This September is Star Trek: The Last Starship,
written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing and artist Adrián Bonilla.
Kelly and Lanzing, who attended USC for film, have written for Marvel,
DC, and other publishers. Kirk, in all his William Shatner-like glory, is headlining a new comic that will serve as the flagship title of the Star Trek line of comics from IDW Publishing.
This will be no past or glory days tales of Kirk. This will be Kirk back from the dead – as Trekkies know, the good captain died in the 1994 film Star Trek: Generations so any story, screen or comic, has taken place prior to that. This tale will take place in the modern Starfleet future. And he’s back just in time for him to watch the Starfleet he loved so dearly burn to the ground.
The cast will be populated by new characters with the legendary Kirk the only face that will be familiar to fans.
“William Shatner’s iconic performance transcends borders and Kirk is one of the great characters of the modern fiction canon,” stated Kelly. “He was also the first Star Trek character we ever wrote, a leader and warrior poet with boundless tragedy and contradiction. Now, we’re honored to be taking this character into truly uncharted, groundbreaking territory in The Last Starship…as the Federation’s greatest pioneer must face down the inferno that threatens to consume his entire legacy.”
Last Starship will feature a primary cover by Francesco Francavilla, and variants by Skyler Patridge and Michael Cho. There will also be full art variants and a foil variant. The debut issue hits Sept. 24.
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