The Star Trek story I've been waiting for all my life

Slight exaggeration, but not a huge one, really.

The latest Previews (the comics-ordering catalogue) included a new comic from IDW. The title is "Star Trek Second Stage -- Assignment: Earth". For a lot of us who grew up on the original series, this is pretty intriguing. Yes, it's the continuing adventures of Gary Seven in the 20th Century (and beyond -- the book supposedly moves at a clip of one year per issue). I think I'm far from the only one who has always wished that the Assignment: Earth TV series had seen the light of day.

Of course, the possible downside is that it's written by John Byrne, who is, to say the least, hit-and-miss. His most obvious flaw is that he has a tendency to completely ignore anybody else's continuity in favor of his own muse, which often gets him in trouble when he's on established stories. However, on a remote spinoff like this, that's not as much of a big concern. (He probably won't pick up on Lightfleet, but I never really expected to see that in anything authorized.) More seriously, he's not the hottest dialogue writer around, which may prove unfortunate.

OTOH, he's pretty imaginative, and has a good sense of the strange, so I'm curious enough to pick this one up. We'll see how it is...

The Star Trek story I've been waiting for all my life

Slight exaggeration, but not a huge one, really.

The latest Previews (the comics-ordering catalogue) included a new comic from IDW. The title is "Star Trek Second Stage -- Assignment: Earth". For a lot of us who grew up on the original series, this is pretty intriguing. Yes, it's the continuing adventures of Gary Seven in the 20th Century (and beyond -- the book supposedly moves at a clip of one year per issue). I think I'm far from the only one who has always wished that the Assignment: Earth TV series had seen the light of day.

Of course, the possible downside is that it's written by John Byrne, who is, to say the least, hit-and-miss. His most obvious flaw is that he has a tendency to completely ignore anybody else's continuity in favor of his own muse, which often gets him in trouble when he's on established stories. However, on a remote spinoff like this, that's not as much of a big concern. (He probably won't pick up on Lightfleet, but I never really expected to see that in anything authorized.) More seriously, he's not the hottest dialogue writer around, which may prove unfortunate.

OTOH, he's pretty imaginative, and has a good sense of the strange, so I'm curious enough to pick this one up. We'll see how it is...