adkins replace him on the same issue. (However, there is an early Luke McDonnell appearance worked in there, though, and that’s pretty nice.)
Anyway, I can look at just about anything Klaus Janson inks and feel a little joy in my heart. The pupil-dilated, mouth-agape face in the second panel is Kirk in a way that a Greg Land-style photoreferenced version of William Shatner with his mouth open could never be.
