There’s Gonna Be Sex Tonight

CLICK THIS LINK RIGHT NOW: Paul Pope’s Star Trek Comic

Four items, three of which are not unabashed bits of Star Trek enthusiasm.

1.
The second issue of El Gorgo has been printed and is waiting for your Paypal information. Sure, you could read it in its entirety for free, but I honestly think these guys deserve your pocket change for actually printing a comic about a gorilla luchadore and making it much better than it actually had to be to keep me entertained.

2.
A second printing of the first issue of Glenn Brunswick and Dan McDaid’s Jersey Gods is hitting stands this week. I’ve been promising them a letter of comment for some time but I am quite wary of doing this as I’m afraid it’d wind up being one of those unabashed “Oh my god like you guys are so good and Glenn’s script is super-witty and sweetly romantic while managing to capture the cosmic bigness of the gods in the story and that Dan McDaid, boy, he can draw real good and when are you guys going to start a fan club with a button set and a newsletter I’d be the first member” sort of things, but suffice it to say that if your local shop has a copy of #1 and #2 in stock on Wednesday, you’d find yourself a better human being if you deigned to spend money on these books. You’ll notice them by their fine covers by Mike Allred and Darwyn Cooke, two gentlemen that you may have heard of.

3.
I got the trade for Secret Invasion because I remembered liking bits and pieces of it in single issues while being put off by the way the series hung together as a periodical. I can’t help feeling that is comes off as being really sparse despite having quite a lot of talking and punching. I read the entire 8-issue series in about an hour and didn’t feel like I was missing anything. Am I alone in thinking that there’s no real depth to the work and that thematically, it’s pretty barren? Yeah, there’s plenty of rah-rah Marvel Fan Moments that I genuinely enjoyed (Maria Hill versus Jarvis on the Helicarrier in a sequence that should have been in one issue instead of spread across three, Nick Fury stone-cold shooting aliens in the face) but it left me cold in the end, feeling like a means to an end instead of a story in its own right.

That said, that Thunderbolts crossover trade was a lot of fun, mostly because I enjoy Norman Osborne vamping it up and being all arched eyebrows and hissed commands when he’s not in the public eye.

4.
Man, that new Star Trek trailer, huh? Sure is something, isn’t it?

And then there was the time during the second Five Year Mission that Captain Kirk and some other crew members rode on the backs of telepathic dinosaurs.

There’s Gonna Be Sex Tonight Redux: The Trek Edition

I got to do one more thing to help out Carla and Lance.

The second I heard about a screening for Star Trek II to benefit Lance and Carla, I emailed furiously to get the chance to design the poster. I talked to Jennifer Rose at Santa Barbara’s Downtown Organization and she gave me the go-ahead. A few hours of work, some back-and-forth, and this was the result. They’ll soon be up around town and please feel free to distribute this however you wish. I’d be glad to provide higher-resolution or resized versions of this poster for anybody who needs one.

“Star Trek Rap” by Prime Directive and Galaxy Class. Lyrics NSFW.

I very much need to hear this.

I know that someone out there has a copy of this Starship thing in mp3. I require it.

Behold!

I’m thinking about getting Panel 3 blown up to poster-size.

A Single-Act Drama Concerning The Current Financial Crisis

And now, two panels from the first issue of Gold Key’s Star Trek comic…

…that I opened randomly while checking out the new Star Trek: The Complete Comic Book Collection DVD.

Oh, what’s that? Hang on, hang on, hang on, it’s time for the…

REEEEEE-MIX!

Star Trek: The Complete Comics

Fuck yes, my nerd heart beats fast for this.

I love Star Trek: The Manga so, so much.

From Star Trek: The Manga – Uchu
Written by David Gerrold, Drawn by Don Hudson.

(Treknerd) Thought Of The Moment

With Star Trek, particularly The Next Generation, featuring what amounts to a socialist society (no money, the Federation is essentially the UN done right, equal rights and diversity) as its core, I wonder why the fanbase features so many conservatives.