True Blood #1, True Blood: The Great Revelation, & Star Trek: Countdown #2

[northstarfan]

The show's not my cuppa, but I know there are a couple of fans here, so:

HBO's True Blood is getting another comic-book treatment, with the first issue of a six-part mini due out in July from IDW. Issue #1 is due to debut at SDCC 2010 and looks like it'll hit store shelves the week after. $3.99 cover price, 32 pages per issue (which, given most of IDW's recent monthlies, likely means 22 pages of story and 10 pages of interviews/house ads). Story to be handled by Allan Ball, David Tischman and Mariah Huehner, with show writers Elisabeth Finch and Kate Barnow contributing to plot. Covers by J. Scott Campbell, interior art by David Messina. Currently available for pre-order from HBO's website.





There doesn't appear to be any interior preview art available, but David Messina was also on art duty for Star Trek: Countdown.







So not that bad -- he can do passable actor likenesses, anyway.

Ending with a few pages from David Wohl and Jason Badower's True Blood: The Great Revelation comic from Top Cow to punt this post toward something like an on-topic close.











Suggested tags: title: true blood, title: star trek countdown, creator: david messina, creator: david wohl, creator: jason badower, genre: previews, publisher: idw, publisher: top cow

Comments

[jeyl]

Sadly that female romulan crewmember was never seen in the actual movie. Although they say she and other survivors did make it through the black hole and found their way to Earth.

[kirke_novak]

There are female Romulans? I thought that they reproduce spontaneously by hating on Vulcans (trufax - 40% of Narada's crew were Nero's kids).

[jeyl]

Don't forget the lobotomies that each of the crew must undertake. We don't want them to have any rational thought or moral judgement. Sure, it had the tendencies to influence delusional thinking. That hologram of Nero's wife? Turned out to be a commercial for clothing designed for pregnant Romulan women. Why else do you think Nero isn't in the picture?

[icon_uk]

A female Romulan Warbird Commander was seen in only the second episode to feature the Romulans; "The Enterprise Incident".

That's more senior Officers than Classic Trek ever showed in the Federation, where female Captains were viewed as an insane idea.

[kirke_novak]

I feel both horrified and appalled that someone would think I don't know that. Normally, I'd be, like "bb, just kidding, I know! :D" but as a trekkie, I'm afraid I have to take it personally.
Me, you, Bat'leths, tomorrow at 5pm. We are fighint to death (or until someone says they had enough and are going home)

[icon_uk]

You bring a bat'leh if you like... insanely impractical shape that it is, no amount of swinging that thing will ever convince me it's a remotely plausble martial weapon, the concave curved blades require you to let your opponent get CLOSER to you before it's functional.

Me, I'm sticking to a nice, well charged phaser thanks.

"Today it a good day to die" - Klingon proverb nicked from Native Americans IIRC

"Today is a good day for some other bugger to die" - Mandalorian proverb

[northstarfan]

Note to self: post more Trek.

[kamino_neko]

That cover's interesting - the men are really good caricatures - they're all fairly easily recognizable (well, Bill, Lafayette, Sam and Jason, anyway...not sure who the other one is...if it's Eric, the likeness is awful) - the ladies, not so much - Sookie's only recognizable because she's hanging off Bill, Tara, just because she's the only black girl in the cast, and...the last one...I can't figure who she could be - they're all so generic that without any context, she's unidentifiable.

[punishermax]

Seriously, Holy Fuck what did they do to Eric?

Also, True Blood is simultaneously the one of the worst and best shows on TV.

[afghanant.wordpress.com]

It's obviously Jessica.

[kamino_neko]

That was my first instinct, but Jessica's really slender...this character is far curvier than she should be. It could as easily be a particularly young-looking take on Arlene with that level of changes. (Hair's not right for either.)

[afghanant.wordpress.com]

Her hair looks like Jessica to me - http://thebeautybunny.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/normal_True-BloodDotNet_Season2_029.jpg

[bob_dylana]

Wtf did they do to my beloved True Blood characters?!?!

[shadowpsykie]

wait... Nero? Captain Data? ambassador spock?..... whats happening?

also mmmm sexy vampires

[northstarfan]

Star Trek: Countdown was a prequel to the reboot movie, taking place in the TNG setting post-Nemesis. So the Data spare's become a captain in the intervening years, Ambassador Spock from "Unification" is still kicking, Picard advanced to ambassador...and Worf is still getting his ass kicked on a regular basis.

[victory_or_death]

Star Trek: TNG Trope #34

Show your bad guy/protagonist is SUPER STRONG by kicking Worf's ass.

I was very happy to see DS9 get mostly away from that by showing him becoming a very able soldier and competent martial artist.

[bluefall]

"I cannot beat him. I can only kill him. And that no longer holds any interest for me."

[victory_or_death]

Well that's why I said mostly. :)

But even in that example, it was after Worf had taken on Jem'Hadar after Jem'Hadar for days on end, fight after fight. It was only then, and after Worf kept getting up, that he was beaten. It was an honorable fight and kept Worf as a Klingon who you didn't want to mess with even though he lost. IMHO, it was a good use of the trope as it was utilized within the story and one of the limited times it happened in DS9.

[icon_uk]

True Blood has Ryan Kwanten and Sam Trammel getting a lot of their kit off frequently. For that they could devote episodes to competitive kitten strangling contests and I'd forgive them...