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Not overly impressed! In fact, disappointed. Supposedly set between the first two movies of the 2009 Star Trek series reboot, this is actually a rehash of two episodes from TOS, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and "The Galileo Seven", featuring the new younger characters from TOS. Unoriginal and boring. Just watch the original series!

A quick read, consisting of two stories as did volume 1. Operation Annihilate gets the alternative timeline treatment. It's not that different apart from the fact that in this timeline Kirk's father died and he was brought up by an apparently abusive uncle who took in his mother (the uncle was her brother) and Jim. Older brother Sam couldn't put up with it and left home, something Jim has never forgiven him for. In this version, Sam isn't killed by the creatures. There was also the oddity that the things enveloped people's heads like the creature in the Alien series rather than clamping onto their backs and injecting their spines. The things seemed to dwell just in the brain and not take over the rest of the nervous system. I found the whole thing rather perfunctory.

The second story was original, based on the conflict between Romulus and the destroyed (in this timeline) Vulcan or rather its survivors. I wasn't keen on this either. Although enjoying a Kindle Unlimited trial sub at the moment, I'm not sure I'll bother with any more of this series. So an "OK" 2 star rating.

I found this in a Japanese comic store - it caught my eye because of the strange title, which I thought was just unfortunate, but it was actually intended. Just had to buy it for the hilarity. My friend thinks I have some weird comic fetish now - even though they had literally just been browsing the explicit girl-on-girl section. Hypocrisy i tell ya...

Gorgeous artwork

A quick, irreverent, humorous guide to gay dating. Poor guy can't ever find love. With typical Joe Phillips artwork in Joeboys style. Recommended.

Gorgeous artwork

A quick, irreverent, humorous guide to gay dating. Poor guy can't ever find love. With typical Joe Phillips artwork in Joeboys style. Recommended.

As a Prime reading program, this one was the first comic I read on Kindle and loved the story line and graphics. It was fun to read 2 short stories in this comic; and it makes you wonder what will happen next. If you liked 2009 movie series, this one will be definitely entertaining for you.

Wonder Woman by George Pérez Omnibus Vol. 3 collects Wonder Woman nos. 46-62, 168-169, 600, and War of the Gods nos. 1-4 featuring art primarily by Pérez and Jill Thompson. This volume begins on a more somber note than the other two, though it includes a celebration of sorts in Wonder Woman no. 50 before events begin building toward the War of the Gods. Pérez expertly builds toward this massive, DC-wide conflict while tying together various threads from his run, including the lost Amazon tribe of Bana-Mighdall, Circe, and Dr. Psycho to build to a massive conclusion in celebration of Wonder Woman’s 50th anniversary.

The War of the Gods ostensibly pits the Greek gods against their Roman counterparts, but soon the gods of various cultures as well as the New Gods of New Genesis and Apokolips are drawn in by Circe’s magic. Only the actions of Wonder Woman and the Earth’s magicians can prevent the destruction of reality. This omnibus only collects the four War of the Gods issues and the Wonder Woman tie-in issues, though the story extended to include Superman: The Man of Steel, Hawkworld, Flash, Batman, and others. Editors’ notes and dialogue help to fill in the gaps. To further celebrate Wonder Woman’s anniversary and show the character’s significance to the DC Universe, Pérez boldly killed her during the conflict with Circe. While she naturally returned from the dead to give the story resolution, this precedes The Death of Superman by more than a year and the aftermath was handled better. In a good connection with Crisis on Infinite Earths – which Pérez illustrated – Harbinger and Pariah play a role in these events.

In this volume, Pérez draws upon the full repertoire of characters he created for his post-Crisis Wonder Woman series in these final issues as well as Donna Troy (Troia) from his other seire,s New Teen Titans. The various Amazons and Dr. Julia Kapatelis and her daughter, Vanessa, play key roles in Wonder Woman’s life and in the coming of conflict. Meanwhile, Steve Trevor and Etta Candy offer insight into the growing paranoia surrounding the Amazons in Patriarch’s World. Inspector Ed Indelicato helps to give the everyman’s perspective, while villains Ares, Circe, Cheetah, and Silver Swan all get their due. Pérez handed off writing to William Messner-Loebs after Wonder Woman no. 62, but he gave a good send-off, seeing Steve Trevor and Etta Candy get engaged, all return to normal with Julia and Vanessa, and WW attend Vanessa’s junior high graduation. The message of turning the page and looking to the future pervades and strikes the right note on which to end.

This volume includes three additional stories with Pérez’s involvement. Phil Jimenez worked with Pérez to plot the stories in Wonder Woman nos. 168-169, which focus on the repercussions of reuniting the Amazons of Themyscira and Bana-Mighdall. This story also tacitly references the Mighdall Amazons’ part in the events of the War of the Gods. Gail Simone wrote the story for Wonder Woman no. 600 with inspiration and art by Pérez. It’s a small vignette with Wonder Woman and various women superheroes finishing a battle before WW heads off to see Vanessa’s high school graduation and echoes the note on which Pérez ended Wonder Woman no. 62. This third omnibus also includes character profiles and pin-up art from Brian Bolland, Cynthia Martin, Linda Medley, and others.

Wonder Woman by George Pérez Omnibus Vol. 3 is a must-read for fans of both WW and of George Pérez. Jill Thompson’s art is stunning, evoking the best of the comic book medium and the perfect compliment to Pérez’s mythical prose.

I'm getting really into these comics. This is better than the first volume, in my opinion. We have two story lines, the first the reboot/alternate universe's version of Operation Annihilate!, and the second a sorta sequel to the movie.

If you at all liked the 2009 movie, and read comics (even just occasionally), read it. Read it read it read it read it. I recommend it over the first volume. You can honestly just skip that, though all the comics are done really well.

It's decent. I like decent! This comic has got purdy drawings of the hot people from the movie. I'm so much more a fan of the reboot than any other star trek franchise. I can't wait for the sequel. Benedict Cumberbatch OMG. OMG will there be comics with Benedict Cumberbatch in them? I'll buy all the toys too. Please please please make me ridiculous stuff to buy. I even ate Burger King to get toys and glasses. BURGER KING! That food is disgusting and I bought it and ate it for the opportunity to have merchandise. I'm totally gonna be so into only the reboot and call myself a trekkie and irritate my traditional trekker friends and family.

I'm such a blasphemer! it's gonna be so much fun

and then when the cumberbabes are finished with star trek we will move into Tolkien fandom bwahahahahahahah!

A colorful adaptation of Star Trek with all the favorite characters. Not to be missed for the Star Trek/Comic fan. Nice clear art work and coloring.
The enterprise receives a distress beacon from and old Star Fleet ship, one that disappeared over 200 years ago. They where attacked, many are dead, but the sound is gargled.....and something goes wrong with some of the crew members. Can Spock, Scotty, Bones and Jim figure it out ?

These are neat tie-in novels to the Nu!Trek movies. They take episodes from the original series and revamp them to fit the new universe. It's great to see Gary Mitchell in the first story arc, and Janice Rand in the second. This volume is composed of the "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and the "Galileo Seven" story lines. Read more after the page break.


Gary Mitchell was a year ahead of Captain Kirk in this continuity, and his friend at the Academy. When Kirk was suddenly promoted to be Captain of the Enterprise, he asked for both Mitchell and Kelso - also from this episode originally - to be transferred to the Enterprise. It's a clear set up for the story to take place as it did in the series.

And it really does. It's actually kind of odd that other than that bit about the Academy, everything is the same as the episode as far as I recall. The art is quite good, although Pine-as-Kirk's lips get big and weird, and kinda feminine.

Galileo Seven, on the other hand, departs from the episode, and it's all compliant with what has happened in the movies. It's a nice surprise, and stays quite true to the episode itself. Some scenes - and by some I mean 'many' - are lifted directly from the episode itself. The art gets kind of funky, though, and it distracted me. The characters change appearance slightly, and Spock is a little more puffy cheeked than Quinto. It's where the minus half star went, actually. Rand gets really weird at some parts in this, too!

Overall, good fun that stays true to the spirit of the original series, while being Nu!Trek compliant. I had a couple hours to kill in a Barnes and Noble, and this was a great way to spend half of that time.

Uninspiring retread of two TOS episodes, using the new 2009 cast and ship instead of the originals. Aside from a few small details, you might as well just rewatch the original versions of "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and "The Galileo Seven."

This is exactly why I don't want to see the next movie feature Khan, the Guardian of Forever, tribbles, or any other plot that Shatner's crew has already tackled. Boldly go where no TOS episode has gone before!

It’s nice to see comics coming back into fashion. There are so many new titles this year and Star Trek is one that promises to keep on coming. (Okay the titles may not be exactly new since so many of the lines seem to be based on popular shows/movies/games but you know what I mean.)
Based on the latest Star Trek movie, Mike Johnson continues the story with the characters as we know them from JJ Abrams imagining of the popular series.
I have to say that I’m not sure I like James T Kirk in this one. There’s nothing wrong with him except that he’s an arrogant idiot who really needs to pay more attention but then again he may have always been that way.
Any reader is going to guess what is going to happen when the Enterprise comes across a distress beacon out in space. The reports on the beacon claim there’s something out there and what does Kirk do but ask the crew to pick up the beacon and move forward at full speed. (You know right now what’s going to happen, don’t you?) I hate stupid people.
Aside from that, this is a good start to a new series. Not sure I’ll be in a hurry to pick up the next one but I did enjoy it and will most likely enjoy future issues.

Read this review on my blog at: http://abnormallyparanormal.blogspot.com/2012/04/comic-book-review-star-trek-vol...

Plot: This is a new in-between comic book series that takes place after the 2009 Star Trek movie, but before the sequel film due out in 2013. Because it's a serialized comic book, very little actually happens in this volume. It sets up the story arc with Captain Kirk and Spock, Scotty, Bones, etc. all continuing on with their space adventures post movie. The Enterprise is on its way to the edge of the galaxy when they encounter a ship that had apparently vanished 200 years earlier while on the same mission. A member of the crew gets affected by the old ship and he starts doing weird, paranormal things. Mr. Spock wants to take drastic measures to eliminate the unknown threat, but Kirk is not hearing of it, and it ends on that cliffhanger over what Kirk is going to do about it.

Characters: With something like this, an adaptation of a good adaptation, you look for whether the characters seem in-character—and they do. The rapport between Kirk and Spock and Scotty (and everybody, really) is very much what you can see in the movie, if not the original Star Trek TV series. They are perfectly lovable, or infuriating, depending the character.

Writing: Here I'll have to mention not only the writing, but the artwork, too. First, the writing is good, the dialogue is very 'Trekkie,' in that you have the kinds of commands being shouted that you'd expect on a Star Trek episode. It works because it's familiar. Second, the artwork is very good, as expected, and features the typical western comic book style. The characters actually look just like how they do in the 2009 film, not like the original Star Trek TV actors. It gives you the right impression that you're reading about an event taking place in-between these newer films.

Storytelling: This is like watching an episode of Star Trek. It gets right to the point, or to the inciting incident and then the set-up. I do sort of wish it had gone a bit further than it did, but it's definitely the beginning of a promising story arc.

Overall Quality: High quality in the story, the writing, the art, even the in-characterness of the characters.

Favorite Moment/Scene: I didn't think any scene was so amazing, but what stands out to me is when we see Gary, the crew member affected by the 200-year-old ship floating in space, and first realize he's tripping on some space junk, so to speak. It's nothing I haven't seen before, but it stands out.

*I received this title from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.

I'm already a fan of Joe's art from his other books (Cali Boys, Boys will be Boys) and only stumbled over this book recently. I was thrilled to finally get my hands on some of his comic strips and I wasn't disappointed. This book features eleven full color short stories and they're all a fun and amusing read. And as always I enjoyed his work and looking at his characters very much. I would truly have loved this book to be longer, but it's nonetheless worth it's price.½

Joe Phillips’ sexy comic art has garnered a legion of fans here at ISO, and his trademark style of painting hunky young men in erotic situations is quickly becoming widely recognized around the world.

Once again the young men are showing their pride, with big smiles and big everything else. Phillips takes us across the beautiful landscapes of California, where the boys are up for fun in the sun. But, unlike anything he’s done before, this time around, the individual images also work together to create scenes and short stories. And each one is sexier than the one before! Explicit, full-color paintings throughout. 80 pages, hardcover. -- Insightout Book Club